*Please note that if Office is not installed on your C: drive, you will need to update the drive letter in the above script appropriately. In the command prompt, type or paste in the following:Ĭscript “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.VBS” /dstatusĬscript “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS” /dstatusĬscript “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.VBS” /dstatusĬscript “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS” /dstatus.Open the Command Prompt by searching for “cmd” in Windows.
However, you can use a script to find the last five digits of the product key. Office 2010 and Office 2013 do not store their product keys in an easily accessible location in the registry file and many third party programs cannot scan for them. Most notably, Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 365 do not store their product keys in the registry file. However, it cannot find product keys for all programs.
Install and run ProduKey to view a list of product keys stored in your registry file. You can also retrieve your Windows product key via a third party program such as NirSoft ProduKey, which scans your Windows registry file for the product keys of other software.
After all, you don’t want to reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows only to find out that you don’t know what your Windows product key is.
Being everywhere is great.Common sense and software companies advise users to save their product keys securely in case they need them in the future, such as when re-installing your operating system. With Office 2016 and Office 365, the everywhere Office suite is finally everywhere again, instead of just living on Windows PCs.
But in that time, the web and mobile devices from Apple and Android have also become ubiquitous.
It’s been like the air that business people breathe: everywhere, necessary, sometimes fresh and sometimes a little stale. Excel has finally been graced with some new chart types, and the data analysis tools like maps are built in, and available in all versions, instead of being expensive and complicated extras.įor the past 20 years, Office has been ubiquitous. The sharing and co-authoring tools continue to get easier to use and more powerful, although it’s disappointing that Windows users don’t get the superb OneDrive integration that’s on the Mac, where you can see files that have been shared with you by other people – saving a huge amount of time when you’re collaborating.