Office 2010 & Office 2013
Office 2010 and Office 2013 do not store their product keys in an easily accessible location in the registry file and many third party programs cannot scan for them. However, you can use a script to find the last five digits of the product key.
- Open the Command Prompt by searching for “cmd” in Windows.
- In the command prompt, type or paste in the following:
Windows (32-bit) Office 2010 (32-bit) cscript “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.VBS” /dstatus Office 2013 (32-bit) cscript “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS” /dstatus Windows (64-bit) Office 2010 (32-bit) cscript “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.VBS” /dstatus Office 2010 (64-bit) cscript “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.VBS” /dstatus Office 2013 (32-bit) cscript “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS” /dstatus Office 2013 (64-bit) cscript “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS” /dstatus *Please note that if Office is not installed on your C: drive, you will need to update the drive letter in the above script appropriately.
- Once you have the last five digits, you can then back track the full key using the last five digits by contacting Microsoft.
Losing a product key does not mean you have to purchase the product again, as most of the time you can recover it by scanning through the registry file.
