Change Product Key Office 2013 Home and Business

Anonymous
2013-03-07T14:44:07+00:00
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?

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Anonymous
2016-06-08T19:59:14+00:00

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.

Thanks,

Michelle V.

The Office Team

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-04-23T08:37:56+00:00

    @TJ1240:

    I did as you described.

    But after I entered the product-key and loged in with our Microsoft-account

    it asked me to select one of our Office-licenses from a list.

    I can't see which of them belongs to the correct product-key (see images below)

    Office is installing in the Background (100%) - ready, box disappeared

    Enter product key

    add this key to an account (it was already added, but ok ...)

    activate Office - enter email-address

    Login with Microsoft-account

    select your product from the list

    we've got about 50 Office-products unter this account (most of them home+business)

    Any idea?

    After this I uninstalled Office, rebooted, installed it from a downloaded DVD-Image.

    I entered the product-key, logged in and got the same list "select your product" (see above)

    So I tryed to change the product-key with ospp.vbs - and got the same error "SKU is not found"

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-04-22T16:04:22+00:00
    • We have got about 50 licenses of Office 2013 home&business under the same Microsoft-account.
    • The product-keys, that are displayed at office.com/Setup "Install from a disk - view your product key" are different to the product-keys on the product-key-cards
    • I installed any of the 50 Office-licenses from office.com/Setup and tryed to change the product-key
    • There is no option to change the product-key of Office 2013 home&business in the control-panel "program and features" or in Word/Excel "file - account"
    • The commandline-Program "cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:9NJHW-...."

    displays the following error:

    Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host, Version 5.8

    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

    ---Processing--------------------------

    ---------------------------------------

    ERROR CODE: 0xC004F069

    ERROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the product SKU

    is not found.

    ---------------------------------------

    ---Exiting-----------------------------

    So Microsoft - is there a way to install Office 2013 home&business with the correct product-key, if I needed to reinstall one of our computers?

    Have you tried the steps below? It doesn't give you the option to change the product key until the very last steps.

    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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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-22T13:11:25+00:00
    • We have got about 50 licenses of Office 2013 home&business under the same Microsoft-account.
    • The product-keys, that are displayed at office.com/Setup "Install from a disk - view your product key" are different to the product-keys on the product-key-cards
    • I installed any of the 50 Office-licenses from office.com/Setup and tryed to change the product-key
    • There is no option to change the product-key of Office 2013 home&business in the control-panel "program and features" or in Word/Excel "file - account"
    • The commandline-Program "cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:9NJHW-...."

    displays the following error:

    Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host, Version 5.8

    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

    ---Processing--------------------------

    ---------------------------------------

    ERROR CODE: 0xC004F069

    ERROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the product SKU

    is not found.

    ---------------------------------------

    ---Exiting-----------------------------

    So Microsoft - is there a way to install Office 2013 home&business with the correct product-key, if I needed to reinstall one of our computers?

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-04-18T14:31:28+00:00

    Hi Markus,

    Any time you transfer the software to a new computer, you must remove the software from the prior computer and you may not retain any copies.

    Thank you.

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