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How to Fix Unlicensed Microsoft Office 2019 on Error

Author: Kris Van
by Kris Van
Posted: Jan 10, 2022
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.

Another way is using the Office Activation Wizard of 2019 applications.

It generally applies to home users.

Typical Microsoft Office 2019 Unlicensed Product

For example, the Home version license will not work for Professional Plus. Initially, when you purchase Dell, Lenovo, HP kind 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.

You can always sign-up for the free versions of Office using a Microsoft account.

When you open Word, Excel, PowerPoint, you are thrown a message that "Most of the features have been disabled".

For example, The Product is unlicensed Office 2019 error would be something like –

Then, suddenly I got told that my Product was unlicensed and I couldn’t edit any of my documents that I could literally just yesterday. I am told the only way to ‘activate’ Office again is to sign in (I didn’t use an account to access MS office) or enter a product code (which was not included w/ my laptop as MS office was already pre-installed).

Source: answers.microsoft.com

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.

How to Fix Unlicensed Microsoft Office 2019

Home and Business users have different accounts. Also, Student and University subscriptions are different. When you were using Office 2019 with one type of Account, it will work as long as the service is live.

https://www.officelivesupport.com/unlicensed-product-error-when-opening-an-office-professional-plus-2019-application/

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