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1. #How to get free product key for office 365 how to#
2. #How to get free product key for office 365 install#
3. #How to get free product key for office 365 registration#

#How to get free product key for office 365 how to#

Much easier to get it right now than to try and figure out how to change it later! It’s a tricky task because it’s completely random, so I recommend you double and even triple-check what you entered before proceeding.Īlso double check that you have the correct country, region and language set for the Office 365 install. You can see I’ve started typing in my own 25-character product key. Once you’re logged in to the correct account, click the orange “ Next” button and you’ll get to the tricky part: Fortunately, because I tried a bunch of other paths and was frustrated time and again. This page is really for people who don’t have Office 365 yet, but it turns out to be the fastest and easiest way to enter an Office Product Key too. Log in to your account and here’s what you’ll see: You’d think that clicking on “ Activate” would be the best way to proceed, but it’s actually 10x faster and easier to simply log in to your Office 365 (typically Microsoft Live) account on to proceed. Problem was, I did indeed have a 25-character product key for a year of Office 365. Instead of being able to start writing a letter, I saw this: I encountered the same thing recently when I started up Microsoft Word on my macOS system. Usually problems arise because you need to renew your subscription, but sometimes you might have picked up a new computer or otherwise received a new product key, at which point, yeah, it’s a bit baffling to figure out how to apply it. This started with anti-virus programs on the Windows PC side where they’re only useful if the company keeps updating the virus definitions even long after you’ve paid and installed their program.īig vendors have jumped on that bandwagon with zeal: better to earn $50/yr forever than $100 one time and lose you as a customer for a decade! As Microsoft has evolved its Microsoft Office product and migrated features into the so-called “cloud” with a Web-browser based document storage and editing capability - renaming it Office 365 along the way - the company has also moved from a “buy” to a “subscribe” model, and that’s what you’re seeing. In the last few years, however, the ownership model has changed significantly with computer software and now we are paying for a subscription service, a lower fee that gains us access to the program so long as we keep paying it.

#How to get free product key for office 365 registration#

That was still built around the basic concept of you buying ownership of the software: one you’d entered the registration code you were able to use that program forever if you so desired.

#How to get free product key for office 365 install#

Then we added product keys because people would buy one copy of a program and install it on dozens of systems, friend’s computers, school, etc. It used to be simple in software land: You bought a program, installed it and you were done.