Hi Steven,
Please first go to Office 365 portal and check if your machine has been successfully activated. To check this, click the
Office 365 settings icon from the portal and click software.
Also, this forum focuses on questions and feedback for Windows-based Microsoft Office client. Since your query is directly related to
Office for mac, I would suggest you to post in the forum of
Office for Mac.
Please provide the complete error message there, so that our support engineer can understand your query better:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011?tab=Threads
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