Windows 10: How to activate Office on used laptop

ZsuzsannaViszlay · Mar 11, 2021

Hi, I bought a used laptop, and I am not able to activate the OEM Office.

I have the key; how can I check which version is it, and whether it can be activated again?

After the key, I have these numbers: 00186266894891 X20-46821

Many thanks,

Zsuzsanna

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Brink · Mar 11, 2021

Office 365 Home and Personal Licensing and Activation Improvements Office

Since launching Office 365 to consumers, we have heard feedback from customers about the challenges in installing and using their office subscription across multiple devices. The first step in addressing this issue happened in October 2018, increasing a single user’s device limits to five (meaning they can concurrently use five devices) for Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal. Our next step in simplifying use across multiple devices will streamline the activation of a user’s device.

Beginning in May, we rolled out the following changes to customers on PCs, followed by Mac devices in July.

For customers, here’s what stays the same:

Sign in to activate Office: Users will continue to sign in to activate Office on their devices. When single sign-on is enabled, Office detects the user’s credentials and activates Office automatically.

Sign-in limits: Users will be able to install Office 365 on all their devices and be signed in to five at the same time. This includes any combination of PCs, Macs, tablets, or phones.

It's important to stay signed in while you use Office on your device. This is what keeps your Office installation activated and ready to use.

Here are the changes that you may notice:

No more prompts to deactivate: Users can install Office on a new device without being prompted to deactivate Office on another device.

Automatic sign-out: When a user reaches the sign-in limit (five devices), instead of being prompted to deactivate, the user will be automatically signed out of Office on the device where Office has been least recently used. The next time the user starts Office on that device, the user will be prompted to sign in to activate Office.

For more information on how sign-in works on devices where Office 365 is licensed, please visit this support article: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/how-sign-in-works-in-office-365-1d646e83-1585-4278-8daf-d4a...
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DaveM121 · Mar 11, 2021

Can't activate office

Hi Sue, if you downloaded form that link and your Office is showing as not activated, please try this:

Run through the Office activation troubleshooter:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/unlice...

If that does not resolve this for you, follow these steps to perform a full repair of your Office installation . . .

Open Control Panel - Programs and Features

Click Microsoft Office in the list of installed applications

At the top, click 'Change'

On the resulting dialog, click 'Repair' - choose the Online Repair, it is a comprehensive fix

That should fix any issues with your Office Installation, including activation . . .

NdMk2o1o · Mar 11, 2021

MS Office 2007 no more activated...

I contacted a support manager and the situation is:

1. With all my hardware modifications, I reached the limit number of activation (8).
2. Microsoft is no more capable to force a new activation.
3. They suggested me to uninstall and reinstall Office in order to redo an activation.

This last point is not good for me because of the time required, specially with the online updates.
May be, I have only to delete the product key into the registry but Microsoft is not able to confirm.
Do you have an idea before I try to crack it?
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Download an iso with all updates and use your serial.

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