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If you see a notice to buy, renew, or reactivate your Microsoft 365 subscription when you open Word, Excel, or any other Office application, you'll need to take action in order to keep using Office. How do I activate my product? Except for Microsoft Office Access 2007, for Microsoft Office Excel 2007, for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, and for Microsoft Office Word 2007, there are three methods to access the Office Activation Wizard. These methods are as follows: Start an Office program that has not been activated. This method to activate Microsoft office without product key is application to almost all the major versions of Microsoft office. Personally, I have tried it on Microsoft office 2010, 2013, 2016, and now on 2019 and this has worked amazingly.

You have installed Office 365 on your local machine and are excited to start working with it. And than your euphoria disappears due to the fact that you cannot activate your product. You may see one or more of the following errors. 'Microsoft Office can't find your license for this application. When Microsoft Word has stopped working or Microsoft Word not opening to opening for a document on Windows 10/8/7, don't worry. You can use methods on this page to resolve Microsoft Word has stopped working issue and use EaseUS file recovery software to repair and recover deleted Word files with ease.

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This article discusses how to troubleshoot the activation issues in Microsoft Office from Office 365. Activation fails and you receive one the following error messages:

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This issue might be caused by one of several circumstances. Follow these steps to help troubleshoot the issue. After each step, check to see whether the issue is fixed. If not, proceed to the next step.

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Step 1. Identify and fix activation issues by using the Support and Recovery Assistant for Office 365

The Support and Recovery Assistant app runs on Windows PCs and can help you identify and fix activation issues with Office 365. Office 365: Use the Support and Recovery Assistant for Office 365

Step 2. Check whether you're behind a proxy server

Are you behind a proxy server? If you're not sure, ask your administrator. If so, you (or your administrator) might have to change the proxy settings for Windows HTTP clients. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator. To do this, click Start, type cmd.exe in the search box, right-click cmd.exe in the list, and then click Run as administrator.
  2. Type the following command, and then press Enter:

Step 3. Check whether you're behind a firewall

Are you behind a firewall? If you're not sure, ask your administrator. If you're behind a firewall, it might have to be configured to enable access to the following:

  • https://officecdn.microsoft.com
  • https://ols.officeapps.live.com/olsc
  • https://activation.sls.microsoft.com
  • https://odc.officeapps.live.com
  • https://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/MicrosoftProductSecureServer.crl
  • https://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/MicrosoftRootAuthority.crl
  • https://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/MicrosoftProductSecureCommunicationsPCA.crl
  • https://www.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/MicrosoftProductSecureCommunicationsPCA.crl
  • go.microsoft.com
  • office15client.microsoft.com

Each firewall will have a different method for enable access to these URIs. Check your software's documentation for instructions or ask your administrator to do this for you.

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For more information about Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise URLs and IP addresses, see the following Microsoft article: Office 365 URLs and IP address ranges

Step 4. Check whether you have the appropriate license

  1. Sign in to the Office 365 portal.
  2. Click Settings (), and then click Office 365 settings.
  3. Locate the Assigned licenses area.
  4. If you see The latest desktop version of Office, then you have an Office subscription assigned correctly.
  5. If you don't see The latest desktop version of Office, contact your administrator or see the Office article What Office 365 business product or license do I have?

Step 5. If you previously activated an Office 2013 program on the computer, try to remove the existing product key

To manually remove existing product keys for an Office 2013 program, follow these steps:

  1. Open a Command Prompt window, type one of the following commands, and then press Enter:

    • If you're running 64-bit Windows with 32-bit Office:

    • If you're running 32-bit Windows, or running 64-bit Office with 64-bit Windows:

  2. Examine the output. Look for and locate the last five characters of the installed product key.

  3. Remove all product keys. To remove a product key, type the following command and then press Enter:

Here's an example of the output of steps 5a through 5c:

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For more information, see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

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