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?

EXACT same issue here. This should take me 30 min to install 5 copies to 5 computers but NOPE I get to spend all afternoon trying to do this after buying 5 copies.

NOPE it requires to login to the associated email account, where it now lists all the previous installs with no indication of which one to choose, unless I try all 5 until I get it right. This is extra fun when my clients call me when this suite inevitably de-activates itself (yes this has happened multiple times too)

Recently I've had to deal with this issue too - mistakenly installed Office2013 with a used Product Key. After looking through half of these answers I gave up and fixed the problem myself - most people who say "this is easy, just change it in control panel" are probably not even talking about the same product - they are most likely using the corporate version of Office 2013, instead of Office 2013 Home and Business. If they'd taken the time to read some of the previous posts they'd have realised 20 other people have already posted the exact same thing, now that's 20 more unhelpful posts we have to look through before finding a useful one. The suggestions to use the command line may be likely to work, but I feel that there's got to be a simpler way to do this. I'm an IT professional and comfortable with using the command line, but not everyone would be. I did look through more posts later and found that the "online repair" posts may hold promise, but by that time I had already fixed the problem and didn't need to try it. I think my solution to this is probably the simplest and easiest method. Just re-install Office 2013 without uninstalling - using the same media or file you used in the first place. It would ask you for the product key again - this time enter the correct product key. The install would then continue but notice that it completes very quickly compared to the first time you installed it. After it finishes, if your new product key is valid then it will even activate itself automatically. And don't worry about having 2 installs as it only updates the first install rather than duplicating it.

Change Product Key Office 2013 Home and Business

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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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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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2015-06-02T21:07:51+00:00

EXACT same issue here. This should take me 30 min to install 5 copies to 5 computers but NOPE I get to spend all afternoon trying to do this after buying 5 copies.
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2015-06-02T21:11:34+00:00

NOPE it requires to login to the associated email account, where it now lists all the previous installs with no indication of which one to choose, unless I try all 5 until I get it right. This is extra fun when my clients call me when this suite inevitably de-activates itself (yes this has happened multiple times too)
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2015-09-30T15:53:01+00:00

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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2015-10-16T08:49:02+00:00

Recently I've had to deal with this issue too - mistakenly installed Office2013 with a used Product Key.

After looking through half of these answers I gave up and fixed the problem myself - most people who say "this is easy, just change it in control panel" are probably not even talking about the same product - they are most likely using the corporate version of Office 2013, instead of Office 2013 Home and Business. If they'd taken the time to read some of the previous posts they'd have realised 20 other people have already posted the exact same thing, now that's 20 more unhelpful posts we have to look through before finding a useful one.

The suggestions to use the command line may be likely to work, but I feel that there's got to be a simpler way to do this. I'm an IT professional and comfortable with using the command line, but not everyone would be.

I did look through more posts later and found that the "online repair" posts may hold promise, but by that time I had already fixed the problem and didn't need to try it.

I think my solution to this is probably the simplest and easiest method.

Just re-install Office 2013 without uninstalling - using the same media or file you used in the first place. It would ask you for the product key again - this time enter the correct product key.

The install would then continue but notice that it completes very quickly compared to the first time you installed it.

After it finishes, if your new product key is valid then it will even activate itself automatically.

And don't worry about having 2 installs as it only updates the first install rather than duplicating it.
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