IWork won't accept serial number for access to program.

My entire iWork software package is throwing back my serial number as "invalid". I have completed all upgrades and I still can't get into them. What now?

Welcome to the discussions, Tuscany22.
One thing that helped users in the past is to double check your zeros and capital o's.

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