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I’ve got several licenses for Office and Outlook but I’m not sure which one which ones I’ve used and which ones are free.

Remove MS Office 2016 activate window. Remove MS Office 2016 activation prompt when it's activated already. Asking for help, clarification, or responding to. However, despite signed in to Office 365 account with valid subscription for Office desktop apps such as Office 365 ProPlus, E3 or E4, or entered a genuine product key where the computer has been added to user’s account, individual Office 2013 app keeps prompting and asking for activation by signing in repetitively.

How can I find out which license I’ve used for which computer and how can I change the key if needed?

While you could simply try one of your Product/License Keys and see if it gets accepted, it’s not a very sophisticated approach.

The proper method to determine or change the Product Key depends on your version of Office or Outlook. However, for either version there is no need to completely reinstall Office.

Note: Office 365 installations don’t require a license key as they activate automatically when you log on to Office with your Microsoft Account. The same applies to Office 2016 and Office 2019 licenses that are linked to your Microsoft Account.

Find license keys for Office 2010, Office 2013, Office 2016 and Office 2019 via a script

Office 2010 and later include a vbs-script which will reveal the last 5 characters of your Product Key. It’s pretty safe to state that these 5 characters would already be more than enough to find out which Product Key you have used (as you should already have safely stored the full Product Key code somewhere else together with your other license information).

You can run the vbs-file in the following way;

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  1. Open a command prompt. For instance via:
    • Start-> type: cmd
  2. In the command prompt, type the following:
    • Office 2016/2019 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows
      cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice16OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
    • Office 2016/2019 (32-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
      cscript 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice16OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
    • Office 2016/2019 (64-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
      cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice16OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
    • Office 2013 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows
      cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice15OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
    • Office 2013 (32-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
      cscript 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice15OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
    • Office 2013 (64-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
      cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice15OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
    • Office 2010 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows
      cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice14OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
    • Office 2010 (32-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
      cscript 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice14OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
    • Office 2010 (64-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
      cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice14OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
  3. You should now get a screen with some license details such as the license name, type and the last 5 characters of the Product Key.


Office offers a scripted method to lookup your Product Key.

Changing the Product Key for Office 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019

Changing the Product Key for msi-based installations of Office can be done directly from the Control Panel/Apps & Features or via a command line.

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Product Keys for Click-to-Run based installations of Office can only be modified via the command line.

  • Windows 10
    Start-> Settings-> Apps & Features
  • Windows 7 and Windows 8
    Start-> Control Panel-> Uninstall a Program

Here, locate your Office application and press Modify or Change. Setup will now start with the option “Enter a Product Key” which allows you to enter a different product key.

To change the Product Key via a command line, you can use the same OSPP.VBS script as mentioned before. Instead of using the /dstatus switch, you must use the /inpkey:value switch where you should replace value for your Product Key.

Changing the Product Key for Office XP/2002 / 2003 / 2007

Changing the Product Key for Office 2007 or previous requires you to go into the Registry.

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  1. Browse to the following key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice<version>Registration
  2. Now is a good point to make a backup of that key;
    Right click on the key, choose Export… and save the file to for instance your Desktop.
  3. Expand the Registration key in the Registry and you’ll see one or more sub keys which contain a lot of characters between curly brackets: { and }
    Each sub key stands for an installed Office application.
    The proper name for this identifier string is called a “GUID”.
  4. Click on the sub key to reveal its contents in the right pane.
    The SuitName key will reveal the name of the package that you have installed. If you have multiple GUID sub keys listed, you can use this key name to determine for which installation you’ll be changing the Product Key.
  5. In the pane on the right, delete the following keys:
    • DigitalProductID
    • ProductID
  6. Close the Registry and start Outlook (or any other Office application); you’ll now be prompted to fill in your Product Key and activate Office again.


Delete the DigitalProductID and ProductID key to reset your Product Key.

Determine the Product Key with a 3rd party tool

Determining the used Product Key when using Office 2007 or previous isn’t directly supported by Microsoft. However, you can use a little program called Magic Jelly Bean Keyfinder to find out your used Product Key. Simply install and run the application to find out the Product Key (note: during the installation, there will be a prompt to also install a sponsored application which you can choose not to install).

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Another free application which you can use is Belarc Advisor. This application does a bit more thorough scan of your computer for which it generates a report that also includes license keys for several of your installed applications. If you are in a large corporate network, you might want to disconnect your network connection as it will also try to build a network map which may cause the application to appear to hang at the “checking the local network of this computer” stage.

Activation For Office 2019

Hi,

I need more details to assist you with the issue:

Does this issue occur only on this computer or on all the computers in which Office 365 Home is installed?

If the issue is specific to this computer, then you may login to ‘My account” page to deactivate the program and then try to activate it.

Verify if multiple versions of Office is installed on the computer by going to control panel, programs and features list.

Input

Try to open the applications in administrator mode, check if the issue persists:

Browse to the below mentioned location,

  • C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice15
  • or C:Program Files(x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice15,
  • Right click on the “Excel.exe” or “Winword.exe” and click on “Run as Administrator”.

Let us know the result.

Thank you.

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