In recent years it has become common for Microsoft to release trial or preview versions of its big-name products.

The trial version of Office 365 is only meant to be used for 30 days.

After this time you are expected to by a license or stop using the software.

How to Extend Your Office 2013/365 Trial to 180 Days

In practice, Office does not become unusable, but instead enters a reduced functionality mode.

Open up an Explorer window and navigate to one of the following folders.

bang out:

OSPPREARM.EXE

Press Enter, and youre done.

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Thats all there is to it.

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