Microsoft Office 2016 is the latest software upgrade you are accustomed to: a one-off fee grants you a licence to install the software on a computer within your network. However, whereas once you simply paid for the latest update to access new features, you now have two options: upgrade to Microsoft Office 2016 (the 17 th software release) for a one time fee, or consider Office 365 – the monthly subscription service of the software that includes other cloud benefits. Microsoft Office has long been the de-facto business suite for organisations of all sizes. You can find the original version here: Office 365 and Office 2016 - what's the difference? The useful part, though, is that the last five digits should be the correct ones for your license which means you can search your email and computer’s hard drive to see if you find any emails or matching files which contain the full product key.Disclaimer: This is a new version of a blog we originally wrote in August 2015, a few months before Office 2016 hit the shelves, which we've now updated for a 2017 audience. If the first 20 digits are shown at all for an Office product, they will be generic. What this means is that – as with all Windows 10 product keys – any code that a keyfinder app shows you will not work. Whether Office was pre-installed or not, here’s the bad news: Microsoft changed how product keys are stored, so beginning with Microsoft Office 2013, only the last five digits of the 25-character code are stored in the Registry for Office 2013, 20.

But we’re assuming you’ve looked in all those obvious places before turning to the web and finding this article.

If Office was pre-installed when you bought your PC or laptop, you might find a sticker on the machine itself with the code.

How can I find an Office 2013, 2016 or 2019 product key?

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