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
    2013-06-13T05:04:26+00:00

    "Run as Administrator" is not an option with Right-Click for Office 2013 on my Windows 7 Pro machine.

    I've "repaired' and performed sfc /scannow and still can not register this software.

     

    Any help is appreciated.

     

    BTW: The account I'm using is an Administrator account.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-06-20T13:04:07+00:00

    Hi.. not sure if this will help, but I had the same issue on a brand new out-of-the-box machine from Dell. Inspiron 5521 /  Win 7 Pro

    Installed Office 2013 as usual but was getting same activation error.  I uninstalled & re-installed, but would not activate.  Finally, I used MS "Fix It" and that cleaned something out (sorry, wish I could be more specific, but it ran quickly, opened a DOS window, went through it's business and at the end of it, I re-installed Office for the third time, and the activation worked fine.

    So, if you can, try uninstalling it again.. and then run "Fix It" to see if it will clean up whatever it needs to.  I hate the fact that I can't be more specific here by being able to tell you exactly what Fix It did, but at least it was able to allow me a new clean(er) install of Office and get it to activate.

    My suspicion is that there was something set or installed on the original image that was causing it to error, as the initial installation of Office with the computer right out of the box wouldn't activate.

    Here is a link to the "Fix It" page.. read, see if any of it applies.. then if you want to run the "fix it" app (which is what I ultimately did), you can find the button for it near the end of the page.

    Good luck - report back...

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903275

    http:  / / support . Microsoft . com / kb / 903275 (remove spaces)

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-06-25T17:10:31+00:00

    "Run as Administrator" is not an option with Right-Click for Office 2013 on my Windows 7 Pro machine.

    Right click on the shortcut for one of the office programs, under the compatibility tab, there is an option to "Run as Administrator"  Click that, then start the program with that shortcut.

    Once you have made it past activation you can modify the shortcut again to remove the Run as administrator option.

    Pete

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-07-01T07:19:24+00:00

    Hi Mark,

    Thank you for the superb answer i have right click on the applicaiton and just run as administrator.

    Maddy

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