Please check out Change<br> your Office license or product key for the latest information on this topic. I need to change the product key on a new installation of Office 2013 Home and Business. What is the procedure?

I was setting up several computers for 1 location. I have Microsoft Office 2013 licenses purchased for each machine. I set up the first one then made an image of the drive and copied to the other computers. This obviously created conflicts with the Microsoft Office 2013 product keys. All I needed to do was change the product key for each machine to match the license that was purchased for that specific machine. This is how I had to accomplish this. Hope this helps anyone in a similar situation. Open Control Panel Open Programs and Features Highlight Microsoft Office 2013 Click Change Select Online Repair Click Repair Click Repair in the pop up box After it is done repairing Close the Control Panel Down in the system tray should be an Office 2013 logo. When you click on it, I says "Office is installing in the background (xx%) You can use your programs now, but please don't go offline or restart your computer." Wait for the install to complete and this box disappears. Start any Office program A "Activate Office" box will pop up Midway down Click "Enter a product key instead" Enter your new product key Click Install. To check that it was done correctly, Open any Office program. Go to File. Click Account. In the window to the right it should say "Product Activated"

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I just went through this. I found that (it appears anyway) that as long as the product has not yet been activated, if you do Change... for Microsoft Office 2013 in Control Panel > Programs and Features, and then do an Online Repair, an option is presented for changing the product key. It was just a small link underneath a button that I think said "No thanks, just change the product key" or just "Change the product key," I can't remember for sure. Anyway, it worked. It took quite a while for the install to finish (about 30-35 minutes I'd guess), but it is all working. I then had to activate over the phone because this copy of software had been used on another computer accidentally and then was uninstalled, but other than that everything seems to be running perfect. Hope this helps. Thanks. Worked for me. Just went into Control Panel --> Programs and Features --> Right click MSO 2013 --> Change --> Last option says "Change your product key" --> Entered new key --> Ready to use in 5 mins ! Thanks again ! :) Edit: Had to activate once (did the Internet activation).

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I need to change the product key on a new installation of Office 2013 Home and Business. What is the procedure?

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Hi everyone,

First off, on behalf of the Office team, thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Office community and providing solutions. We have published an article that specifically addresses this question: Change your Office product key.

Hope you'll find this helpful.

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2014-01-16T21:10:07+00:00

I was setting up several computers for 1 location. I have Microsoft Office 2013 licenses purchased for each machine. I set up the first one then made an image of the drive and copied to the other computers. This obviously created conflicts with the Microsoft Office 2013 product keys. All I needed to do was change the product key for each machine to match the license that was purchased for that specific machine. This is how I had to accomplish this. Hope this helps anyone in a similar situation.

Open Control Panel

Open Programs and Features

Highlight Microsoft Office 2013

Click Change

Select Online Repair

Click Repair

Click Repair in the pop up box

After it is done repairing

Close the Control Panel

Down in the system tray should be an Office 2013 logo. When you click on it, I says "Office is installing in the background (xx%) You can use your programs now, but please don't go offline or restart your computer."

Wait for the install to complete and this box disappears.

Start any Office program

A "Activate Office" box will pop up

Midway down Click "Enter a product key instead"

Enter your new product key

Click Install.

To check that it was done correctly, Open any Office program. Go to File. Click Account. In the window to the right it should say "Product Activated"
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2014-01-08T15:04:30+00:00

How To Replace Damaged Office 2013 Product Key(Not Working )
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2013-12-21T06:38:56+00:00

I just went through this.

I found that (it appears anyway) that as long as the product has not yet been activated, if you do Change... for Microsoft Office 2013 in Control Panel > Programs and Features, and then do an Online Repair, an option is presented for changing the product key. It was just a small link underneath a button that I think said "No thanks, just change the product key" or just "Change the product key," I can't remember for sure.

Anyway, it worked. It took quite a while for the install to finish (about 30-35 minutes I'd guess), but it is all working. I then had to activate over the phone because this copy of software had been used on another computer accidentally and then was uninstalled, but other than that everything seems to be running perfect.

Hope this helps.

Thanks. Worked for me. Just went into Control Panel --> Programs and Features --> Right click MSO 2013 --> Change --> Last option says "Change your product key" --> Entered new key --> Ready to use in 5 mins !

Thanks again ! :)

Edit: Had to activate once (did the Internet activation).
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