Registering Excel on iPad, when iTunes and Microsoft account emails differ?

Question

I have an Office 365 Home Premium subscription, and so I wish to use the subscription-based features of Excel for iPad.

The problem is that I use different email addresses for my iTunes and Office 365 subscriptions.

This is the series of steps I've followed:

1. Install Excel for iPad
2. Run Excel for iPad
3. Select "Buy Office 365 Home"
4. Select the tiny "I Already Have a Subscription"
5. Enter my iTunes Store password, for my iTunes email address

I then get the error message:

"No Subscription
This Apple ID doesn't have a paid Office 365 subscription."

For my two different email addresses, the domain names are the same, but the account names are specific to the two products - as an anti-spam measure, and to make it easier to detect phishing messages.

I considered changing my Apple email address to be my Microsoft one, or my Microsoft email address to be my Apple one. But in both cases, I would have a large number of login details to change, on multiple programs on multiple devices.

Are there any other alternative solutions, such as adding a second email address to either my iTunes or Microsoft accounts?

Answer 1

After days of looking, I've found the answer, via Having Problems Activating Office for iPad? Here’s a Simple Solution

Briefly:

• Instead of saying “I already have a subscription”, choose the Read-only option
• Then click on the Activate button at lower-left
• Then you have an option to activate by using your Microsoft Office 365 account credentials

For me, doing this in Excel also activated my Word and PowerPoint iOS apps.

Answer 2

Hey I had the same issue with my computer. I wasted my time on it for

many days but finally I got a solution from this link

http://www.microsoftliveassist.com/activation-problems-with-office-365/