“Unlicensed Product” problem using Office 365 Subscription

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At some point, Office 2013 will report that the Microsoft Office 2013 Suite installed is unlicensed even though your subscription is still valid. It will display a red “Unlicensed Product” message at the top of the Microsoft Office 2013 application. Reactivating it is not very straightforward.

Provided you still have a valid Office 365 subscription, do the following to easily reactivate:

  1. Close all opened Microsoft Office 2013 Application.
  2. Run Microsoft Word 2013 as Administrator.
  3. Create a new Blank Document.
  4. Go to File -> Account and then Sign out.
  5. Close Microsoft Word 2013.
  6. Run Microsoft Word 2013 as Administrator again.
  7. Go to File -> Account and then Sign In.
  8. Close all opened Microsoft Office 2013 Application.
  9. Normally open any Microsoft Office 2013 application and the red “Unlicensed Product” should disappear.

Worst case scenario if the above procedure will not work is to Uninstall Microsoft Office 2013, Sign in to Microsoft Online Portal to reinstall Office 2013.