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Lazesoft Windows Key Finder grabs Office 2013 keys. \HKEYLOCALMACHINE\software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\ClickToRun\scenario\INSTALL REGSZ ProductKeys. Luckily, you can use Command Prompt to enter a script to find the last 5 digits of Office 2013 key and then contact Microsoft to track the full key using the last 5 digits. Find Microsoft Office 2016 Product Key in Registry Method 1. However, since Office 2013, Microsoft changed the way to handle Microsoft Office product keys, so there is no way to extract Office 2013/2016 product key from the registry. Find Office 2016 Product Key with Product Key Finder Method 4. Find Office 2016 Product Key using PowerShell Method 3. Find Office 2016 Product Key with Command Prompt 2.2. Find Office 2016 Product Key with Command Line. Is there something obvious that I'm missing or doing wrong here? Is there an alternate way that I can retrieve the key? If not, what are my options at this point to get Office up and running one way or another? I found the MS Office 2013 ProductKey in the following registry location and it worked to activate and Install MS Office 2013. Find Office 2016 Product Key with Microsoft Account Method 2.
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As far as I can tell, the software IS installed, just not activated (MS Office files are present on the computer, and MS Office is listed as one of the programs in the computer on my control panel).
#Retrieve office 2013 product key registry how to#
I found an article online by Tim Fisher about how to retrieving the key ( ) and I tried downloading several of the product key finding programs listed ( ), but none of the programs ended up displaying the key for Microsoft Office (different programs displayed varying numbers of other keys for other programs, but none of them displayed the key for MS Office). I lost the CD for Microsoft Office, and can't activate the software without the product key on the back of the CD package.