Activate Microsoft Office manually via CMD command or change key

Please note: The commands are all to be entered without the inverted commas "".  You can copy all commands and paste them using the right mouse button.

Activate Microsoft Office Key

• Click on Start at the bottom left

• In the search field below, enter "cmd". 

• If for some reason the search does not work, you can also find "cmd" under "C:\Windows\System32".

• Now click with the right mouse button on the black cmd window and select the following
  "Run as administrator"

• Now we have to navigate to the Microsoft Office folder. Attention: The installation path changes depending on the Office version! Please find the installation path of Office first.
  
  
• To find the installation path: Double-click on the local data carrier

• If you have a 64-bit operating system, go to the "Applications" folder; if you have a 32-bit operating system, go to the "Applications (x86)" folder.

• Copy the installation path

• For 64 bit systems, we enter the following into the CMD window:
  "cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16" Enter Press

• For 32 bit systems, we enter the following into the CMD window:
  "cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16" Enter Press

• Now enter the following command: "cscript ospp.vbs /act:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx".
  Replace the xxxxxx with your key Enter Press

Change Microsoft Office Key

• Click on Start at the bottom left

• In the search field below, enter "cmd". If for some reason the search does not work,
  then you can also find "cmd" under "C:\Windows\System32".

• Now click with the right mouse button on the black cmd window and select the following
  "Run as administrator"

• Now we need to navigate to the Microsoft Office folder

• For 64 bit systems, we enter the following into the CMD window:
  "cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16" Enter Press

• For 32 bit systems, we enter the following into the CMD window:
  "cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16" Enter Press

• Now enter the following command: "cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx".
  Replace the xxxxxx with your key Enter Press

Query Microsoft Office Licensing Status

• With the command: cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus you can query the licensing status and read off the installed keys.