As you know, office suites of any generation produced by Microsoft are paid software products, although they can work without mandatory license registration using a basic set of functions and tools. However, the requirement to activate Microsoft Office 2013 or some other reminder release will haunt the user on the heels. By our standards, the cost of an office suite is quite high, so users are looking for ways to circumvent the restrictions placed on the programs that make up such suites.
Microsoft Office Product Activation Overview
In general, if you ask questions about how to activate Office 2013 or any other release, you can do it in several ways. What will this give the end user? First of all, this concerns the full functionality of any and the applications present in the set. In addition, if you fail to complete the registration on time, the situation is not ruled out in which the currently active application is suddenly not closed by itself, and the user, without saving the edited document, will not lose important data. It is clear that nobody wants to type the same text in Word or re-enter complex formulas in Excel. But how to activate MS Office 2013 with minimal cost? By and large, an ordinary user can be offered two basic methods, one of which is legal, and the second is not.
Using an Office 2013 activation key (license key)
So, let's start with legal actions that do not violate the intellectual rights to this software product.
When officially purchasing an office suite with an installation distribution recorded on a disk, the product code or the so-called special key is always indicated on the box. You can activate Office 2013 with it even at the stage of installing the package, when at one of the stages it will be proposed to enter the code in a special field. You can skip this step and complete the activation after installation (there is nothing wrong with that).
When downloading the distribution kit from an official Internet resource, after paying for it, the key can be sent to the email address specified during registration, which usually corresponds to the Microsoft account.
How to activate Office 2013 on Windows 10 through a Microsoft account when transferring a package to another PC or laptop?
As for the process of entering a license in an already installed and functioning set, you can use the special “Wizard”, and then specify activation via the Internet.
In this case, you must first switch from the registration account of the current user to the Microsoft account. In the same "account", if you, for example, transfer the "Office" to another computer terminal, you must go to the "Office" section, and then activate the process of the same name in the installation information subsection by clicking the install button.
At the end of the registration of the software product will be done automatically, and re-enter the key is not required (it will automatically be matched to your existing account).
Can I activate individual applications?
But some users in their questions go even further, because for the majority in everyday work, only text and table editors are enough. This is where problems arise that are no longer associated with how to activate Office 2013, but with how to remove restrictions only on installed applications. In principle, there is also a way out. If you do not want or are not able to purchase the necessary programs in an official way, there is nothing easier than using the search for the appropriate keys on the Internet. Despite the fact that Microsoft specialists constantly state that all licenses are checked for their official origin or registration, in fact this is very far from the truth.
Thus, you can use the keys that are in the same Runet laid out in the public domain, and with their help activate, say, only Word and Excel.
Activating the entire office suite with KMSAuto Net
But what if you installed the full package with additional programs included in it, but you do not have a license, or you can’t buy it for financial reasons? How to activate Office 2013 in this case? In this situation, if I may say so, semi-legal utilities come to the rescue, allowing you to activate not only any office suite, but also any modification of the operating system itself. Despite the fact that such programs can be called illegal or violating intellectual property rights, they are used very often. One such application is the notorious KMSAuto Net activator. You can download it anywhere, because sites with links to downloads of this applet are never blocked, and the notorious “Defender” does not react to running the program in Windows.
After starting the portable application in the form of a single EXE-file (on behalf of the administrator), simply press the activation button, select the activation of the “Office” and confirm the operation. In some versions of the activator, you may sometimes be asked to create a task in the "Task Scheduler". We must agree with this. The task itself is created only for the fact that re-activation was carried out every ten days. In the latest versions of this software, such actions are not required.
Using the KMSpico Application
Now a few words about how to activate Office 2013 using the KMSpico utility.
In essence, it works similarly to the previous one, and it’s enough for the user to select the activation of the “Office”. In general, all KMS programs (as you probably noticed, their names are identical in terms of initial abbreviations) work on the same principles, and the user needs a minimum of actions related to the correct start of the program executable itself and the choice of software product for which you need to perform activation.
Disabling software limited functionality mode
With how to activate Office 2013, figured out. Finally, two words about the situation when the user observes an inscription in the same Word with a notification about the limited use mode. Many believe that this has to do with pirated activation or unregistered versions of the Office. In fact, this is not so. This mode simply limits the use of the latest software tools if you are trying to work with documents created or saved in earlier versions of the office suite.
You can fix this problem quite simply by selecting the conversion item located to the right in the information section called through the file menu. Also, when saving a document, you can use the choice of an outdated format, but be sure to uncheck the box for supporting compatibility with previous versions of Word or another editor used.