How to activate Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

It has been just a few days, less than a week since Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Office 2010 Beta for the general audience. By now, many users would have already downloaded the latest sensation from Microsoft Office family of products. One thing which every single user has to go through is, activating the Office 2010 Beta edition. So I thought, it would be useful to list out the steps that you need to activate your product.

Steps to activate Office 2010 Beta

1. Open Microsoft Word 2010 Beta.
2. Open Backstage view by clicking on the File tab.
3. Click Help in the set of tabs on the left.
4. Shift your focus to the right side of the screen and click on Change Product Key option
5. Enter the Multiple Activation Key (MAK) which was provided to you, when you downloaded Office 2010 Beta.
6. Check the box to activate automatically or restart the app to activate using the activation dialog box.

Voila, that is it. You just updated your whole suit of Office 2010 Beta by entering the MAK key in Microsoft Word 2010 Beta.

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