Office 2016 For Mac Keeps Asking To Activate

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RE: Cannot activate Office 2016 Jump to solution I am having the same issue and after 30 minutes of the worst hold music in history, Dell is sending me a new activation product key - but I have to snail mail back the old one before I get the new one so its going to take at least one week before I can use the software that I purchased with my.

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Office 2016 For Mac Keeps Asking To Activate

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Summary

Open any Office app. You can activate Office from any of the included Office apps, such as Microsoft Word. To open Word, open Finder, select the Applications folder, and then double-click Microsoft Word in the 'Microsoft Office' section. 'You need to activate Office for Mac within X days' after activating already. Microsoft is aware of and currently working on this issue. If you've activated Office for Mac 2016 but are still seeing a message that says 'You need to activate Office for Mac within X days,' please try these steps to resolve your issue: Run the License Removal Tool. When you install a volume license version of Office Standard or Office Professional Plus on a new PC, you might be prompted with a Let's get started screen each time you start Office. This can happen if you don't uninstall the pre-installed version of Office on your new PC before installing a volume license version of Office.

This article discusses how to troubleshoot the activation issues in Microsoft Office from Office 365. Activation fails and you receive one the following error messages:

We are unable to connect right now. Please check your network and try again later.

Sorry, we can't connect to your account. Please try again later.

More information

Office 2016 For Mac Keeps Asking To Activate

This issue might be caused by one of several circumstances. Follow these steps to help troubleshoot the issue. After each step, check to see whether the issue is fixed. If not, proceed to the next step.

Step 1. Identify and fix activation issues by using the Support and Recovery Assistant for Office 365

The Support and Recovery Assistant app runs on Windows PCs and can help you identify and fix activation issues with Office 365. Office 365: Use the Support and Recovery Assistant for Office 365

Step 2. Check whether you're behind a proxy server

Are you behind a proxy server? If you're not sure, ask your administrator. If so, you (or your administrator) might have to change the proxy settings for Windows HTTP clients. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator. To do this, click Start, type cmd.exe in the search box, right-click cmd.exe in the list, and then click Run as administrator.
  2. Type the following command, and then press Enter:

Step 3. Check whether you're behind a firewall

Are you behind a firewall? If you're not sure, ask your administrator. If you're behind a firewall, it might have to be configured to enable access to the following:

  • https://officecdn.microsoft.com
  • https://ols.officeapps.live.com/olsc
  • https://activation.sls.microsoft.com
  • https://odc.officeapps.live.com
  • https://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/MicrosoftProductSecureServer.crl
  • https://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/MicrosoftRootAuthority.crl
  • https://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/MicrosoftProductSecureCommunicationsPCA.crl
  • https://www.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/MicrosoftProductSecureCommunicationsPCA.crl
  • go.microsoft.com
  • office15client.microsoft.com

Each firewall will have a different method for enable access to these URIs. Check your software's documentation for instructions or ask your administrator to do this for you.

For more information about Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise URLs and IP addresses, see the following Microsoft article: Office 365 URLs and IP address ranges

Step 4. Check whether you have the appropriate license

Office 2016 For Mac Keeps Asking To Activate
  1. Sign in to the Office 365 portal.
  2. Click Settings (), and then click Office 365 settings.
  3. Locate the Assigned licenses area.
  4. If you see The latest desktop version of Office, then you have an Office subscription assigned correctly.
  5. If you don't see The latest desktop version of Office, contact your administrator or see the Office article What Office 365 business product or license do I have?

Step 5. If you previously activated an Office 2013 program on the computer, try to remove the existing product key

To manually remove existing product keys for an Office 2013 program, follow these steps:

Cannot Activate Office 2016

  1. Open a Command Prompt window, type one of the following commands, and then press Enter:

    • If you're running 64-bit Windows with 32-bit Office:

    • If you're running 32-bit Windows, or running 64-bit Office with 64-bit Windows:

  2. Examine the output. Look for and locate the last five characters of the installed product key.

  3. Remove all product keys. To remove a product key, type the following command and then press Enter:

Activate Office 2016 For Mac

Here's an example of the output of steps 5a through 5c:

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For more information, see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

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