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Your options to retrieve the account and password you use to sign in and install or reinstall Office, or to manage your Office 365 subscription vary depending if your product is an Office for home or Office for business product.

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Click here to see what products are included under Office for home or Office for business.

Tip: If you have Office Professional Plus through your company's subscription to the Home Use Program, see Office through the Home Use Program (HUP).

Office for home

If your Office product is one of the follow, you have an Office for home product. This can be an Office 365 subscription, or a one-time purchase of Office or individual Office application. These products are usually associated with a personal Microsoft account.

Office 365 subscriptions: The following products include the fully installed Office applications.

Office 365 Home
Office 365 Personal
Office 365 University

Office 2019, Office 2016, or Office 2013 versions available as one-time purchases: The following products include the fully installed Office applications.

Office Home & Student
Office Home & Business
Office Professional

Stand-alone Office 2019, 2016, or 2013 apps available as one-time purchases

Word
Excel
PowerPoint
OneNote*
Outlook
Access
Publisher
Project
Visio

Tip: *The desktop version of OneNote is only available 2016 and 2013 versions. Beginning with the release of Office 2019, OneNote for Windows 10 is the default OneNote experience for Office 365 and Office 2019 customers. See the FAQ.

Office for business

If your Office product is one of the following, you have an Office for business product. These products are usually associated with a work or school account, and your Office license (if your subscription has one) came from the organization where you work or go to school.

Office 365 Subscriptions: The following products include the fully installed Office applications.

Office 365 Business
Office 365 Business Premium

Office 365 A5

Office 365 ProPlus
Office 365 Enterprise E3
Office 365 Enterprise E4
Office 365 Enterprise E5

Office 365 Nonprofit Business Premium
Office 365 Nonprofit E3
Office 365 Nonprofit E5

Office 365 U.S. Government Community G3
Office 365 U.S. Government Community G5

Project Online Professional
Project Online Premium

Visio Online Plan 2

Office 365 Subscriptions without fully installed Office applications:

Tip: With these Office 365 subscriptions, there are no desktop applications to download and install, but in most cases you can still access and use online versions of Office apps in your web browser. Learn more Free Office Online apps.

Office 365 Business Essentials
Office 365 Enterprise E1
Office 365 A1
Office 365 Nonprofit Business Essentials
Office 365 Nonprofit E1
Office 365 U.S. Government G1
Project Online Essentials
Visio Online Plan 1

Volume license versions of Office 2019, Office 2016, or Office 2013

Office Professional Plus

Office for homeOffice for business

The account you associated with your Office for home product is the same email you used when you bought or activated Office the first time, or what you use to sign in and install or manage Office from your account portal.

For help with this username or password, select from the options below:

Forgot your username

Open a newer Office app to see your username
Look for emails from Microsoft about Office

Forgot Microsoft Excel Password Encryption

Reset or change your password

Reset your Microsoft account password
Change your Microsoft account password

Account Issues

Check what you typed
You have more than one account with Office
Your account is correct, but it's not working
Switch between accounts

Outlook email accounts

Change your password in Outlook.com
Change or update your email password in Outlook on a PC
Update your password in Outlook 2016 for Mac

Still need help?

If none of these options help and you still can't remember your Microsoft account, see When you can't sign in to your Microsoft account for additional things to try.

The email account your work or school assigned to you is the same account associated with the copy of Office you got through your work or school. For help with this username or password, select from the options below:

Forgot your username

Contact your admin
Open an Office 2016 app to see your username

Reset or change your password

Get your admin to reset password
Reset your own password
Change your password

For Office 365 in China or Germany

You use Office 365 operated by 21Vianet in China
You use Office 365 Germany

Switch between accounts

Contact your admin for your username and password

Contact your admin who can retrieve the username and reset the password for your work or school account.

If Office 2016 is installed, open any Office app to see your username

If you have Office 2016 installed, in most cases you can view the work or school account associated with Office by opening a desktop Office application.

1. Open any Office application, for example Word or Excel.
2. Select File. If you didn't open an existing document, you may need to create a new document to see the File menu.
3. From the navigation on the left, select Account.
4. Under Product Information is the name of your Office product and the phrase, Belongs to: along with the account associated with this version of Office.
   If you don't see Belongs to:, select Update Options > Update Now. After the update is complete, close the app and then reopen it. Look for the Belongs to: account.

Microsoft Excel Forgot Protection Password

You know your username, but forgot the password and need to reset it

If your admin has given you permission to reset your password go to, passwordreset.microsoftonline.com/. Contact your admin if you don't have permission to change your password.

If your admin has given you permission to reset your password go to, passwordreset.activedirectory.windowsazure.cn/. Contact your admin if you don't have permission to change your password.

If your admin has given you permission to reset your password go to, passwordreset.microsoftonline.com/. Contact your admin if you don't have permission to change your password.

You know your password, but you want to change it

You can only do this if your admin has given you permission to update your password in Office 365.

1. Go to www.office.com/signin and sign in with your work or school account username and existing password.

Go to login.partner.microsoftonline.cn and sign in with your work or school account username and existing password.