Whenyou install Office Professional Plus, Visio Professional, or Project Professional through your employer's Workplace Discount Program (formerly known as Home Use Program) benefit, you enter your product key after you install your product.
If you see a Let's get started screen with options to try, buy, or activate Office, this means that Office is installed on your new PC as a 1-month trial of Microsoft 365 Family. You won't receive a product key from your PC manufacturer unless you paid for an Office product key card. Instead, you can start a trial of Microsoft 365 Family, or buy Office.
If you paid for an Office product to be included on your new Windows PC, a digital product key is transmitted to your PC when you activate Windows. You won't receive a printed product key. Instead, you'll see a message similar to the following when you start Word (or any Office app).
If you bought an Office product key card, you might need to carefully scratch off a silver foil coating on the back of your product key card to reveal your product key. If you damage the key while scratching off the foil coating, see I lost or damaged my product key.
If you bought Office Professional Plus, Visio Professional, or Project Professional through your employer's Microsoft Workplace Discount Program benefit, you'll need your product key to install Office on a PC. To locate your product key online, see Get your Workplace Discount Program product key.
If Office came pre-installed on your new device, and you see a yellow or red banner in an Office app that says PRODUCT NOTICE Most of the features of have been disabled because it hasn't been activated, you must start a new Microsoft 365 Family trial, sign in with a Microsoft account that's associated with Office, or buy Office. For help, see Activate Office.
No, you don't. Just go to the Microsoft account, Services & subscriptions page and sign in using the Microsoft account that you used to buy Office. We can help if you forgot your Microsoft account or password.
You can also switch your Office license if you buy a different version of Office. For example, if you have Office Home & Business and decide to subscribe to Microsoft 365, you can switch your existing install from Office Home & Business to Microsoft 365. To learn how, see Switch your Office license.
Instead, for Microsoft 365, Office 2021, Office 2019 and Office 2016, you can view the Microsoft account that Office belongs to. This account takes the place of your product key and can be used to reinstall Office from the Microsoft account, Services & subscriptions page and to activate Office.
To view the Microsoft account that Office belongs to, open a document in Word (or any Office app) and go to File > Account. Look for the email address after Belongs to below the product name.
No, your product key isn't displayed online (see exception for Workplace Discount Program below). You should sign in to your Microsoft account dashboard using the Microsoft account that you used to buy and download this version of Office.
If you bought an older version of Office Professional Plus, Visio Professional, or Project Professional through your employer's Workplace Discount Program benefit, you can view your product key online on your Order Details page. For help, see Get your Workplace Discount Program product key.
If you bought Office Home & Student, Office Home & Business, Office Professional, or individual Office apps from the Microsoft Store and you haven't installed them yet, you can also view their product keys and install them from the Microsoft Store.
Locate the Office one-time purchase or individual Office app, and then select Install Office to view your product key (this doesn't actually install Office). Note that this product key won't match the product key shown in the Microsoft account, Services & subscriptions page. This is normal.
This is normal. The Office product key shown on the Microsoft account, Services & subscriptions page will always be different than the product key that's shown on a product key card or email receipt. They are two different types of keys, even though they use the same format.
To buy a brand new copy of Office, or start a new Microsoft 365 subscription, you can buy an Office product key card from a retailer. You can redeem your key at to set up your Microsoft account and install Office. You can also buy a digital download directly from the Microsoft Store at
www.microsoftstore.com. You'll receive a product key if you buy a one-time purchase Office or individual Office apps, but you won't need or receive a product key for Microsoft 365.
To renew your Microsoft 365 subscription, you can buy an Microsoft 365 product key card from a retailer and redeem the key at You can also renew your subscription online, without a product key, at -renew-your-office-365-subscription.
If Office is prompting you for a product key, and you want to buy a product key to activate Office, it's better to uninstall your current version of Office and then buy and install a new version of Office from the Microsoft Store. This way you can be sure that Office will activate successfully.
If you're shopping for Office product keys elsewhere, we recommend that you review our tips for safer shopping to make sure you're buying genuine Microsoft software. Be sure to read the tip called Beware of Product Keys Sold Separately if you want to buy a product key online. If you buy a product key online and it doesn't work or stops working, see My Office product key isn't working.
If you believe the product key has been lost, stolen, or misplaced and you simply would like to buy a newer version of Office, you can click the button below to compare prices and options and to make your purchase.
If you're shopping for Office elsewhere, we recommend that you review our tips for safer shopping to make sure you're buying genuine Microsoft software. Be sure to read the tip called Beware of Product Keys Sold Separately if you want to buy a product key online.
Thanks to ODU's campus agreement with Microsoft, we are able to offer Office 365 to all members of the ODU community at no cost, for as long as you are part of the University. We want you to have the tools you need to succeed, and we want to improve communication and collaboration across campus.
Office 365 is a family of products that includes cloud collaboration tools and applications that can be installed on PCs, Macs, tablets and smartphones. Microsoft designed these applications to work together to provide a seamless experience across all devices.
With Office 365 Pro Plus, you can install Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote on up to five PCs or Macs, plus install Office apps on mobile devices. You'll recieve the latest version of all software, and free software updates for as long as you are part of ODU.
Important: Office 365 Pro Plus is for use on personal computers only -- not for University-managed workstations. We have a separate license that covers Microsoft Office products on ODU-managed machines. If you have questions about which license covers your particular device, please ask the TSP for your college or department.
Office Online is a version of Office products you can use to create, edit and share documents from any modern web browser. Office Online uses the same interface as the Office software on your computer or mobile device. Files that you create or edit in Office Online can be opened in the Office programs installed on your PC, Mac, iOS or Android device. There is nothing to install or activate.
Create digital notebooks to capture ideas in whatever form they come. Take notes by typing, handwriting, sketching, clipping links and webpages, inserting photos and videos, embedding tables, and attaching files. Your notebooks travel with you across all of your devices. If you have Office installed on your PC, you should already have OneNote. If you're on Mac, iOS or Android, you must download OneNote separately from your app store. For the best OneNote experience, we recommend you connect your OneNote to your ODU Office 365 account and your ODU OneDrive for Business.
We recommend that you connect your OneNote to your ODU Office 365 account. The first time you launch OneNote on a new device, you'll be asked to create a Microsoft account or log in using an existing account provided by your University. Log in using your ODU email address and your MIDAS password to connect OneNote to your ODU Office 365 account and OneDrive for Business.
OneDrive is a cloud file storage application that works seamlessly with Office on any device, making it easy to create, edit, store and share things like class assignments and projects between devices. Start working on one device and easily switch to another device to continue working anywhere.
You can connect OneDrive to Office apps on any device, and access your files anywhere you have an internet connection. In most cases, OneDrive is automatically connected to Office apps by associating the app with your ODU Office 365 account. We recommend you connect your ODU OneDrive to all Office apps activated with your ODU Office 365 account.
Office 365 at ODU comes with 5TB of online storage in OneDrive for Business, which is different and separate from personal OneDrive accounts. In fact, you might have a faculty/staff OneDrive, a student OneDrive AND a personal OneDrive, all of which can be attached to Microsoft Office on your computer simultaneously. Just make sure you pay attention to where you save your files. Data generated as an ODU faculty or staff member should be stored in your faculty/staff OneDrive for Business, not in a student OneDrive for Business or a personal OneDrive account.
If you have a personal cloud storage account already, you may want to move your files from that account into ODU's OneDrive for Business. If you'd like help with this process, contact the TSP for your college or department.
Important: University employees must be careful to protect confidential or restricted data. Before using OneDrive to send, store or share University information, review the regulated data storage matrix.
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