ISSUE:

When you select the option to activate Office by telephone, you may see the following error:

Telephone activation is no longer supported for your product.

Note: This issue impacts Office non-subscribers only—those who purchased the product as a one-time purchase. For more information, see What's the difference between Microsoft 365 and Office 2016?

STATUS: WORKAROUND

To work around this error, use the following phone numbers to activate Office.

Select a country/region

If a phone number isn't working, please leave us a comment using the Was this information helpful? section at the bottom of this topic and include the phone number and country/region of the non-working  number.

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