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Office 2016 Activation

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After Office is installed you can open any Office program (for example Word). You will be asked to accept the license terms.

Office license terms
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After accepting the terms you will be presented with the activation window; try online activation first.

Activation window
Verifying the product key
Verifying key
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Activation successful.

Activation successful
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If you see this window instead, you need to perform a phone activation. Please click on “back” and continue to the next step.

Online activation failed window
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Now choose the phone activation option and click “Next”.

Phone activation option
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Now choose your country, call the provided number and follow the steps to the point where you enter the installation ID and receive the confirmation ID, which you put into boxes A-H.

Installation ID and confirmation ID boxes

If you see a message about phone activation being no longer supported, disregard it; this message is displayed to everyone who is not an Office 365 subscriber. The phone number can be found here on the official Microsoft website.

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After typing in the confirmation ID from Microsoft, hit Next. The product key will be verified and that’s it: Office is successfully activated and ready to use.

Office activated