How to Get Microsoft Office 2024 for Free Legally in 2025 (Full tutorial)

Are you searching for ways to activate Microsoft Office on your Windows PC? In this article I’ll guide you step by step to downloading, installing, and activating Microsoft Office completely free. Let’s begin!

Disclaimer

Follow these easy steps, and please don’t skip any step if you really want to activate Microsoft Office for free.

Microsoft Office LTSC Professional Plus 2024 Preview 

Microsoft Office LTSC stands for Long Term Service Channel. This is a specific release version, mainly for big organizations and companies that buy a one-time license for permanent use. Different from the monthly subscription-based version of Microsoft 365. Let’s get started!

Step 1 | Download and Install Office Development Tool

Office Development Tool, also known as ODT, is used to download and establish click-to-run models of Office, like Microsoft 365, for interests to client computers. You can download this tool from the official site of Microsoft Hub.

ODT link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49117

 

 

Install ODT in Windows

 

 

After downloading the ODT.exe file from Microsoft Hub, copy the selected .exe file by pressing right-click on the mouse or pressing CTRL+C on your keyboard.

Now go to the C drive or wherever Windows is installed on your computer and create a new folder in this location.

Rename the folder with Office 2024 and hit enter on your keyboard to open this folder.

Let’s paste the copied .exe file using the same instructions or press CTRL+V to paste directly into the folder.

Select the ODT.exe file and press the right click on your mouse. After that, click on Run as administrator. You will get a pop-up on the screen; click on Yes to allow the .exe file to run in your Windows.

Click on the checkbox to accept Microsoft Terms & Conditions and click on the Continue button on the opposite side of the checkbox.

It will ask you to select the location of the folder where you want to store the extracted files. Select the Office 2024 folder that we created earlier and hit the OK button.

Step 2 | Download configuration file and run setup with CMD.

Download the configuration file from this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z2hxct5vG_Yn0iiaQxR_jGsDbVHsVIVJ/view

After downloading the configuration.xml file, copy and paste it in the Office 2024 folder. Make sure to recheck the file extension; it should be .XML.

Now stay in the Office 2024 folder and click on the address bar on the upper side of your windows. Remove selected using backspace on your keyboard.

After removing text, type “CMD” in the address bar and press the enter button on your keyboard. It will open a command prompt window.

Now copy the selected text below and paste it in the command prompt and press enter to run the setup.exe.

Instructions for running setup file: setup.exe /configure configuration.xml

Please be patient; this may take a while to download & install necessary files from Microsoft servers to your computer. In the meantime you can read our latest articles on various topics that you may find interesting.

After a while, you will get this pop-up window. It means you have finished the second step correctly, and now you can move to the third and final step of getting Microsoft Office 2024 for free.

 

Step 3 | Activating Microsoft Office 2024 for Free

 

After finishing the installation process, you need to activate Microsoft Office. Click on the start menu and open any Microsoft app like Word or Excel.

 

After opening the Microsoft Office app, move your mouse cursor to the left side corner and click on the account button. Once you did it, click on the change product key option.

 

After that, copy the product key “Y63J7-9RNDJ-GD3BV-BDKBP-HH966” and paste it into the box. Now click on the activate button and close the window. After closing the app window, reopen it again from the start menu.

 

 

 

After reopening the Microsoft app, you’ll get this pop-up dialogue box. Select the first option and click on the “Next” button.

 

Congrats! You have successfully activated Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 Preview for free.

 

Note

Microsoft Office preview versions are not for long-term use. They are very time limited and provided for testing purposes only. Once they release the full version of Office 2024, you need to purchase the full license from them.

 

FAQs

 

#Q1. Couldn’t install with error code: 0-2048(0) when you were trying to run setup.exe /configure configuration.xml?

Ans: Push the Windows button and search for command prompt. Run the command prompt as an administrator and click on Yes on the pop-up screen. Write “cd C:\Office 2024 (write the exact location of your Office 2024) and press the enter button on your keyboard. Write “setup.exe /configure configuration.xml” and press the enter button on your keyboard.

 

#Q2.  Are you facing an error like, Your installation cannot be completed because you have activated up to the limit of multiple activation keys?

Ans: Just ignore the message and use it for free. If it blocks, just register with your phone number; mostly it works for everyone.

 

#Q3. Microsoft Products can’t be installed at the same time?

Ans: Delete any Microsoft apps from your desktop computer.

 

#Q4. What is the product key to activate Microsoft office for free?

Ans: Y63J7-9RNDJ-GD3BV-BDKBP-HH966

 

#Q5: How to get Microsoft Office for free?

Ans: Visit Filerax.com and search for Microsoft Office. Read and follow the instructions for activating Microsoft Office 2024 for completely free.

 

Please leave a comment if you find it helpful. If you get stuck in the process somewhere, comment below.