Microsoft 365 and Office | Install, redeem, activate | For home | Windows
Processes in Microsoft 365 for setting up Office apps, redeeming product keys, and activating licenses.
right click> run as admin and activate
Office 365 Activation Problem (0x80070005)
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Anonymous
I just purchased a one month subscription for Office 365 Home Premium for 5 PCs and installed on my PC (Alienware M17XR4 Windows 7). Now whenever I try to activate my Office it fails and the error shown is - "We're sorry, something went wrong and we can't do this for you right now. Please try again later. ( 0x80070005 )".
I still have about 25 days' subscription left.
Please tell how I can activate this.
Microsoft 365 and Office | Install, redeem, activate | For home | Windows
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This worked for me
"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"
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Anonymous
2015-04-30T11:42:44+00:00 Hello Franklin,
Welcome to Microsoft Community and thank you for posting your query.
What happens when you try to activate Office?
Do you receive any error message?
You may refer to the following link which provides information on how to activate Office 365 or Office 2013.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/activate-office-2013-programs-HA102819770.aspx
I hope the above information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance.
Thank you.
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Anonymous
2015-04-30T11:28:23+00:00 I am unable to activate office 2013.
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Anonymous
2015-03-30T03:09:06+00:00 Well, well, well: I reinstalled Office 365 twice over the last 24 hours and was still stuck with the message that something was not right with the MS servers so I could not activate my software. Funny thing is, of course, I had to be online, connected to MS and so on to download and install the wretched stuff.
No matter, the right click, run as administrator solved the problem.