Reinstall Office - where is product key?

When we purchased our HP Envy 17 in May 2012, it came with Microsoft Office. We recently had to do a fix on our laptop that required us to uninstall Office and now we need to reinstall it. We have all the Office files in our back up but we can't find a setup file. How can we reinstall office? Do we need to download again from Microsoft with a product key # and if yes, where would we get find the product key # for our laptop since Office was already installed on the laptop when we got it from HP?

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When we purchased our HP Envy 17 in May 2012, it came with Microsoft Office. We recently had to do a fix on our laptop that required us to uninstall Office and now we need to reinstall it. We have all the Office files in our back up but we can't find a setup file. How can we reinstall office? Do we need to download again from Microsoft with a product key # and if yes, where would we get find the product key # for our laptop since Office was already installed on the laptop when we got it from HP?
You don't get MS Office for free it comes as a 30 day trial and after that you either buy it or uninstall it. And if you purchased MS Office with it you should've gotten the package that had Office Product Key with it. You need to go back and look at your receipt from 2012 when you bought your laptop and see what was all in the package and if MS Office was purchased as separate and installed onto it. MS Office comes as a install on a CD/DVD media or a link that you were given at the time you bought MS Office that you can download in some instances. So go back and find your receipt and see what it says and don't say. If there is no info that a MS Office was installed then you were only using the 30 day trial MS Office - the Activiated Office is only possible with a Product that comes with Office when you buy MS Office it doesn't come as part of the Windows O/S those are two separate programs.
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