Installing MS Office 2013, whew!

I wanted to share an experience I had today regarding MS Office in case it helps someone else... 
I got my new E440 on about April 2nd. I didn't unbox it until the 3rd. I can tell by the calendar in the configuration history shown in the Lenovo Solution Center. I didn't really get going until the 4th. Anyway, I activated the MS Office trial many days later. Then, my laptop seemed to have gotten screwed up somehow (not by the MS Office activation, but by something else). I hadn't really done much with it, so yesterday, I ended up restoring back to the restore point created on 4/3. When I tried to use MS Office again, it wouldn't re-activate - just nothing happened when I clicked on it. I looked in the configuration history and had "System Events" of APPCRASH regarding firstrun.exe. I searched for this file and it as located in one of the MS Office folders. So I figured something got messed up because I had already activated the trial, and then restored back to earlier in time before I had activated it. So today I uninstalled it and purchased MS Office Professional online. Then the fun really started...
When I installed "MS Office 2013 Professional", I kept seeing MS Office 365... I got an email from MS regarding Office 365. I looked online to see how I could find out what version I was running and, lo and behold, it said Office 365. But on the MS web site after I entered my key code, the confirmation said Office Professional (I had captured a screen print)...  So I fired off any angry email to the site where I purchased Professional thinking they had charged me for Professional but provided Office 365. I couldn't talk to them because they were closed for the day.
Then, I called Microsoft. And worked with them for almost THREE HOURS to resolve the issue. They confirmed the key code was for Professional. They were great. Somehow, even though I uninstalled the trial version, the Office 365 subscription was still attached to my MS account. It took him a long time to get rid of it. For a while, I had both Professional AND 365 attached to my account.
All is good now, but wow, it was a long haul.
Now I guess I'll start tranferring my files over to the new laptop.

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