Offline activation

Question

I've just spent a frustrating day installing and then failing to activate Office 2016 Home & Student on a non-networkable PC (including almost an hour on the MS live "chat").

The "Product Key" I purchased turns out to need a network connection to activate.

Are there any SKUs which can be activated by phone (and don't require any connection to remain activated)?

Answer 1

You will note that Step 2 of that contains "[...] you need to activate Office. Be sure you're connected to the Internet and then open any Office application [...]"

Is offline activation possible with any extant Office SKU?

Answer 2

I'm sorry for taking so much time to reply, I had to search for a solution to your problem.

What method did you use to install Office on that computer? If you used the method of this link below, you only would have to press *Accept* and the installation would be activated.

> https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-th...

Answer 3

That Activation Wizard is never shown.  I see something like below:

On clicking "Back", a screen offering "Sign in" and  "Sign up" buttons is shown.  Both of those require a network connection.  A third option, something like "I don't want to sign up", brings back the above screen.

There is no means (that I can see) to trigger a different dialog to begin an activation-by-phone process.

Answer 4

It didn't help? Please, tell me why so I can search for another suggestion for you!

Answer 5

Hi MarkTyndall, my name is Jay, an independent advisor and I'll do my best to help today.

Office 2016 can be activated via phone! In the article below are the steps that you need to do to activate it that way.

> https://support.office.com/en-us/article/activa...

Regards,

Jay.