The machine is a new ThinkPad, that originally had a trial version of Office 2016 on it. Office 2016 is the latest version launched by Microsoft. I suppose a couple or registry line from the old install are still there. Frankly, this is a problem that - while relatively easy to resolve - simply should not exist. On these legacy Windows 10 machines, do they have the exactly same version of Windows 10 as the new ThinkPad?.
I uninstalled the Trial version of Office. Step 4: Open your Office 2016 app, such as Word. There are many sites from where you can find a key that may help you. I'd rather know what specifically needs correction. If you are still seeing something like the Activation Message issue, I'd suggest starting a new thread completely describing your hardware configuration and Windows version along with any details about your troubleshooting so far.
I uninstalled that via the Control Panel, as well as uninstalling the Get Office app from the Start menu, before rebooting and installing the volume license edition. Installing Microsoft Office 2016 Simply run the setup file named setup. Tried on the other computers, same thing. That is not correct, leading me to suspect that the problem is with the trial edition Uninstaller. Step 3: Run the batch file as administrator. We have created an article that provides a workaround to remove the activation window message from reappearing:.
Check the activation status again. Step 3: When all product keys are displayed, click the Save to File button to save all the keys into a Notepad. Regards Peter I've been fighting with this same issue and none of the above fixes worked. On these new ThinkPad machines, we can also perform a clean boot to determine whether background programs are interfering with Office activation: By the way, please also make sure you run the Office applications as administrator, check if the problem will occur then. I had a volume licence version of Office 2.
However, they never had the Office Trial Version installed. Step 2: Paste the code into the text file. Step 2: Click on the Start Recovery button. Trying to connect to another one. If you are also dying to get hands on it then here is how you can do that even without entering any product key. I left the company and had to give it up. Even a regular Control Panel uninstall of the trialware seemed insufficient, if I had to guess.
Thanks, Anahita B The Office Team Hello, Thanks again for your patience while we figure out a valid solution for this issue. Regards, Melon Chen TechNet Community Support Please mark the reply as an answer if you find it is helpful. I've seen the reports of the same symptoms from Dell machines. Without these you cant work. After installation, launch this tool. But, as soon as Microsoft finds out that you are using an invalid key your copy of office will get expired. Brand new setup, uninstalled Office 360 trial, rebooted, installed Office 2016, activated it, rebooted and the popup kept coming back event thought it said that it is activated.
I just installed Office 2016 for a customer, and got this prompt constantly popping up every single time I opened the product. This is something that all of us want. Even a regular Control Panel uninstall of the trialware seemed insufficient, if I had to guess. How can I keep the wizard from running for all users? Way 2: Activate Office 2016 with free tool If you get free Microsoft Office Professional 2016 installed without the product key, you still have to activate it before you can use it. Your version is not supported.
If you are using other versions of Office 2016 on other Windows, the ways shown below will also work. I've seen the reports of the same symptoms from Dell machines. Giles R DeMourot Much appreciated. Every time I launch an Office application, it asks for activation. I will take Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 in Windows 10 as an example.
You are done with the activation process. Does not work at all. Folks like to help, but much more information is needed that a one-liner can give. A second new ThinkPad, prepared the same way, shows the same symptom. Hi, Based on the description, I understand the dialog pops every time an Office program is started on Windows 10 Pro, but the issue doesn't occur to the legacy Windows 10 machines. Then use the retrieved key to activate Office 2016. Just go and check the activation status again.