If you have an Office 365 subscription, you can deactivate Office on a PC or Mac that you're no longer using. “Remove” (consumer) / “Deactivate” (business) Office 365 Still in the MyAccount site on the new computer, find and click on the Install button (see install article below).ĭONE, you have 'transferred' the installation to a new computer. Office installation would go into 'limited function mode' because it was no longer activated.

IF the old computer was still running, the You have now done EVERYTHING you need to do to install on a new computer. On the new computer, in your browser, log in to the MyAccount site:įind the computer name of your old computer, click on the 'deactivate' link beside it (see deactivate article below). Starting with Office 2013, much more so in 2016, MS allows users to have easier and better control of their Office Licenses. It is completely local to the computer.Įnough repeating the bad news, on to the GOOD NEWS! No, uninstall ( STILL!) does not actually talk to the the MS activation system. I’ll get to the other, “new & improved” way (no sarcasm this time) way in minute. A 'dead'Ĭomputer is one way to meet that requirement. The main point being that you have to make sure that Office installation can no longer be used. Yes, the license terms say you have to uninstall Office to free up the install count. (this is the “better” part than the old way) The new email association is managed through the MyAccount site:

Now the Office license / product key is primarily “associated” with the email account, instead of the old way of only associating the license with the hardware.

Yes, the Office one-time payment Product Key has also been ' improved ' to be one-time use (this can actually be an improvement, keep Yes, the Office 2016 / 2019 one-time payment license was (dis)' improved ' to allow install on only one machine at a time. Way (I was going to say ID-10-Ts, but that is not nice. When it comes to most 'activation issues' they are almost always totally incompetent, I mean the definition of the term, not the derogatory Transfer Office 365 / 2019 / 2016 to a new computerĭon’t bother talking to 'normal' MS Support about activation errors.

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