Hi everyone. In this video, I'm going to show you how to download, install, and activate a legitimate copy of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 Preview for free. Yes, you heard it right, for free.
We will get all the installation files directly from Microsoft's website and then install it using command line. For quick access, I have put the links to the two Microsoft webpages that we need for this installation on this video's description. The whole process consists of five major steps, which I will go through step by step in details. Alright, let's get started. The first step is to uninstall any existing previous version of Office on your PC, so this would only be applicable if you do have one.
To uninstall the previous version of your Office, right-click the Windows Start menu button and then click Settings. On the Settings menu, click Apps, and then click Installed Apps, or if you are on Windows 10 or older version of Windows 11, click Apps and Features. On the following tab, type Office on the search apps bar.
and you should see your current Microsoft Office on the search result. For example, in my case here, I have an Office LTSC Professional Plus 2021. Click the Overflow menu button on the right of your Microsoft Office name, and then click Uninstall. Simply follow the guided instructions to remove your current version of Office.
If you also have a Microsoft Office 365 app, you may uninstall that app too. Alright, Once your previous version of Office is successfully removed, we are ready to do the second step. But before that, to make this tutorial clearer and easier to follow, let's create a folder named Office 2024 on the desktop to store all the required setup files later. So now open the link to the Microsoft Office Deployment Tool on this video's description and then click the Download button to download the Office Deployment Tool. Once successfully downloaded, look for the downloaded file, right-click the file, and then click Run as Administrator.
If the Windows User Account Control pops up, simply click Yes. Accept the Microsoft Software License Terms, and then click Continue. On the following dialog, select the Office 2024 folder we created just now on the desktop, and then click OK. Now open our Office 2024 folder on desktop, and you should see four configuration files of type XML and an executable file named Setup. Out of this five files, we only need the Setup file, so we just delete the four configuration files.
Alright, now we move on to the third step, which is to create an Office Deployment Configuration file of type XML. To do that, open the link to the Office LTSC 2024 Preview page, which I've also put on this video's description. On the Install Office LTSC Preview page, scroll down and look for the exampleconfiguration.xml file.
Click the copy button at the top right corner of the XML code snippet panel to copy the Office Deployment Configuration file template. Now click the Windows Start Menu button. type Notepad on the search bar, and then press enter to open the Notepad app.
On the Notepad, right-click anywhere on the new page, and then click paste to paste the configuration file template we just copied from the webpage. For this tutorial, I'm not going to install Vizio and Microsoft Project, so I will remove the Vizio and Project product elements from this configuration file. Now go back to the Install Office LTSC Preview page, and look for the Use KMS to Activate section.
Select the Office product key, right-click on it, and and then click Copy. Then go back to our Office Deployment Configuration file on the notepad. Select the PID key value, right-click on it, and then click Paste to paste the Office product key we just copied from the webpage.
And before I continue, just to make sure that your configuration file is correct, please make sure that it looks exactly like this. Now click File, and then Save As. On the File Save As dialog, first select our Office 2024 folder on the desktop. Then type configuration.xml as the file name. And on the Save as Type, select All Files.
Finally, click Save to save this XML elements tree as our Office 2024 deployment configuration file. Now, if we open the File Explorer and go to our Office 2024 folder, we should have these two files. These are the only files that we need to run the Office installation online. Alright, so now we've come to the fourth step, which is to execute this Office deployment tool on the command prompt to download and install the Office 2024 based on this configuration file.
To do that, click the Windows Start menu button, type cmd on the search bar, and then on the Command Prompts menu, click Run as Administrator. If you don't see the Run as Administrator option, right-click the Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator. Go back to our Office 2024 folder on the File Explorer, click on the empty area of the address bar, right-click on the highlighted path, and then click Copy. Now go to the Command Prompt window.
type CD followed by a white space, and then right-click anywhere on the window to paste the path we have copied from the file explorer. Press enter on the keyboard to change the current directory to our office 2024 directory. Then type setup followed by a white space, slash configure followed by a white space, and then configuration.xml.
After that, simply press enter on the keyboard to start the office 2024 installation. This process is fully autonomous and does not require any intervention. Once done, click close.
and your Office 2024 is ready. Now let's open the Microsoft Word and Excel to verify our office installation. It's looking good.
Now let's check the product activation status. So it's already automatically activated, but it's activated using my previous Office 2019 license. If you encounter this same problem, don't worry. This is just the product name of the license used to activate our office. If we check the actual office product you're running, you would see that it's actually Microsoft Office LTSC Professional Plus 2024. And now if your office is not automatically activated, go back to the Install Office LTSC Preview page and look for the Use MAK to activate.
Copy the Office product key and then go back to the Microsoft Word or Excel. On the product information, click Change Product Key, then paste the product key we just copied, and then click Activate Office. Now close the Microsoft Word or Excel and then open it again. On the Microsoft Office Activation Wizard, select I want to activate the software over the internet, and then click Next. Once the activation is successful, click Close.
Alright, so that's how easy it is to install a legitimate copy of Office LTSC Professional Plus 2024 for free. I hope you find this tutorial useful, and thank you for watching.