Change Product Key Office 2013 Home and Business

This is turning out to be way too complicated... All you have to do is the following:

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Select Programs and Features (or Add/Remove Programs)
3. Find whatever 2013 installation you are dealing with, and select Change
4. You get 4 options, the last one being Enter a Product Key.  Select this one and hit next.
5. Put in your key
6. Eat Cake & Ice Cream

• Click on the button to open the Start Menu. Now, click on the Control Paneland then click on Programs (Uninstall a program), and finally click on Program and Features.

(Windows XP users: Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs.)

• From the list of installed programs, find Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 (or your installed version of Office 2010 or Office 2013) or Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2010 (or your installed version of Visio 2010), which ever’s key you want to change, select it and then click on Change.
• From the newly opened dialog box, select the Enter a Product Key option, and then click Continue.
• Type your new product key and check the option that says Attempt to automatically activate my product online to automatically activate your Office 2013 or Office 2010 suite. Now click on Continue and then on Install Now.

The versions of Office 2013 I have used at work and at home didn't provide the option to Enter a Product Key after clicking on Change.  The versions I have at work didn't even provide a Change button (installed on Win 7 Pro).  They simply had the option to remove.  I'd attach a picture, but the only available options are Quick Repair and Online Repair for my 2013 Professional after clicking on Change (installed on Win 8 Pro).  The commands I listed above worked for me, though. 

What happened??!!! i pressed quick repair and the trial or whatever it was vanished from my programme list and I have to give payment info again in the microsft office section so that i can download it again. What the **** is going on here?

the 64 bit systems do not have a ospp.vbs file

the path for the office in the 64 bit folder is different as well

"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office15\

a number of files are in the subfolders of this directory which begin with OSPP

what is the correct ospp file to edit for the key change?

I hit this issue as well, use the Program Files (x86) directory:

cd "\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15"

Then you can run the cscript ospp.vbs options as follows:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus

Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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

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SKU ID: cd256150-a898-441f-aac0-9f8f33390e45

LICENSE NAME: Office 15, OfficeHomeBusinessR_Retail edition

LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 15, RETAIL channel

BETA EXPIRATION: 1/01/1601

LICENSE STATUS:  ---OOB_GRACE---

ERROR CODE: 0x4004F00C

ERROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the application

is running within the valid grace period.

REMAINING GRACE: 27 days  (38881 minute(s) before expiring)

Last 5 characters of installed product key: XXXXX

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

Then update the Key (note I have put XXXX in instead of showing my actual key):

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:XXXXX-

XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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

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<Product key installation successful>

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

Hope that helps.  I had to do this after I cloned a fresh system before activating Office.  Didn't have some of the "change key" options others have mentioned.

all these steps worked great here, thank you for sharing - i did NOT clone a fresh sys not sure IF this is needed? but dont really know how, so

i rebooted PC

and i STILL get the error code  (0x4004f00d) when opening a "word" doc and have the 30 day countdown to activate...

way too much bother for me...i bought the PC with office 2013 installed and i was given the correct key from what i have seen on the steps taken and now?? im simply going to downgrade to another Office..

MS you have disappointed this customer, HUGE in this matter..i am NOT falling into this trap of buying another key for this nonsense... and im DONE with wasting MY time reading and reading and troubleshooting (WASTE of TIME and effort) if i had the CD? id smash it to pieces..good thing i don't  ;) rant over.. gl too all

Reija, I feel your pain... 

Here is how to actually fix the issue, if you haven't already...

Open up a Command Prompt (Start>CMD>Enter)

Type in:

If you 64bit Office with 64bit Operating System:

cd "\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 15"

Then

cscript ocpp.vbs /dstatus

Then

Look at the Last 5 characters of the installed product key:

Then

cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:(the last 5 characters of the product key above)

Here's how to do it on a 32bit Office:

cd "\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office 15"

Then

cscript ocpp.vbs /dstatus

Then

Look at the Last 5 characters of the installed product key:

Then

cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:(the last 5 characters of the product key above)

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Open up outlook, you should get a prompt to login to your Microsoft account.  Login and select the key that you are actually wanting to use.

This seems to be the ticket, but ocpp.vbs does not seem to exist in /office15 32-bit. There is ospp.vbs, which I'm using for both.

I think this works. Thank you. Note: I am not OP

this is also true of 64 bit... as was the case with mine...changed to ospp to get "processing"