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Scripting Retrieval of Office & Windows Product Keys By Chris Blackburn The following scripts will work on Windows 2000 & higher, and only Office 2003 to find the product keys and create a text document with the product name & product key. Microsoft office 2010 is amongst the world's most widely used text processor. Microsoft Office 2010 product key or activation keys can be used to activate your trial or limited edition of Office 2010 suite. How do I retrieve product key on uninstalled office 2013? Win XP to Win 7 64bit Office 2000 to 2010 32&64 bit. I need to recover product key for.

I have read about MS's offer to replace 'lost' keys, provided you can give the enough proof of the original purchase. The partial key you gave them was apparently enough. That is surprise. Or did your key extractor tool also record a 'PRoduct ID' in the format 12345-123-123456-12345. If I understand the replacement process, those 2 pieces of info might be enough to qualify.

Starting with Office 2013 MS 'improved' the way the Office Product Key' (that is official name) is stored on the HD. We can now only extract the last 5 char of the key. Enough to match it to an independent record of the full key.

So accessing the old HD will no help you. You will get exactly the same info as you already have.

Your only other hope to get a free install is to find the original key.

Your Office 2010 license key is located in the registry, but it's encrypted. You may reach your Office 2010 product key registry location, however, it's nearly impossible to retrieve Office 2010 license key in the registry manually, fortunately, you can turn to Windows Office 2010 product key finder to help find lost Office 2010 product key. How to Find Microsoft Office Product Keys Use a key finder program to locate your lost Microsoft product key. Share Pin Email Print Windows. Installing & Upgrading. LicenseCrawler, the key finder program we recommend for Office 2010 & 2007 product keys in that tutorial, will find your product key in just seconds.

How did you originally buy Office. If you bought an online download, you may still have the original purchase confirmation email, WITH the product key on it.

There is one other very slim possibility. A few Office 2013 licenses were associated with email accounts. Try logging in to the MyAccount site to see if your 2013 license is there. If it is, you can install from there.

Effectively all Office licenses allow you to re-install on the same computer, even after limited system changes like “upgrading” the OS or installing a new HD. Some, not all Office licenses allow you to “transfer” the installation to a new computer.

To re-install Office in general you need 2 things. Your unique product key and the matching generic installation file for the appropriate year and bundle.

These two elements can be found in a number of places, depending on your specific Year of Office and the bundle. For Office 2010 and earlier you need the key and install file, but with 2013 and later things have been changing

How To Recover Microsoft Office 2010 Key

If you have Office 2016/365 then you can log in to the MyAccount page to re-install Office.Office 2016 allows users to do all sorts of license management through the MyAccount page. Office 2016 forces you to associate your license to an email account so the original product key becomes effectively one-time use.

This sub site has the following major categories, with more detailed sub pages under them

What's new in Office? – this has links to the pages with montly updates of New features in 365

Office 2010 Serial Number

• Switch to one of the different Office 365 for home user subscriptions (365 Home, Personal, University)