An Office 365 Personal subscription allows you install Office 365 on one PC or Mac, whereas an Office 365 Home subscription can be used to install Office on up to 5 PCs or Macs.
If you have been using Office 365 on one of your PCs but now want to move the Office 365 to another PC, you will have to transfer your Office 365 license to another PC.
In order to transfer your Office 365 license to another PC, you need to first deactivate Office 365 installation on your current PC and then download, install and activate Office 365 on the new PC where you would like to use your Office 365.
Transfer Office 365 to another Windows PC or computer
In this guide, we will see how to legally move your Office 365 subscription from one PC to another PC.
Step 1: On your new PC where you want to transfer Office 365 license to, open the official Office page, sign-in to your account using the email address which you used while buying your Office 365 subscription.
Step 2: At the home page, click on your account user picture located at the top-right and then click My account.
Step 3: Under Install section, click the Install button.
Step 4: Under Install information section, you can see all your PCs and other devices where Office 365 is currently installed and activated. To deactivate Office 365 on one of your PCs, click the Deactivate install link next to your PC’s name.
Step 5: Click Deactivate button when you see the following confirmation dialog to deactivate Office 365 on your current PC. You may now uninstall Office 365 from your current PC.
Step 6: Now, click the Install button located on the same page to download Office 365 setup. Once downloaded, run the setup file to begin downloading files required for installation. The setup will automatically install Office 365 on your PC. And if you want download the full setup, refer to our how to download Office 365 offline full installer guide.
Step 7: Finally, once Office 365 is installed, launch Word or any other Office application. When you’re asked to enter your email address to activate your copy of Office 365, enter the email address which you used to buy Office 365 subscription. That’s it!
VIRANSH BHARDWAJ says
I Have a student id subscription provided by my university howver Upon loggin in to the official page i am unable to find deacticate option
Steve says
I am shortly buying an iMac, can I transfer my Office 365 from my existing Windows 10 laptop to the iMac bearing in mind that they are totally different operating systems?
Shelly says
What if the reason you have a new laptop is because the old one crashed? How do you deactivate it when the laptop doesn’t work anymore?
margaret swan says
I was expecting to spend a lot of time figuring this out. However, it was very straightforward with clear instructions. The transfer was successful in no time!
Thank you for making this so easy!
Margaret
Ian Kenyon says
At my place I have 4 x laptops which my kids use and 2 x PC’s, one is mine and one is my partners. I already have office 2016 installed on MY PC and will upgrade it to office 2018 when it becomes available later this year. I have 2 x questions;
1.I’ve purchased 3 x copies of office 365 (HOME versions) for my kids and partner to be able to use. I’m told that I can enter the three licence codes one after the other and it will automatically give me 3 years for each of the 5 laptop/PC’s. is this correct?
2. I’m already running office 2016 on MY PC, I do NOT want to use office 365 on THAT PC, I want to be able to install/run on the 4 x other laptops and my partners PC. Can I activate office 365 from MY PC using MY account, then install it on each of the other 5 x PC’s or if I activate it on my PC, will this kill my version of office 2016
Thanks
Ian
Anne Fletcher says
What if you have changed email address in the meantime and no longer use the old email address used to install Microsoft Office?
John Martin says
What if you didn’t deactivate the installation on your old pc before setting up an additional/new one on your new pc?
Is it still possible to deactivate the old account on the old pc without un-installing on the new one and having to go through the whole process again?
Ellen says
Quite possibly the easiest ‘how to’ I have ever done! Thank you for making what I thought would be a difficult task really simple.
Richard Lee says
Excellent tutorial – clear and concise. Can I make a suggestion for the transfer process though, rather than clicking deactivate and then install – why not add a [transfer to this machine] button which does the deactivation and install in one click (or two with a confirmation box).
Cheers,
Richard