As long as there is a genuine copy of Microsoft Office 2010 installed on your computer, this tutorial will help you extract the product key from the registry in just a few minutes. The Office 2010 product keys are encrypted inside the Windows Registry so finding them manually is nearly impossible. So this is one of the best office suit to use with the help of Microsoft office 2010 key. Check: MS Office 2016 Product Key List. Microsoft office 2010 product key is a 25-character code used to activate office. It looks like this. Microsoft office 2010 serial key: XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX. Microsoft Product Identifier key is included if you pre purchased Office. Dell Does not send keys out. SLMGR is a legacy tool. Microsoft has not updated slmgr, and because of updates in successive system builds, the last five digits of the product key that are shown by slmgr /dlv or /dli do not match the product key that is injected into the system BIOS. Locate your MS Office 2010 product key. It should be in your Order Confirmation email, Product Key card that came with your PC, or original product package. Then follow these steps to download Office 2010 with a product key: Open the Get a backup of Office 2010 page and click on Download. How to Activate Microsoft Office 2010 Product Key? Install Office 2010 Professional Plus on your computer. Now take a second to download Microsoft Toolkit KMS Activator. Now open the folder and extract it and run Microsoft Toolkit. Click on Tiny Office logo button which is available at.
I’ve got several licenses for Office and Outlook but I’m not sure which one which ones I’ve used and which ones are free.
How can I find out which license I’ve used for which computer and how can I change the key if needed?
While you could simply try one of your Product/License Keys and see if it gets accepted, it’s not a very sophisticated approach.
The proper method to determine or change the Product Key depends on your version of Office or Outlook. However, for either version there is no need to completely reinstall Office.
Note: Office 365 installations don’t require a license key as they activate automatically when you log on to Office with your Microsoft Account. The same applies to Office 2016 and Office 2019 licenses that are linked to your Microsoft Account.
Find license keys for Office 2010, Office 2013, Office 2016 and Office 2019 via a script
Office 2010 and later include a vbs-script which will reveal the last 5 characters of your Product Key. It’s pretty safe to state that these 5 characters would already be more than enough to find out which Product Key you have used (as you should already have safely stored the full Product Key code somewhere else together with your other license information).
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You can run the vbs-file in the following way;
- Open a command prompt. For instance via:
- Start-> type:
cmd
- Start-> type:
- In the command prompt, type the following:
- Office 2016/2019 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice16OSPP.VBS' /dstatus - Office 2016/2019 (32-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice16OSPP.VBS' /dstatus - Office 2016/2019 (64-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice16OSPP.VBS' /dstatus - Office 2013 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice15OSPP.VBS' /dstatus - Office 2013 (32-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice15OSPP.VBS' /dstatus - Office 2013 (64-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice15OSPP.VBS' /dstatus - Office 2010 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice14OSPP.VBS' /dstatus - Office 2010 (32-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice14OSPP.VBS' /dstatus - Office 2010 (64-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice14OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
- Office 2016/2019 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows
- You should now get a screen with some license details such as the license name, type and the last 5 characters of the Product Key.
Office offers a scripted method to lookup your Product Key.
Find Office 2010 Product Key
Changing the Product Key for Office 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019
Changing the Product Key for msi-based installations of Office can be done directly from the Control Panel/Apps & Features or via a command line.
Product Keys for Click-to-Run based installations of Office can only be modified via the command line.
- Windows 10
Start-> Settings-> Apps & Features - Windows 7 and Windows 8
Start-> Control Panel-> Uninstall a Program
Here, locate your Office application and press Modify or Change. Setup will now start with the option “Enter a Product Key” which allows you to enter a different product key.
To change the Product Key via a command line, you can use the same OSPP.VBS script as mentioned before. Instead of using the /dstatus switch, you must use the /inpkey:value switch where you should replace value for your Product Key.
Changing the Product Key for Office XP/2002 / 2003 / 2007
Changing the Product Key for Office 2007 or previous requires you to go into the Registry.
- Browse to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice<version>Registration - Now is a good point to make a backup of that key;
Right click on the key, choose Export… and save the file to for instance your Desktop. - Expand the Registration key in the Registry and you’ll see one or more sub keys which contain a lot of characters between curly brackets: { and }
Each sub key stands for an installed Office application.
The proper name for this identifier string is called a “GUID”. - Click on the sub key to reveal its contents in the right pane.
TheSuitNamekey will reveal the name of the package that you have installed. If you have multiple GUID sub keys listed, you can use this key name to determine for which installation you’ll be changing the Product Key. - In the pane on the right, delete the following keys:
DigitalProductIDProductID
- Close the Registry and start Outlook (or any other Office application); you’ll now be prompted to fill in your Product Key and activate Office again.
Delete the DigitalProductID and ProductID key to reset your Product Key.
Determine the Product Key with a 3rd party tool
Free Microsoft 2010 Product Key
Determining the used Product Key when using Office 2007 or previous isn’t directly supported by Microsoft. However, you can use a little program called Magic Jelly Bean Keyfinder to find out your used Product Key. Simply install and run the application to find out the Product Key (note: during the installation, there will be a prompt to also install a sponsored application which you can choose not to install).
Extract Office 2010 Product Key
Another free application which you can use is Belarc Advisor. This application does a bit more thorough scan of your computer for which it generates a report that also includes license keys for several of your installed applications. If you are in a large corporate network, you might want to disconnect your network connection as it will also try to build a network map which may cause the application to appear to hang at the “checking the local network of this computer” stage.