How to activate Ultimate Suite for Excel license
As soon as you purchase your Ultimate Suite license, you will receive an email with your personal license key. Have this email at hand before starting the activation process.
To activate your license, follow the instructions below.
Ultimate Suite: Start the Product Activation Wizard
To start the activation process, open Microsoft Excel, then go to the Ablebits Data tab and click the leftmost Buy Now button. From the dropdown menu, select the Enter License Key option.
Activate your license
- In Step 1 of the Product Activation Wizard, click Next.
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In Step 2, you can choose between automatic and manual activation.
- Automatic activation process lets you activate the add-in quickly and easily. An Internet connection is required.
- Use Manual activation process if automatic activation fails. An Internet connection is also required.
Select the activation method you prefer and click Next.
Automatic activation process
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In Step 3 of the Product Activation Wizard, enter your license name and license key into the corresponding boxes. Then click Next.
Note. Make sure to copy and paste the entire license key without leaving out any symbols.
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Your license is activated. Click Finish, close Microsoft Excel, and then open it again.
Note. If automatic activation fails for any reason, try the Manual activation process.
Manual activation process
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In Step 3 of the Product Activation Wizard, enter your license name and license key into the corresponding boxes. To get your activation code, click Go.
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The Activate your license key page will open in your browser. Click Get activation code.
- The activation code will appear on the page. To copy it, click Copy to clipboard.
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Go back to the Product Activation Wizard and paste the activation code into the corresponding box. Then click Next.
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Your license is now activated. Click Finish. Close Microsoft Excel, then open it again.
Troubleshooting
If there is no internet connection
Sometimes you may need to activate your license on a computer that has no Internet connection. You can still do this, but you'll need access to another computer that is connected to the Internet.
- On the computer where you want to activate your license, select Manual activation process in Step 2 of the Product Activation Wizard and click Next.
- In Step 3 of the Product Activation Wizard, enter your license name and license key. Then copy and save the hardware ID.
- On the computer connected to the Internet, open the Activate your license key page at https://www.ablebits.com/support/activate-key.php.
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Enter your license key and hardware ID and click Get activation code.
- When the activation code appears on the page, click Copy to clipboard to copy it. Then save the code so you can enter it on the other computer.
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Go back to the computer where you want to activate your license. In Step 3 of the Product Activation Wizard, enter the activation code into the corresponding box and click Next.
- The license is now activated. Click Finish, close Microsoft Excel, and open it anew.
Activation limit exceeded
When you activate your license using any of the methods described above, you might see a message saying that the activation limit has been exceeded. This happens because, after you install Ultimate Suite and activate your license, our activation server associates the license key with your computer's hardware ID. When you install the add-in on another computer or reinstall it on the same computer and activate the license, the activation server treats this as a new activation or reactivation.
If the activation or reactivation limit is exceeded, your license key may be blocked automatically. In this case, contact us at support@ablebits.com.
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