Experiences with Restore, Office and odds & ends

A rather wide ranging post, hence putting it in General support. Sorry if wrong choice.
After 3 years or so of generally using my my Pc and trying different apps, etc. and a PC that was beginning to do the odd thing, I thought it was time for a clean reinstall. I duly did this after ensuring all data was secure, which it was as mostly was in other drives. That proceeded without issues, and Windows was downloaded and installed. It did seem quicker and slightly different but I didn't really note in what way. On re-starting all was OK so I generally set it up as I wanted. Outlook (Cloud version) had been loaded automatically - didn't really want it.
Then the fun started. I tried to re-install Office apps from my subscription. Only ones I could see were Word, Powerpoint and Excel. No Publisher - major problem. I know it ends in October next year but I am not ready for the move to something else yet. First things first - load what was available. I couldn't. Whatever I tried I could not get an Install option. Exhausted what I knew, a thing or two Google suggested, all to no avail.
Then I tired Copilot, which brings me to a different but relevant topic. Copilot is miles better than any chat I've had on line or by phone. Fast and much more efficient. I spent about an hour "talking" to IT as it tried to solve the problem. In the end it gave me what I presume was a sort of private link that worked, and installed Office Enterprise edition, complete with the missing Publisher. In a way I have got a bonus.
So in summary, Restore may not appear to run as you may expect from experience but it was efficient and the resulting installation was good, apart from the usual insistence on Bing/Edge! Copilot is excellent for the more complex queries and unlike Google doesn't refer you to lengthy Videos. Straight to the point with instructions. Now on a quick access button. A few errors such as an instruction to use a button or link that MS had moved somewhere else but at least I knew what I was looking for.

Ian, Office Enterprise? You’ll need a different key, you usually install Office 365.

Can you PM me the link it gave you please?

Unfortunately no. One thing about Copilot is that if you want to keep the thread you need to either cut and paste it to eg Word or use a function in Copilot to Pages. I had no need to keep this lengthy thread so didn't. As I said it loaded everything - how do I check it is the Enterprise edition. That bit of information just appeared in one of the posts.
I was more intent on solving the problem than taking notes - sorry.

It’s OK I found it.

You can just tell Copilot to format the text so you can post it. Edit in pages is a pain in the butt. For me, it places it in a code box that I can click copy on to paste it to my keyboard. I dump text in it all the time for it to format for me for this forum.

It gets used to your requests and it creates the headings, bullet points and code boxes for me etc etc

antspants said:

Ian, Office Enterprise? You’ll need a different key, you usually install Office 365.

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That is correct and what I was trying to install but for some reason couldn't - hence Copilot involvment. I have a subscription for Office 365 so have never seen a key since I switched to that. It just seems to get authorised somehow on installation.