install on new laptop Home & Student 2013

If the Office Home and Student came pre-installed on your original computer, it is an OEM license and cannot be transferred.

Sorry you are receiving contradictory advice here.

Office 2013 may or may not be associated with your account.

My recollection, from 10+ years ago, is that it was installed with a product key and about that time Microsoft 365 was introduced. By Office 2016's release, everything was associated with the Microsoft Account and there was a transition period.

By all means log into your Microsoft account and see if you can download from there.

If it is not, you will need the product key.

Hello Steve,

My name is EngineTyme, an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft user like you and I would be glad to help you.

I understand that you want to move your Home & student 2013 to your new computer.

As answered by Zack in this thread, you could follow the steps below: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/reinstall-microsoft-office-home-and-student-2013/caedac92-50f4-48df-b182-5cda9a9368de

"To be able to recover office 2013 home and student it requires to be connected to an Microsoft account, in definition as a clear example of an Microsoft account is the "Account that you bought office 2013". If you only have a product key, please follow the steps down below:

Connect office 2013 to your Microsoft account using the Product key:

1. Click on the following link down below: http://WWW.office.com/setup
2. Login with desired Microsoft Account
3. Click next
4. Input your Product key
5. Choose language and version
6. Click next
7. Follow the next steps.

Download office home and student 2013:

1. Click on the following link attached below: http://www.office.com/myaccount
2. Follow the instructions on the page.

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Hi Steve, Please note that you CANNOT use the Product Key to reinstall Office Home & Student 2013. First thing to do is see if you can sign into your Account at: https://account.microsoft.com/services  You need to sign in with the Microsoft Account that you used to setup your Office with the Product Key and a Microsoft Account. You should see an Install link for your Office 2013. Then follow instructions below:

	Move Microsoft Office to another computer	<ul style=""><li style="margin-left: 0"><p style="" data-prewrap="true"><a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/uninstall-office-from-a-pc-9dd49b83-264a-477a-8fcc-2fdf5dbf61d8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="support.microsoft.com">Uninstall Office</a> from the original computer.</p></li><li style="margin-left: 0"><p style="" data-prewrap="true">On the new computer, sign in to your <a href="https://account.microsoft.com/services" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="account.microsoft.com">My Account</a> page and click <b>Install</b>. After you finish installing, you may be asked to activate Microsoft Office over the phone.</p></li></ul>

Is 2013 associated with an MS Account?

Hi Charles, it wasn't quite like that, but I did not think it was worth explaining at this point. I just wanted to see if Steve could sign into Services & Subscription at the Microsoft Account, that may or may not have been used to 'redeem' or setup his Home & Student 2013.

When Office 2013 was first introduced it was the first perpetual version of Office that was to be associated with a Microsoft Account. This was because of a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) (European Economic area).

However, it was possible to setup Office 2013, without using a Microsoft Account. This had long term effects because there was no way to reinstall Office 2013 from Services & Subscriptions: https://account.microsoft.com/services.  That is unless the user had used the backup option, provided by Microsoft. This could be used with the Product Key to reinstall Office 2013.

That caused a lot of problems, and Microsoft provided a website where users got a second chance to download Office 2013 using a Microsoft Account. Later Microsoft provided the facility to download Office 2013, which had not used a Microsoft account first time, from the normal setup link at:  http://www.office.com/setup  There is every chance that it has not yet been turned off. I have directed users too it not too long ago. I don't know what happened, as they never came back.

PS if you look at paragraph 3 of the licence you will see that restriction on transferring Office to a third party does not apply in the European Economic Area.

And, the Problem re not using a Microsoft Account to setup Office did not carry on with Office 2016. It was changes so that you had to use a Microsoft Account. But the problem with Office 2013 was ongoing after introduction of Office 2016. It is still ongoing, now and again.

I still have the backup exe file for my Office 2013, so I could used the Product Key to reinstall my Office 2013.