Change Product Key Office 2013 Home and Business

Anonymous
2013-03-07T14:44:07+00:00
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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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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
    2013-04-23T15:02:30+00:00

    Hi,

    Please provide us more information to help you better.

    1.On how many computers you have installed the Office 2013?

    2.Did you get this license from your company?

    Reply with these information along with the error message (If any) to help you better.

    You may also check this link and see if it helps:

    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/activate-office-2013-programs-HA102819770.aspx

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-04-23T15:39:10+00:00

    @Guruprasad

    It was 1 computer with a single download file.  It was the Change Product Key link in the Office Account settings that was missing.  There were no errors.  I removed the program and copied over an ISO that I had on our network to install with and it worked perfectly.  Not sure what happened there, but all is well now.

    Thank you for your response!

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-05-01T16:17:24+00:00

    We also need to change our product key. In our situation, we have 5 computers.

    We bought a separate LEGAL license for each computer.

    We installed using the process for the first four computers and ran into no problems.

    When we got to the fifth, this particular install must have been placed somewhere different in the list because we get an activation error.

    There is literally no way to label the five different downloads in our account so that we can tell which download goes with which key, so I will either have to try all five in the list again until I find the one that matches this key, or the easier way is to just..

    CHANGE THE PRODUCT KEY ON THE COMPUTER.

    Please tell us how we change the product key on the computer.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-05-02T01:18:22+00:00

    It can be done via the command line.  Open up a Command Prompt (Press the Windows Button and type CMD or navigate to All Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt).  Then you just need to use the command below that matches your OS.

    For 32 bit Windows:

    cscript "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS" /inpkey:yourkeygoeshere 

    For 64 bit Windows (assuming you are using 32 bit Office):

    cscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS" /inpkey:yourkeygoeshere

    Obviously, you need to replace yourkeygoeshere with your product key.

    Note:  If you are installing a 64 bit version of Office on 64 bit Windows, the command for 32 bit Windows should be used (or just delete the (x86) part since it won't be installing to the C:\Program Files (x86)\ directory).

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