- Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac keeps asking me to activate it. This is the subscription based software, but the applications are installed locally on the machines (meaning, it should work even if the machine is not connected to the internet).
- Office 2016 keeps asking for activation Not really sure what the deal is here. I've installed Office 2016 on a machine for a teacher, and it ends up asking for the activation key after a period of time.
Had a situation that seems to be fairly common – get laptop, uninstall 'Get Office' program, install Office 2016 and activate using KMS server, which seems to work fine. Then when you fire up one of the programs you get the 'Lets get started' screen. You can close this and it works ok, but it is annoying.
I need to install and activate Office 2016 on a Mac (Mac OS Sierra). After signing in, I realized the account has reached its maximum number of allowed licenses (10) for Office 2016, so I tried to.
To fix this see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3170450 (deleting a couple of registry keys that make Office think it's still in OEM mode).
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftOffice16.0CommonOEM Kotor saved games.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice16.0CommonOEM
I ran in to this issue where Outlook 2016 for OSX said it required to be activated. Very annoying as I don't have a 365 account and that is what it requires before you can use it. It seems that this problem was caused by the fact that I used an older version of the preview/beta in the past. It can simply be solved be taking the following steps:
Cannot Activate Office 2016
- Open Terminal
- Type: defaults delete com.microsoft.Outlook
- Type: killall cfprefsd
- Exit the Terminal session and launch Outlook
Office 2016 For Mac Keeps Asking To Activate Password
This basically deletes all the current settings for Outlook and wipes the cache. Now you can enter your details again and it will all work as expected.
