Thanks RobertRaducanu, your post was indeed very helpful.
I'm using the standalone version of the software, rather than the subscription. Like others have reported here, I wasn't seeing the option we had in previous versions to update the license key via the control panel without going thru the very unobvious
step of repair or reinstallation. Running a repair or reinstall of Office through the control panel raises the distinct possibility that one might also lose some or all of their custom settings and be set back to the defaults. That might not be so bad if
we had an easy way to transfer all one's custom office settings from one box to another. I realize Windows Easy Transfer can help with that, but it's not an Office specific tool. It's far more complex than the old tool Microsoft used to include in Office
that let one export and import their MS Office settings.
One tiny nit with your directions. I was thrown a bit at first by step 2. Eventually realized you meant to write cscript as you did in step 4, rather than "csscript" with the extra s.
On step 1, I'd like to add that selecting the windows the start button, entering "cmd" in the "search programs and files" box, and then right clicking on the cmd.exe search result will give one the option to run it as administrator.
-HP