Office Activation Rearm: Evaluate Microsoft Office 2010, Office 2013 For 180 Days

If you have installed Microsoft Office 2010 or Microsoft Office 2013 and haven’t yet activated it, you will be glad to know that Microsoft allows users to extend the trial for 180 days. You can download Office 2010 or Office 2013 with 60 days trial (See the related links displayed in this article) edition. Normally, after 30 days of free trial, you have to activate Microsoft Office with a product key to continue using it. But, do you know that Microsoft allows you to extend Office trial period for another 30 days, and not just once but five times? You can rearm and use Microsoft Office 2010 and extend the trial for up to 6 months or 180 days. You just need to just use “Office rearm activation” process. Something similar to Microsoft Windows 7 rearm that lets you use the operating system for up to 120 days more. After this grace period, Office 2010 will automatically start functioning in reduced functionality mode. This will remind the user that the software needs to be activated.

Why Microsoft Office rearm activation even exists? A little background about it

Microsoft requires all installed copy of Office to be activated, including licenses sold through volume licensing. The Office rearm function is there to actually to help the corporate customers. Microsoft allows customers to extend the activation deadline for five times, thus giving 30 days extra after each rearm. If Office rearm is timed correctly at the last day of current 30 day cycle’s end, theoretically, the five Office rearm activation can extend the free usage of Office 2010 up to 6 months or 180 days.

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Office Trial Extender: Easily Rearm Office 2010, Office 2013 And Extend Evaluation From 30 Days To 180 Days

Another easy and simple method to rearm Office 2010 or Office 2013 is to use Office Trial Extender. This little freeware does the same above method automatically . will help you extend Microsoft Office trial period for another 30 days. Thus, if you rearm Office on the last day before it has to be activated that makes a total evaluation time of 6 x 30 = 180 days.to 180 days. It will take the pain down of doing the manual work (as shown above). It can be used to execute the rearm command by simply clicking on a single button “Rearm“.

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This is much faster and offers less hassle for novice users. It requires the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 for running and can be easily downloaded directly from the developer’s website.

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Extend Microsoft Office 2010 Trial Up To 180 Days Without Activating?

  • To rearm Office 2010 and get another 30 days of free usage, simply, run the OSPPREARM.EXE command file at the following folder:
    %Program Files%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\
  • You can open a command prompt window (Windows 7 or Vista users should open an elevated command prompt window), and type the following command:
    C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\OSPPREARM.EXE
  • If you are using 64-bit Windows OS and have installed 32-bit Office 2010, then you will need to run the following command in command prompt:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\OSPPREARM.EXE
  • And the path of the file is located at:
    %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\

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