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I have been having issues since I tried to activate my copy of Office 2010 using KMS or MAK.  I noticed this evening that my copy was going to go belly up in 5 days so I found a method via script to overcome this.

If your having a similar problem (product will not allow you to enter a LIC key) do the following:

Open a command prompt with elevated privs (administrator) and navigate to Program Files\Microosft Office\Office 14

run cscript ospp.vbs -dstatus  <then hit enter>

Processing will take about 10 seconds and you will be given the list of your products and it will show them all unlicensed.

Go to Connect.microsoft.com and get the MAK key from the downloads section and run the following script

cscript ospp.vbs -inpkey:<enter the MAK Key>  Hit enter

Should run successfully...close down any office apps and when you open it will ask you to run activation... it already has the key so your activation should succeed.

Hope this helps