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
    2013-05-30T20:20:48+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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-05-21T19:39:48+00:00

    Yes that is correct. Sorry I didn't update the 32bit with the correct vbs name. I'm glad it worked for you!

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-05-21T19:34:51+00:00

    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)

    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

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