Windows 10: Lost Office 2016 Product Key after Win10 reiinstall

I had to reinstall Win10 Pro on my laptop after an upgrade had failed.

I purchased Office 2016 and have the Order Number but I do not have the Product Key. The order link is no longer valid.


What are my options?


Thanks.

:)

 

Office 365 or Office 2016

Under info for the new office listing on My Visual Studio it states.

Office Professional Plus 2016 (x86 and x64) - (Multiple Languages)
To obtain the product, follow these steps:

Step 1: Get your product key by clicking the ‘Get key’ button on the right.

Step 2: Go to the Office website by clicking the ‘Get it now’ button.

Step 3: Enter your 25-character product key and continue as directed on the site.

Released: 9/23/2015

And for the discontinued it states.

Office Professional Plus 2016 (Discontinued)
Info
Keys
Office Professional Plus 2016 (x86 and x64) - DVD (English)
No additional details are available for this file.

Released: 9/22/2015
SHA1: 213A8A0F8849516704101CB6C49F6A027B0D6D5F
File name: en_office_professional_plus_2016_x86_x64_dvd_6962141.iso

I'm thinking option one is going to be my only option. I'm fine with that as long as I can get Outlook to work with my ISP's pop3 e-mail. Last time I tried that with the new 2016 install I could not get it to work, no way no how. All the same settings that work with the ISO install?

EDIT: I should mention, for me as far as I know, neither of these options are a subscription. They use two different keys but they are perpetual one time activation licenses. I only ran the new download briefly though, as I could not get outlook to work. I bailed and went back to what works.

 

Office Pro Plus 2016 - Win7 transfer to Win10 licence failure

Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2016 has been running for about 2 years under Win7 (Dell laptop x64)

I now wish to transfer Office Pro Plus 2016 to a new Win10 system (Dell Inspiron 17 3793 laptop; supplied with multiple Office 365 versions - and since all deleted)

I have uninstalled Office Pro Plus 2016 and afterwards installed it on the Win 10 laptop - but the product key is rejected: "This product cannot be activated because the product key is not valid" (after running Microsoft's Activation Troubleshooter for Office 2019 & Office 2016: officeact.diagcab and launching Word 2016)

I have also tried running cscript ospp.vbs /act (as suggested in Kari's 'Office License Management Tool') but see:

... ERROR CODE: 0xC004C003
ERROR DESCRIPTION: The activation server determined the specified product key has been blocked.
NOTICE: A KB article has been detected for activation failure: 0xC004C003
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2870357#Error0xC004C003

The recommended URL generates "Sorry, page not found"

So, suggestions for a possible remedy welcome.

Dave.

 

Product Key for Office Professional Plus 2016

Who gave you the disk for Office Professional Plus 2016?

You never bought it as it is licensed through Volume Licensing and not for private use.

So there is no way to get the product key unless you still work for the company where you got the disk from.

Microsoft Office 2016 - Wikipedia

Five traditional editions of Office 2016 were released for Windows:

• Home & Student: This retail suite includes the core applications only.[23]
• Home & Business: This retail suite includes the core applications and
  
  Outlook.[23]
• Standard: This suite, only available through
  volume licensing channels, includes the core applications, as well as Outlook and
  
  Publisher.[25]
• Professional: This retail suite includes the core applications, as well as Outlook, Publisher and
  
  Access.[23]
• Professional Plus: This suite, only available through volume licensing channels

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You may be interested in using either of these two free Office Suites which are compatible with Windows.

Open Office:

Apache OpenOffice - Official Site - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

Libre Office:

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