How To Solve Unlicensed Product Issues?

LiveAssist
3 min readFeb 7, 2020

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When you open Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint for the first time, you may see a message that says: “Unlicensed Microsoft Office.”

Technical support

Microsoft Office 2019 comes in many editions. Office 2019 unlicensed product is common among Home and Student versions. Others Business, Professional and Professional Plus. To use the core applications in any edition, you need to activate the proper method for each edition.

How to Fix Unlicensed Microsoft Office 2019 using Account?

1. When you purchase Office 2019, you are provided with an account.
2. Go to any Office application like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
3. File > Account > Product Activation.
4. Enter the login details for your Account.
5. Automatically Office 2019 will pick the right License.
6. Select one of the right licenses displayed in the list for multiple licenses in your Account.
7. Check File > Account.
8. You can see the Product Activation Status under Product Information.
9. If it says Product Activated, then your Office 2019 license is good to use.

Unlicensed Product and activation errors in Office

1. No product key is required if you are re-installing Office 2019.
2. Just login used to buy the License.
3. If you purchased a license from retailers or an online store, the product key is given.
4. Link this key with your Account.
5. Do this by going to office.com/setup. Sign in using your Microsoft account.
6. Download the Office 2019 product from Microsoft Services and Subscriptions pages.
7. Another way is using the Office Activation Wizard of 2019 applications.

For example, the Home version license will not work for Professional Plus. Initially, when you purchase Dell, Lenovo, HP kinds of laptops, they are provided free Office 2019 versions for some days. After the trial is over or the License expires, you are startled by “Unlicensed Product” and “Activation” Errors.

Reasons for Unlicensed Product Microsoft Office 2019

1. The subscription has expired.
2. The license Account is not working anymore.
3. Using the wrong License version.
4. The purchased License is pirated.
5. The retailer is not genuine.

Cause of Unlicensed Product Office 2019

Generally, you either enter a product code or log in to an account to activate Microsoft Office 2019. When neither of its workings, then some error might have triggered the “Unlicensed Product” error.

Here is an easy solution:
To solve this problem automatically, open https://officelivesupport.com In the File Download dialog box, click Run or Open and then follow the steps in the easy repair wizard.

• This assistant can be in English only. However, automatic correction also works for versions of Windows in other languages.

  • If it is not on the computer that has the problem, save the easy fix solution on a flash drive or CD and then run it on the computer that has the problem.

Let me fix it myself
1. Determine if your computer has the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Office 2019. To do this, open any Office 2019 program, click File and then Help.

2. Close all Office 2019 programs.

3. Click Start, type CMD (command prompt) in the Start Search box, and then press Enter.

4. At the command prompt, type one of the following commands and then press Enter:

  • If you are running 64-bit Windows with 32-bit Office.
  • If you are running 32-bit Windows or running 64-bit Office with 64-bit Windows.

Do you still need help? Go to the Microsoft community.

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