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Opening documents from OneDrive in Explorer triggers Office to ask for activation, why?

I've installed OneDrive for Business in order to access/sync my work files from my college's I.T system. As my college does not provide Microsoft Office for students (some do) I bought a copy of ...
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OneDrive saving problems

I'm not sure what they've changed but saving Office 2013 documents will usually default to my OneDrive folder. But for some reason, it now defaults to some web address and not my local OneDrive folder....
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"Incompatible Office products are installed on your machine" when opening Office documents or browsing OneDrive or SharePoint Site

I'm running Office 2013 Pro Plus 32-bit (MSI-based) on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. When trying to open an Excel, Word, or PowerPoint documents I get this error message: Sorry, we can't perform this ...
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Changed location of OneDrive; now Office 2013 apps crash?

My C partition is small; so I have moved OneDrive to a different partition. This works fine when I used Windows 8.1's SkyDrive app to open documents stored there; and when I used Windows Explorer. ...
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Can't sign in to Office and OneNote can't connect to SkyDrive in Windows 8.1

The OneNote issue Since I installed Windows 8.1 I can't open my OneNote notebooks stored on SkyDrive with OneNote 2013. When I try to open a notebook in OneNote, I get the following error: We can'...
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Can I use a Office Professional plus 2013 code to get skydrive pro

Can I use a Office Professional Plus 2013 Product Key to get the 20GB of skydrive storage or do I have to have a 365 subscription to get the 20GB.
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Do I need a Microsoft 365 account to use Skydrive Pro?

I am using Office 2013 (which also installed Skydrive Pro on my machine) but I haven't really understood one thing: do I need an Office 365 account to use Skydrive Pro?
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Remove "SkyDrive Pro" from context menu?

I've recently installed Microsoft Office 2013 and noticed a new SkyDrive Pro option is added to the context menu when I right click on a file or folder. I'm not using SharePoint and do not want that ...
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Get Office 2013 to open files local instead of on SkyDrive?

I've synced my SkyDrive-Account to a local Folder. For Office 2010 everything is as it should be. But Office 2013 annoys me: When I open a file in my local Folder (which is synced to SkyDrive) it ...
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