Microsoft Office Key Finder

Due to this very reason serial numbers are allotted to each software copy which a person can purchase.

Microsoft office key finder. In order to install. If you re planning on doing a reinstall of windows but can t find your product key you re in luck because it s stored in the windows registry. Content provided by microsoft applies to.

For more info about an office 365 subscription see manage your office 365 subscription purchased through a third party. Luckily we re here to help. Commercial programs need to be protected in order to eliminate theft and fraud.

Office 365 office 2019 office 2016 office 2013 more many tasks for office products don t require a product key because your microsoft account takes care of them instead. If you re sure that you no longer have the physical product key for your version of microsoft office or you ve lost or deleted the email receipt that included the product key in it you might as you read in the introduction above be able to extract the key from the registry using a key finder tool. If you bought your microsoft software from a third party website you ll need to get download and product key info from them.

It s just not easy to find and it s impossible to read without some help. This means that those product key finder programs aren t quite as helpful as they used to be. Unfortunately microsoft changed how they handled microsoft office product keys beginning with office 2013 storing only part of the product key on your local computer.

As you can see in the screenshot above the product id is stored in the registry but is in a binary format that can t be read by. Microsoft office 2010 word. Those serial numbers form a product key which works as a protection against unauthorized copying and installation.