Review the Software License Agreement and click Continueģ. Launch application and click Enter your product keyĢ. To activate Office Mac 2011, follow these steps:ġ. If you choose to not to activate after 15 days, the product will not launch and the following message will be displayed: When launching an application it will remind you to activate with the message: If you choose to click on the Activate Later button, the product will run for 15 days only. Product Activation is required to use the product.

The goal of Product Activation is to reduce a form of piracy known as “casual copying” or “softlifting.Īfter you activate the software product, a specific product key is assigned to the computer hardware on which you installed the product. All previous versions of Office for Mac, other then trial, did not require Activation.

Activation is a new feature in Office Mac 2011.