Originally Posted by grumpy999

I do not have a Subscription, I purchased Word 2016 outright 2 years ago.

Originally Posted by macropod

That suggests you've either been sold a copy of Office with a pirated key or that Microsoft has revoked the key due to the licence-holder's abuse of its license conditions (e.g. selling multiple copies of a Multi-user edition of Office with the same key). If so, Office will become essentially unusable one month after you installed it.