Getting error 0x8007005 Office 2013 H&B activation key

Anonymous
2013-02-17T10:21:11+00:00

MS Office 2013 guru's

Does anyone have the fix to the following:  Activation for Office 2013 Excel, Word etc.

 How do you want to activate your software?

  • I want to activate the software over the internet. (recommended)

Here is the error: Microsoft Excel

We're sorry, something went wrong and we can't do this for you right now. Please try again later. (0x80070005)

thanks

David

Microsoft 365 and Office | Excel | For home | Windows

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Anonymous
2013-04-18T11:24:54+00:00

Hi David,

In case you haven't already found the solution right click on Excel 2013 (or any other Office 2013 application) and select 'Run as Administrator' then follow the steps to activate online

Regards

Mark

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-02-18T10:03:09+00:00

    Hi Lozano,

    Thank you for contacting Microsoft community. We are glad to assist you with your concern.

    As per the description provided, it looks like you are having issues with activating Office 2013 and receive an error message.

    Before we proceed I would require some more information to assist you better.

    1. Do you have any previous version of Office installed on the computer?
    2. Is the Computer connected to Internet using a proxy server?

    To resolve the issue let us try the following steps and verify the results.

    Step 1:

    Restart the computer and then try activating Office 2013.

    Step 2:

    Repair Office 2013 installation and then try activating Office and check if it helps:

    http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/project-help/repair-or-remove-office-HA010357402.aspx

    Step 2:

    Restart the system in Windows 7 clean boot and try activating Office 2013.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

    Note: Make sure to restart the system back to Normal mode after troubleshooting.

    You may also refer to the following link ‘Activate Office 2013 programs’ and check if it helps:

    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/activate-office-2013-programs-HA102819770.aspx

    I hope this fixes the issue. If not, reply and I will be happy to assist you further.

    Thank you

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-04-24T14:44:02+00:00

    For the record... this worked like a charm!  Thanks for the post.  

    However, it's ridiculous that this is the fix, user's should be able to register their Office product without admin permissions.  Also, all the KB articles don't mention this as an action to take.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-04-26T00:31:34+00:00

    For the record... this worked like a charm!  Thanks for the post.  

    However, it's ridiculous that this is the fix, user's should be able to register their Office product without admin permissions.  Also, all the KB articles don't mention this as an action to take.

    I agree particularly considering that the user is a local administrator.    This issue does not occur when logged on as local or domain Administrator or if UAC is disabled.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-05-05T18:44:27+00:00

    This worked for me, too.  Thank you.

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