Office Activator is an Office activation tool.
Just like other activation tools,
Office Activator is:
- intended to help people who lost activation of their legally-owned licenses, e.g. due to a change of hardware (motherboard, CPU, ...)
Office Activator is not:
- a one-click activation or crack tool
- intended to activate illegal copies of software (Office, Project, Visio)
In simple terms, Office Activator makes the license status of Office always true by hooking some functions. Therefore, the patched Office has no activation time limit (difference from KMS). Once Office is updated, the patch may become invalid and you need to run the patch again.
| Office 2010 | Office 2013 | Office 2016 | Office 2019 | Office 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows 7 | ✔️(No LicenseManagement) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Windows 8 | ✖️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Windows 10 | ✖️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Windows 11 | ✖️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
- Download Office Activator and extract to a directory.
- Determine the architecture of the installed Office, and then run the corresponding
OfficeActivator[86/64].exeas administrator. - Use
ospp.vbsor LicenseManagement function to uninstall Office product keys for all Grace channels. - Use
ospp.vbsor LicenseManagement function to install the retail or KMS product key corresponding to the Office version. If necessary, install the license file first. You can select a pre-built key in the Product Key drop-down box. - Click the "Check patch status" button to check the patch status. If the tool does not automatically recognize the Office installation directory and the path of
MSO.DLL, you need to locate these paths first. - Check patch status. Typically, "SppcHook Patch State" and "MSO Patch State" are "SppcHook.dll not found." and "MSO.DLL is not patched." respectively. If this is not the case, and the indicator color is not green, you may need to reinstall Office.
- At this point, just click the "Apply patch" button. If successful, the patch status indicator will turn green. If you need to restore the patch, just click the "Restore" button.
- Enjoy!