Unable to activate windows office

hi team,
i bought the laptop a week back, windows 8.1 is activated . but whenever i open windows office i have been prompted with following message "activate by entering 25 characters and it is typically found in your product packaging."
please guide me in activating it .
thanks

Actually it is not activated until you put in the  license activation key.
You will have to purchase a license activation key from Microsoft or an online vendor. It will be twenty five characters in length.
 Microsoft Office is not a free product. The notebooks were generally delivered with a  30 day trial version, but I am not certain that is currently the case.
The only exception is if you purchased a Microsoft Office license from HP along with the notebook. That would mean that in the packaging for the notebook there would be a paper with the license activation code in the box with the other documentation.
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