Microsoft Word 2024 for Windows – Lifetime License Key for 1 PC

Microsoft Word 2024 for Windows: the full word processor, bought once

Most people who search for a Word license do not want a suite. They want Word. They write reports, essays, contracts, manuscripts, meeting notes and letters, and they have no use for PowerPoint decks or pivot tables. Until recently the only practical options were a Microsoft 365 subscription, which bills every month for six applications, or a Home and Student box that still bundles Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft Word 2024 as a standalone perpetual application solves that. You buy one key, install one program on one Windows PC, and it is yours to use with no renewal date.

Word 2024 belongs to the Office LTSC 2024 generation, the same code base as Office 2024 Professional Plus and Home and Business 2024. Microsoft supports it until October 9, 2029, which means security updates and bug fixes for years to come. The key we deliver is genuine, arrives by email within minutes of payment with the official Microsoft download link, and is covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee. The license type is shown in the Product Overview table on this page.

Who buys Word 2024 on its own

• Students and academics who need reliable citations, footnotes, styles and track changes without paying for a subscription through a four-year degree.
• Writers and editors who spend the whole day in one document and want a fast, offline application that does not phone home for a license check.
• Legal, HR and administrative staff whose work is contracts, policies and correspondence, often on a second PC where the company suite is not installed.
• Small business owners replacing a lapsed Microsoft 365 trial on a laptop that only ever opened Word.
• Households that already have Excel or Outlook covered by another license and want to add Word to one more PC.

What is new and what matters in Word 2024

If you are moving from Word 2016 or 2019, the differences are noticeable. Coming from Word 2021, they are refinements rather than a redesign. The features that count most in daily use:

• Editor pane: spelling, grammar, clarity and conciseness suggestions in one place, with a readability score
• Modern comments with threaded replies, resolve and reopen, and @mentions when a document is stored in OneDrive or SharePoint
• Track Changes with a Just Mine option so you can review your own edits separately from a co-author's
• Dark mode with a dark page canvas, plus a Focus mode that hides the ribbon for distraction-free writing
• Read Aloud and Immersive Reader for proofreading by ear and for accessibility
• Draw tab with ink-to-text and ink-to-shape on pen and touch devices
• Open, edit and save PDF files directly, with improved layout fidelity when converting to and from PDF
• Refreshed default theme, rounded visuals and the Fluent icon set that matches Windows 11
• Performance improvements for long documents with many images, tables and tracked changes
• Full support for .docx, .doc, .odt, .rtf and .txt, plus mail merge, macros with VBA, and Styles and Navigation Pane workflows that power users rely on

Two things Word 2024 does not include, so there are no surprises: Copilot and the other cloud AI features that require a Microsoft 365 subscription, and the monthly feature drops that subscribers receive. You get a complete, stable Word that Microsoft keeps secure until 2029.

Word 2024 compared with the alternatives

The question we hear most often is whether to buy Microsoft Word 2024 alone or step up to a suite or a subscription. The table lays out the choices we sell alongside Microsoft's own subscription.

If you need two or more applications, Office 2024 Home and Business is usually the smarter buy. If you need only Word, this listing avoids paying for programs you will never open.

Word 2024 or Word 2021: is the upgrade worth it?

Plenty of buyers already own Word 2021 and wonder whether 2024 changes enough to matter. Feature by feature, the jump is moderate: the refreshed theme, better performance on long documents, refinements to comments and Track Changes, and a handful of accessibility improvements. The bigger difference is the calendar. Office 2021 reaches the end of Microsoft mainstream support on October 13, 2026, while Word 2024 is supported until October 9, 2029. If you are buying a Word license today for a PC you expect to keep for several years, three extra years of security updates is the strongest argument for choosing 2024, and the price difference between the two generations is rarely large enough to justify the shorter life.

Everyday work Word 2024 handles well

A few examples from the buyers who write to us. A paralegal builds contracts from a template library with automatic numbering, cross-references and a table of authorities. A graduate student manages a 200-page thesis with the Navigation Pane, captions and a bibliography kept in Word's citation manager. A property manager runs a monthly mail merge of lease letters from an Excel list. A novelist writes in Focus mode with dark page canvas, then sends chapters to an editor who returns them with modern comments and tracked changes. None of these tasks needs a subscription, and all of them run entirely offline once Word is activated.

System requirements

Word 2024 is a modern application and expects a modern PC, although the bar is not high:

• Operating system: Windows 10 or Windows 11; Windows Server 2019 or later is also supported
• Processor: 1.6 GHz dual-core or faster, 64-bit recommended
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Storage: 4 GB of available disk space
• Display: 1280 x 768 resolution; graphics hardware acceleration needs DirectX 10 or later
• Other: .NET Framework 4.6 or later; an internet connection and a Microsoft account to redeem the key and install

Word 2024 will not install on Windows 7 or 8.1. For those systems, see Office 2013 Professional Plus or another legacy suite instead. It also cannot coexist with a Microsoft 365 installation of Word on the same PC, so remove the subscription version first.

How the license works

The Word 2024 key is redeemed at setup.office.com and linked to your Microsoft account. After that, the account is your proof of ownership: reinstalling on the same PC after a wipe means signing in at account.microsoft.com and clicking Install, with no key to type again. The license covers one Windows PC. It is perpetual, so there is no expiry, no renewal and no monthly charge. Activation is online and automatic once you sign in to Word. The installer delivers the 64-bit build by default; if you depend on an old 32-bit add-in, the 32-bit build can be selected from the same account page before installing.

Transfer rights follow the license type shown in the Product Overview table. Retail single-application keys may be moved to a replacement PC once Word is removed from the previous one; OEM-type licenses stay with the original computer; volume licenses are for organizations and have limited activations. If a transfer is in your plans, ask us before ordering and we will confirm what applies.

Why buy this key from Software in Store

Buying a single Word key from a marketplace is a gamble: you may receive a key already redeemed by someone else, or a subscription account dressed up as a perpetual license. We sell genuine Microsoft Word 2024 keys, delivered by email within minutes with the official download link, and every key is stored under My Account. A person answers support email seven days a week and handles phone activation when Microsoft requires it. Our 30-day money-back guarantee is simple: if the key cannot be activated and we cannot fix it, you receive a replacement or a full refund. See Why trust us for the details of how we source and deliver.

Related products

Browse the Word category for every Word listing. Mac users should choose Word 2024 for Mac instead of this Windows key. If spreadsheets are part of your work, Excel 2024 for Windows is the matching standalone application, and Outlook 2024 adds desktop email and calendar. For the whole suite on a business PC, Office 2024 Professional Plus includes Word 2024 alongside Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote and Access.

Ready to order

Order Microsoft Word 2024 for Windows now and your key arrives by email within minutes. How it works walks through checkout, redemption and installation, and our FAQs answer the common questions about accounts, transfers and refunds. If anything is unclear, email our team before you buy; a person replies every day of the week.