Important: When you select the option to activate Office by telephone, you might receive this error: Telephone activation is no longer supported for your product. To activate Office by telephone, you can call the numbers for your specific country/region listed in this article. |
In most cases, you'll need your product key to activate Office 2010. Need help finding your product key?
If you're activating over the Internet and have a slow connection, you might want to activate by phone.
Your Office 2010 license allows you to reinstall Office on the same computer, and some licenses allow you to activate Office on more than one computer. But if you try activating Office and you get a message that you have installed it too many times, use the telephone option in the Activation Wizard to contact a support technician. To learn more about what the license terms allow, read the Microsoft Software License Terms for your Office product.
If you don't activate your software, eventually Office 2010 switches to Reduced Functionality mode where it lets you open files to view them but not edit them. You can still activate by going to File > Help > Activate Product Key. In the Activation Wizard, choose the option for activating by telephone, and when you call the activation number, but do not enter anything or say anything. You'll be transferred to someone who can help you.