Get Office 2021 for FREE without a product key
As you know, in the past fourteen years, all Microsoft Office version numbers were named according to a simple arithmetic sequence that has a difference of 3 between each one since Office 2007. Notwithstanding the rule, a new version of Microsoft productivity suite was released on October 5th succeeding Office 2019 and its official name is Office 2021, not Office 2022. Surely you will be curious to know what is new in this version that makes them change the naming convention of their product. Is it worth upgrading your old productivity suite? Let’s make it clear right now.
What’s new in Office 2021
There are quite a few new features added to this 2021 version. You will have a new dark mode, realtime co-authoring, editing tools, functions, motion graphics, improved features, and so much more. Just check out the official article here for more details. Now I am still using Office 2019 because new things in version 2021 are not enough to convince me to upgrade to it. Perhaps I will consider it again in the future but not now.
Download and install Office 2021
First, make sure that the operating system version you are running is Windows 10 or later before you get started. There is no way to install Office 2021 on Windows 8 or earlier.
Just go here to get the official download link from Microsoft. The size of the IMG file is 4.2 GB. Double click on the file to mount it to a virtual drive on your PC once the download is complete. Then follow the instructions of the Setup Wizard to install Office 2021 on your Windows.
This might take a while, please wait.
After the installation completes, just open an Office app to verify some basic information. Just skip the product key option by clicking the X button at the top right corner.
As you can see in the screenshot below, I installed Office Professional Plus 2021 on my PC successfully and the trial license will expire in 7 days.
Activate Office 2021 for FREE using KMS client key
Method 1: Running CMD commands manually
Step 1.1: Open cmd program with administrator rights.
First, you need to open cmd in the admin mode, then run all commands below one by one.
Step 1.2: Get into the Office directory in cmd.
cd /d %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16
cd /d %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16If you install your Office in the ProgramFiles folder, the Office directory depends on the architecture of your OS. If you are not sure of this issue, just run both of the commands above. One of them will be not executed and an error message will be printed on the screen.
Step 1.3: Install Office 2021 volume license.
for /f %x in ('dir /b ..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2021VL_KMS*.xrm-ms') do cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\%x"This step is required. You can not install the KMS client product key of Office without a volume license.
Step 1.4: Activate your Office using the KMS key.
Make sure your device is connected to the internet, then run the following commands.
cscript ospp.vbs /setprt:1688
cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:6F7TH >nul
cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:FXYTK-NJJ8C-GB6DW-3DYQT-6F7TH
cscript ospp.vbs /sethst:107.175.77.7
cscript ospp.vbs /act
If you see the error 0xC004F074, it means that your internet connection is unstable or the server is busy. Please make sure your device is online and try the command “act” again until you succeed.
Here is all the text you will get in the command prompt window.
C:\Windows\system32>cd /d %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16
The system cannot find the path specified.
C:\Windows\system32>cd /d %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>for /f %x in ('dir /b ..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2021VL_KMS*.xrm-ms') do cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\%x"
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2021VL_KMS_Client_AE-ppd.xrm-ms"
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
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Installing Office license: ..\root\licenses16\proplus2021vl_kms_client_ae-ppd.xrm-ms
Office license installed successfully.
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---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2021VL_KMS_Client_AE-ul-oob.xrm-ms"
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
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Installing Office license: ..\root\licenses16\proplus2021vl_kms_client_ae-ul-oob.xrm-ms
Office license installed successfully.
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---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2021VL_KMS_Client_AE-ul.xrm-ms"
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
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Installing Office license: ..\root\licenses16\proplus2021vl_kms_client_ae-ul.xrm-ms
Office license installed successfully.
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---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /setprt:1688
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
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Successfully applied setting.
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---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:6F7TH >nul
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:FXYTK-NJJ8C-GB6DW-3DYQT-6F7TH
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
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<Product key installation successful>
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---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /sethst:107.175.77.7
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
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Successfully applied setting.
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---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /act
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
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Installed product key detected - attempting to activate the following product:
SKU ID: cd18ecc0-466a-45d4-8d2e-8c4fa48ae591
LICENSE NAME: Office 21, Office21ProPlus2021R_Grace edition
LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 21, RETAIL(Grace) channel
Last 5 characters of installed product key: PG343
ERROR CODE: 0xC004F017
ERROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the license is not installed.
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Installed product key detected - attempting to activate the following product:
SKU ID: fbdb3e18-a8ef-4fb3-9183-dffd60bd0984
LICENSE NAME: Office 21, Office21ProPlus2021VL_KMS_Client_AE edition
LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 21, VOLUME_KMSCLIENT channel
Last 5 characters of installed product key: 6F7TH
<Product activation successful>
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---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>
Congratulations! The activation was completed successfully.
Method 2: Using my pre-written batch script
This one is not recommended anymore due to the new update of Microsoft.
Step 2.1: Copy the script code below into a new text document.
@echo off
title Activate Microsoft Office 2021 (ALL versions) for FREE - MSGuides.com&cls&echo =====================================================================================&echo #Project: Activating Microsoft software products for FREE without additional software&echo =====================================================================================&echo.&echo #Supported products:&echo - Microsoft Office Standard 2021&echo - Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2021&echo.&echo.&(if exist "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs" cd /d "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16")&(if exist "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs" cd /d "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16")&(for /f %%x in ('dir /b ..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2021VL_KMS*.xrm-ms') do cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\%%x" >nul)&echo.&echo =====================================================================================&echo Activating your product...&cscript //nologo slmgr.vbs /ckms >nul&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /setprt:1688 >nul&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /unpkey:6F7TH >nul&set i=1&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /inpkey:FXYTK-NJJ8C-GB6DW-3DYQT-6F7TH >nul||goto notsupported
:skms
if %i% GTR 10 goto busy
if %i% EQU 1 set KMS=kms7.MSGuides.com
if %i% EQU 2 set KMS=107.175.77.7
if %i% GTR 2 goto ato
cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /sethst:%KMS% >nul
:ato
echo =====================================================================================&echo.&echo.&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /act | find /i "successful" && (echo.&echo =====================================================================================&echo.&echo #My official blog: MSGuides.com&echo.&echo #How it works: bit.ly/kms-server&echo.&echo #Please feel free to contact me at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns.&echo.&echo #Please consider supporting this project: donate.msguides.com&echo #Your support is helping me keep my servers running 24/7!&echo.&echo =====================================================================================&choice /n /c YN /m "Would you like to visit my blog [Y,N]?" & if errorlevel 2 exit) || (echo The connection to my KMS server failed! Trying to connect to another one... & echo Please wait... & echo. & echo. & set /a i+=1 & goto skms)
explorer "http://MSGuides.com"&goto halt
:notsupported
echo =====================================================================================&echo.&echo Sorry, your version is not supported.&echo.&goto halt
:busy
echo =====================================================================================&echo.&echo Sorry, the server is busy and can't respond to your request. Please try again.&echo.
:halt
pause >nul
Step 2.2: Save this text file as a cmd file. (Eg. 1click.cmd).
Step 2.3: Run the cmd file in admin mode.
Step 2.4: Check the activation status again.
Done! Your product is activated successfully now.
More information:
Here is the KMS client key of Office 2021: FXYTK-NJJ8C-GB6DW-3DYQT-6F7TH.
The Office 2021 KMS license is valid for 180 days only but it can be renewed automatically so you needn’t worry so much about the period.
If you would have any questions or concerns, please leave your comments. I would be glad to explain in more details. Thank you so much for all your feedback and support!
your youtube channel name please
how Microsoft office become slow?
may be your problem is some where else bro;
— cause of virus
— cause of low ram
— cause of hard disk full
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP
YOU DONE GREAT JOB ONLY CAN UNDERSTAND THE ONE WHO HAVE THE PROBLEM;
I just found out about this site, G*d bless you all, you guys are doing great; I was able to fix my activation issue.
My QUESTION:
I once had Office 2016, I activated it through Command Prompt, but later the app failed, that is, when I typed a word, I had to wait for many seconds to type another one, what could have been the problem? However, I later uninstalled it and downloaded the Office 2021 version. Could you give me an answer so that I can handle a similar issue should it happen again?
“FXYTK-NJJ8C-GB6DW-3DYQT-6F7TH” When I use the KMS client key of Office 2021 This product key is for the currently installed volume license version of the Microsoft Office LTSC Professional Plus 2021 application. A warning appears, “Contact your administrator to use this product key.” What can we do? Thank you very much.
Thank you so much Guang! Your step-by-step instruction is very clear, the cmd indicated , but when I opened the Word it said (Product Activation Failed), I get into the Account it said: Activation Required.
I clicked on the “Change Product Key” and enter the following keys:
Here is the KMS client key of Office 2021: FXYTK-NJJ8C-GB6DW-3DYQT-6F7TH
But it still didn’t work. Then I following the instruction Step 2.1: Copy the script code below into a new text document.
It was activated until I opened the Word the 2nd time, and everytime it requires activation again.
I spent the whole day trying many methods on Google with no result. lease Help!
I use Windows 10 Pro Plus 64 bit
Mẫn Linh
I keep getting this error. What can I do?
“Sorry, the server is busy and can’t respond to your request. Please try again.”
Thank You sir method 100% working .
but sir kindly keep eye on your method
if this expire kindly upgrade the activation method
Thanks again for this wanderful service
It worked! Thanks a lot! I have a doubt though, I have activated the LTSC Professional Plus activation previously with another YouTuber’s method, and it only worked for one month. Is this method permanent activation or is it just a temporary method?
Hi… I used the .cmd method and it actived office 2021 perfectly…. but (always a but) I noticed my office became veeeery slow, (word and excel). I uninstalled the 2021 and installed an old 2013. For my surprise, after the installation it already came activated, but with the same slowlyness than the 2021 was. How can I eliminate completely the activation method?
how Microsoft office become slow?
may be your problem is some where else bro;
— cause of virus
— cause of low ram
— cause of hard disk full
Slow, for example, in Word, you type and it takes a little long to the letters appear in the doc, or in Excel, after you type enter, it takes some time to the cursor pass to other field….
I felt very strange…. the notebook is a Dell G15, with 16 Gb Ram, no virus and lots of space in SSD
I had an office 2013 installed with another activation method and it wasworking perfect, but each 3 or 4 months i had to reactivate it, and I changed to 2019 with this activation and it became slowly as I mentioned. I uninstalled the 2019 and reinstalled the 2013, but it already came activated and with the same “slowlyness”problem
you re great guys , so d**n great
two days looking for a solution the only helpful way
thank’s a lot
thanks for providing me with the guide it is elementary to activate the Office 21
this will help me
This was really easy to implement. Thank you very much
Thank you so much, it’s all good for me by using your method. Big credit to you!
Hi ! im getting this error :
“An error ocurred while making the connection.
ERROR CODE: -2147217394”
How can i fix this ? pls
it says activated but detects as not genuine
Excellent method. My office 2021 is activated with 3 minutes using that method.
Greetings, I seem to have a problem with the activation. When I run the last commands, the command “act” does not run with the others all together and I need to run it after but it seems that it won’t do the trick. I get the correct messages from the cmd but my office is not activated. I tried running the command “act” over and over again, I get the “Product activation successfully” but the office is still not activated . Also, I made sure I am connecting to the internet. Thanks for the help in advance!
You are fuckn genius
Nice! It works. Was confused why it wasn’t working. Turns out, my OneNote app was running. Now it works!
Thanks it works. be sure that you should close office apps during this process
Hi,
I get stuck in this process. “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /setprt:168”
It is said no KMS license were found in the system.
What mistake on the step that I do wrong?
Thank you
setprt:1688 not 168
Is it safe to leave Real-time protection on? Windows always automatically turns it on. I have to turn it off every time after reboot when using KMSpico.
Thanks, thanks, and many thanks
i have a problem: i run line/line the method 1, and the office es free. After close de pc, and when i start, the office is not activate. it`s got date finish.
do you know where is the problem?
Superb!!!
Thank you for this fantastic resources
Man, this post is so helpful! Just followed the steps and saved me some serious money from paying Microsoft for a license to use Excel… You are the man, sir!
I don’t know why when i activate it it will work but when i close and open it. it will say not activated can you please help?
Any idea why this error pops up?
ERROR CODE: 0x80041017
ERROR DESCRIPTION: Run the following: cscript ospp.vbs /ddescr:0x80041017
THANK YOU SO MUCH. It absolutely worked, so easy and simple!
Thanks a lot, Loved it!
Office is and stays activated, but since (likely an MS Win11 update) — not genuine notification — ?
Is there a way to get rid of it?
P.S.: Disabling notification did not work, Nor changing privacy settings in Office ..
just try to run it again from step 1.2
I am having trouble please help me.
It says the product is unlicensed…..
I need this please helpp
Thank you for this guide.
I created .cmd file and then create a task on task scheduler so that the script will run automatically