#Microsoft office 2010 find product key how to#

Also notice that when you put the last character in you get a message saying “Please wait while your key is validated” and the “Continue” button is greyed out and inactive (as seen below).Īssuming your key is valid the message disappears and the button is activated so you can carry on.

Note when you enter your 25 digit product key, you don’t have to worry about CAPS or putting the hyphens in, that gets taken care of for you (just as with previous versions of Office). The very first screen of the install wizard gives you a bunch of options, simply choose the one to enter a product key as shown below: Via control panel, go to install / remove a program (this called different things in different versions of Windows, but if you have a Technet or MSDN subscription I would pretty much hope you know where this is).įind the entry for Office 2010 and choose to change the installation (not remove).

#Microsoft office 2010 find product key how to#

Quick version of how to change your Office 2010 key There’s more info about what you might be missing in Office or Visio in this Microsoft support article and longwinded instructions about how to fix the issue and use a different product key. If you got your keys before 1st May they might not allow you to use all the features of the product as it seems there was some mix up with product keys for Terminal Services rather than full product ones. So you got excited and installed Office Professional Plus 2010 or Visio 2010 using your Technet or MSDN subscription and product key? What if you want to change it later?