Considering that the free license trick to activate Microsoft Office LTSC , which I talked about in 2022, apparently no longer works, I looked for alternative methods to activate Microsoft Office and I found a license for this program, which is practically given away. It's not free, but it practically is, due to its ridiculously low price. I bought it in order to test it and until now Microsoft Office is still activated correctly..
The price of the license in question is 1 dollar and 30 cents. This is a Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2021 license, which must be activated by phone, a process that is slightly tedious, but it actually works. I summarize the complete process below:
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- Purchase the Microsoft Office 2021 Professional Plus license from the seller's page. I bought it through Paypal on the keys4us.com website , in case you want to use the same seller. They should send you a product key almost immediately to your email that you will use later.
- Download the Microsoft Office 2021 Professional Plus installation file from the official Microsoft website. Here you have the link to the Spanish version .
- Since the above file is a disk image, you first need to mount this image and then open its contents. Double click on it and choose “Mount”. Next look for the “Setup” file, double click and then Open. Wait for the installation to complete.
- Open Microsoft Word or any of the Office programs you just installed. In a few seconds the activation window will appear.
- In this activation window, enter the product key that the seller sent you in the first step of this tutorial. Click on Activate Office.
- Another activation window will appear where you must select “ Activate by phone ”. You will see a window similar to the one in the image at the beginning of this article. Basically you must follow the steps indicated there.
- So the first step would be to select the country. A phone number will automatically appear that you should call .
- As indicated in the second step, the robot that will answer your call will ask you to enter the groups of numbers that you see in the activation window (installation ID ) in the phone's dialer. Don't worry, the robot will ask you for information step by step.
- When you have completed the above, the robot will now give you several groups of characters ( confirmation ID ) that you must instead enter in the boxes A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H of the activation window. If you didn't hear a character correctly, at the end you can ask them to repeat the characters.
This is exactly how I activated my Microsoft Office and it worked correctly. I give all credit to the website premiumcdkeys.com , because that's where I got this information for the installation and activation. There you will also find the image of the Office Professional Plus 2021 installer version in English and other languages. However, I must also clarify that I do not recommend purchasing the aforementioned license there, since I did and never received it. Instead use the link I provided in step one of the tutorial.
The only drawbacks I had with this activation method is that the number I had to call was an 1800 number , so that was an extra expense I had to make. Additionally, before starting step 7, the robot gave me a human verification test : he told me to enter three numbers that he dictated to me into the dialer. The first time I failed this test because I entered each number as soon as I heard it and what you had to do was first listen to the three numbers and only after that enter them. Because of this mistake I made I had to make the call twice..