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- I have bought two licenses for
Office 2016 Home & Student
(the permanent licenses, not the 365 subscription). - Due to some auto-signup, cookies and product-keys-encoded-in-a-url supplied by the vendor and also my ignorance regarding the modern-software-licensing-mechanisms, I accidentally registered two licenses for one Microsoft Office
account A
(created ad hoc). - I have found no option, how to transfer one of the activations to another
account B
.
Is there any method, how to do it?
Worked for me just now for Office 2016 Home and Business for Mac. – Chad Skeeters – 2017-08-01T22:22:05.720
1If your Office is an OEM version that came preinstalled on a workstation, this will most certainly NOT be easy. Microsoft requires a proof of purchase for transfers and they don't have any access to OEM licenses to verify on the back end. So unless you have a copy of the receipt that shows that Office was included with the OEM device, you might be in a very tight spot. – Thomas – 2018-04-18T00:47:14.530
As of today, they (both MS support and Office tech support) refused to transfer Office 2016 licence to another account as it is "impossible". They can only transfer subscriptions, not perpetual licences. – scrutari – 2019-10-16T12:03:42.777
I can only say you have been very lucky. I just tried to to this, went through three different Microsoft agents and did not get the key removed from my account. – Vladimir – 2020-01-12T09:54:44.223