Some versions of Office such as Office Professional Plus 2021, Office Standard 2021, or a stand-alone app such as Word 2021 or Project 2021 don't have an associated Microsoft account, or work or school account. *If you don't have a product key or an account You'll sign in with your work or school account for these versions of Office.
Once you verify you have a license, anytime you need to install or reinstall Office you can go straight to the section below, Sign in to download Office and select the tab for steps to install on a PC or Mac.
Learn how to check this in What Microsoft 365 business product or license do I have? or if you're a Microsoft 365 admin responsible for assigning licenses to people in your organization, see Assign licenses to users.
If that’s the case immediately after you have installed the new version, you might want to restart your computer and re-check. There might be cases in which Word, PowerPoint or Excel 2016, will not be listed in the default program list.There might be cases, mainly around compatibility with older file formats, in which you might want to leaver the older Office versions (2010 and older) as default.Click on PowerPoint 2016 and check on Always use this app to open.pptx file, move over open with and select Choose another app. If PowerPoint 2016 doesn’t open your presentations, proceed as following: docx files default program is set to Word 2016.
Click on Word 2016 and check on Always use this app to open.docx file, move over open with and select Choose another app. If Microsoft Word 2016 is not your default program for opening documents proceed as following: Note: Using a similar procedure, will allow you to make Excel the default program for csv, Google Sheets, Open Office. Click on Excel 2016 and check on Always use this app to open.xlsx file in your computer, then go ahead and select Open with and select Choose another app. Set your default programs/apps manually Setting Excel 2016 / 365 as default spreadsheet program:
If all the above mentioned techniques didn’t help, you might need to try the manual method specified below. Then for each known/relevant file type, select the default opening app.In the search box, type ‘Default’ and select Choose a default app….Hit the Search Windows magnifying glass icon (located at the left hand side of your task bar).
Note: You can execute the steps above in Windows 10 using the Default apps screen.