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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Good morning,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m reaching out to all of my resources right now, because I have a question for which I simply can’t find a good solution. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I was hoping to be able to buy a version of Microsoft 365 Family for a friend as a gift. In the past, I used to be able to do this, either from the Microsoft store or from Amazon. I would get a key emailed to me, and I could give that key to my friend and he would install Office on his computer, and it would go on his Microsoft Account. Mine wouldn’t be affected. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I can no longer seem to do this. When I try through the Microsoft store, I sign in with my account and it wants to link the purchase to my account. When I went to try on Amazon, the digital order wanted to tie it to my account as well and didn’t give me any choice to redeem a key or transfer or give it to someone else. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Both Google and Microsoft told me that I could go through a third party, such as BestBuy or Amazon, and that is what happened when I went through Amazon. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This used to be very easy, but I wonder if now that more software like this is subscription based, things have changed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t want to give him the standalone version of the software, because he and his wife use the MS 365 family and have their own OneDrive accounts and such.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone have any other thoughts or suggestions I haven’t tried? If not, then I won’t go down this path any further in trying to purchase Office for someone else, because it will tie into my account.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jim<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>