Problems after update of Word for mac

Hi. I updated my software for WORD for mac. After updating I am asked to enter a valid product key which I do not hve since the MAc came with the software. Whatr to do?

Macs do not come with Word installed. Where did you get this Mac from?

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Hello. On my Macbook air late 2013 model I am having a problem where microsoft word for mac just stops working for soon reason and at the screen where the document should be is just gray and does not even display the document. Does anybody have a fix?

Hello. On my MacBook Air late 2013 model I am having a problem with Microsoft office word for Mac where the window for the document becomes all gray and I can not see anything that I have typed or any menus for it and also windows will sometimes dissapear and I am having truble getting them back. If anyone has anyideas of what is going on or could even help me thank you.

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Thing is that my laptop just got back from Apple for repairs and they replaced everything but the display - including the hard drive.
So not only do I have plenty of hard drive space, but it should be virus and error free otherwise.
I have only installed a few programs and redownloaded some of my files from places like Dropbox, but otherwise is essentially a new system.
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creating a new file when it crashed. I got no error, the keyboard just stopped working (to type). I also cannot even get Word > Preferences to even open,
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I did a Google search and under the Microsoft communities two suggestions to that person were that there may be multiple copies installed -
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I've found that Mac just doesn't play nice with some programs at all.
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I 'Saved As' a Word for Mac " .docm "
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- and the documents appear normal (though I had to switch one to 'Portrait' as it for some reason wanted to display in landsacpe.
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