Hi Bob

Many thanks for your reply - much appreciated. However, as I pointed out in an earlier e-mail, most of these product key finders work up to an including Office 2013. Thereafter Microsoft changed certain aspects of their installation so as to leave only the last five characters of the product key behind (in the registry or anywhere else). Indeed Belarc Advisor makes specific mention of the fact that their product will not return the full product key for Office versions after Office 2013. From the Belarc Advisor report there is a footnote as follows:

f. The full product key is not stored on this computer. However, the characters shown uniquely identify your product key.

Paul

-----Original Message----- From: Robert Sullivan robert.g.sullivan@gmail.com Sent: 05 September 2020 03:46 To: Paul Newton Paul.Newton@pegasus.co.uk Subject: Re: [NF] Lost product key for Office Professional Plus 2016

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I have lost the product key that I was sent when I purchased this software (which was a special price for employees of the company I work for). Any suggestions (none of the utilities for retrieving product keys that I have tried return the full product key)? Many thanks.

Paul Newton

Hi Paul,

I had good luck with LicenseCrawler for retrieving a full key a few weeks ago, although that was for Office 2007. Not sure if it would know how to handle 2016.

https://www.lifewire.com/licensecrawler-review-2625097

http://www.klinzmann.name/licensecrawler.htm

Hope this helps,

-- Bob Sullivan