If you need help activating Office that's pre-installed on your new PC or device, see Try, buy, or activate Office that's pre-installed on a new computer. If the problem persists, contact your PC manufacturer or the store where you bought your PC. If you paid for a product key card but didn't receive one, or if your PC was supposed to include a free offer for Office but didn't, please try following the steps under I bought Office or received an offer for Office with my new PC, but I'm seeing the Try, Buy, and Activate screen. You don't need a product key to activate Office in this case. If you only see the option to Activate and the text Office is included with this PC when you start Office, this means an Office product or Office 365 subscription was included with your new PC. You don't need a product key to start a free trial. If you didn't receive a product key with your new PC, and you see options Try, Buy, or Activate when you start Office, this likely means that your new PC shipped with an Office 365 Home trial that's good for one month. If you have already installed multiple one-time purchases of Office and activation is failing on subsequent installs, see Change your Office product key. Select I have a disc, and then select View your product key.ĭo you manage several installations of Office that are all tied to one Microsoft account? Did you lose track of which product key was used to install Office on which PC? If you answered yes to these questions, see Manage multiple one-time-purchase Office installs that use the same Microsoft account to learn how to identify which Office product key was used to install Office on each PC. Go to My Office Account, and then select Install from a disc. Here's how to view your product key on the My Office Account page: Viewing your product key on My Office Account works only for the 20 versions of the following products: View the full product key on the My Office Account page. View the last 5 characters of the product key by using the command-line method described in Manage multiple one-time-purchase Office installs that use the same Microsoft account. If you can't remember the password to your Microsoft account, see I can't remember the Microsoft account I use with Office.

You can use this account to reinstall Office from My Office Account without a product key. Look for the email address after Belongs to below the product name. View the Microsoft account that's associated with your Office install by opening Word 2016, PowerPoint 2016, or Excel 2016 and going to File > Account. Instead, you can do one of the following: For security reasons, the full product key isn't displayed within Office.

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