How to Reset or Change Microsoft Office 2007 Product License Key or Volume License Key (VLK)
You may need to alter or change Microsoft Office 2007 (aka 2007 Microsoft Office System programs and suites) product license key or volume license key (VLK) which also known as serial number or CD key. You can modify or change product key for 2007 Microsoft Office programs or suites by first uninstall or remove Microsoft Office and then reinstalling the business productivity suite. However, you can follow the following steps in order to reset and change the Microsoft Office 2007 product serial key without the need to uninstall or reinstall 2007 Office system suites.
Note: The following steps involve modification of registry key values, which may corrupt your Windows if done incorrectly. Backup registry first before performing the workaround.
- Close all Microsoft Office programs.
- Click on Start button, then click on Run.
- Type “regedit” (without quotes) in the Run text box, and click OK or press Enter.
- Locate and then click the following subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration
Inside, you will find another subkey that resembles the following subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration\{30120000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}
- Optional: Backup this registry branch by exporting the Registration subkey to a file, just in case the new product key does not work and you have to restore back the old product key. To export the registry, right click on the Registration subkey and click on Export, and follow the on-screen prompt to enter a file name for the registry file and choose a location to store it.
- Under the Registration subkey, there may be several Globally Unique Identifiers (GUID) subkey that contain a combination of alphanumeric characters. Each GUID is specific to a program that is installed on your computer.
If you find additional subkeys that reference Microsoft 12.0 registration, then click and open each GUID subkey to view and identify the Office product version by the ProductName registry entry in the right pane. For example:
ProductName=Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
- After you find the GUID subkey that contains your Office product or program which you want to remove the existing product license key or registration details, delete the following registry entries by right clicking on the registry entry in the GUID subkey, click Delete, and then click Yes:
• DigitalProductID
• ProductID - Exit Registry Editor.
- Run or open an Office application program, such as Microsoft Word or Excel or Outlook. Office 2007 will prompt you to enter a new 25-character product key.
- Type in the valid and genuine product key, and then click OK.
- Then when prompted to choose your preferred type of Microsoft Office 2007 installation, press on “Install Now”.
- Microsoft Office 2007 will be updated with new product CD key or volume license key, and ready for activation (if it’s a non-VLK serial) or use.
Note: If you’re having problem with your new Office 2007 product key, simply double click on the backup registry .reg file created at the optional step above to restore the registry settings of the Registration subkey so that the original value can be imported back to the registry.
You may need to reset to change Office 2007 product key with the above steps if you don’t want to uninstall or reinstall Microsoft Office 2007 again in many scenarios, such as you have just bought a retail version of Office 2007, or receive Office 2007 as a gift, or win MS Office 2007 as a prize, or just get your MSN product key for Office 2007, or having problem with activation process online or via phone, or unable to step-up or convert evaluation copy of Office 2007 to full-use version, or having problem with Office Genuine Advantage (OG) validation.
On the other hand, if you manage to find a valid and genuine volume license key or VLK, you can change the product key of Microsoft Office 2007 with the VLK serial in order to bypass the Office 2007 activation process (as Office 2007 still using WPA 1.0 where corporate users need not to activate), without the need of crack or hack for Office 2007, for full use for unlimited period as long as you’re not caught by OGA.
The 2007 Microsoft Office System product key changing instruction and step-by-step guide tutorial is applicable to Microsoft Office Basic 2007 all editions and all individual programs or suites of Microsoft Office 2007 including Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Microsoft Office Professional 2007, Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007, Microsoft Office Standard 2007, Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007, Microsoft Office Access 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007, Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2007 and Microsoft Office Word 2007.
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March 23rd, 2008 16:43
From where can i download office 2007 enterprise edition?
March 23rd, 2008 06:57
Hey tomtom. I couldn’t find an OGA on emule but I did find one on hxxp://keznews.com/2995_Office_2007_Genuine_Advantage. Can you do me a favor and checkk with this website because the OGA (all three of them) doesn’t work with microsoft office professional. Do you have an idea why it doesn’t work with pro but does with enterprise? Thanks
March 22nd, 2008 22:46
Hi Nicky. From http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/ it says your office isn’t genuine? If so, try to download a patch from emule.
March 22nd, 2008 13:56
Thanks Tomtom your method work on my Microsoft office, but I have one more problem. Everything’s up and running except the Microsoft office Genuine Advantage. Any recommendations on where to download one? I remember finding one, but I lost the website address.
March 21st, 2008 23:49
jami and Nicky, try these steps:
- if you changed “AlwaysInstalled” to “NeverInstalled” in the proof.xml file (located in C:\Programmi\File comuni\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en) change back to “AlwaysInstalled”
- replace the mso.dll with the patched one (use the right link, THIS for rtm (non-sp1) or THIS for sp1), if the message “prepares to install” appears click cancel
- go to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\OFFICE\DATA and cancel the files opa12.dat and the .bpc file (if they exist!)
- retry the activation method of post #253
hope this help
March 21st, 2008 17:26
tomtom is there some type of mso.dll restore?!! i have recently downloaded the trial version using the code posted by Matty in 266. then i downloaded the file from the link you posted above, deleted the mso.dll in commom files/microsoft shared/office 12 and repalced it with the rapid file. i then open office and it “prepares to install” and as i watch the office 12 folder the mso.dll file pops right back up! i have tried using the phone activation anyway but that doesnt work. i have 15 more times to do this (according to microsoft) can you please tell me whats up?!!!
thanks,
jami
March 21st, 2008 09:07
It’s me again. I just got finished reinstalling my microsoft office professional 2007 and it still says the same message. I don’t get it. I remove everything associted with microsoft office, including MSO with no luck. Anybody have any other suggestions?
March 21st, 2008 05:10
Nicky, you can install from your cd. If you have enterprise or professional plus use a vlk non-trial product key and then no need to activate. Otherwise use a non-trial key to install and apply the well known #253’s method to activate.
March 21st, 2008 03:48
Hi, Tomtom.
Perhaps I should have explained this earlier. Yes, I did use the proof.xml hack. The problem is that I am running Vista . I’m unable to reinstall Office 2007 because I had to take control of the permissions a certain way, specifically using cacls and takeown commands. However I do not know how to restore these commands to their default.
March 21st, 2008 03:05
Okay so I just got finished completely getting rid of all of my microsoft office applications and I still get the same message that says “Microsoft Office Word has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application.” I have a CD trial of mircosoft office that I’ve never used, so can I download the CD but use a different key product? What will happen if I do?
March 21st, 2008 02:22
For C-Nizzle. Remember that vlk keys make activated only enterprise and professional plus editions.
March 21st, 2008 01:35
Ok so using that VLK no activation is needed, so in turn the mso.dll file does not need to be replaced or modified. I will try that key whenever I get home and post the results. Thanks for all your help so far.
March 21st, 2008 00:15
C-Nizzle, mso.dll is the same for all office 2007 editions and i use the one downloaded from rapishare. As i said to Jey in post #302, vlk serials (like KGFVY-7733B-8WCK9-KTG64-BC7D8) make office enterprise activated. No need to use patched mso.dll.
March 20th, 2008 23:12
Well I agree that I don’t think that one bit would make the difference between virus and non, but by chance could you email me the mso.dll that you have for the non SP1 install of Enterprise? Also just a footnote, but the copy of Enterprise I got came from Microsoft as a trial version, I just plugged in the key I used from my previous post.
March 20th, 2008 22:49
C-Nizzle and Nicky, i compared the original mso.dll and the patched one version rtm and did the comparison also for sp1 mso.dll’s. I did that at the command prompt with the command fc (file compare). In both versions i got that the two files has only 1 bit different…i suppose that changing just a bit in the original file cannot make it infected by a virus…Then i scanned the patched mso.dll’s with avast and no virus detected.
March 20th, 2008 22:34
Guess I’ll wait for a bit with Vista SP1 then. I’ve been using the non SP1 mso.dll for a few days and haven’t seen any problems. Upgraded to Office SP1 and using the new mso.dll for that and it’s working fine as well.
It sounds like the error might have to do with the installation process? I haven’t received that error so far, and that’s with a few reboots. Scanned computer with AVG AV (I know it’s not the best out there) but didn’t find any viruses related to this.
March 20th, 2008 21:42
dboi, you shouldn’t have any problems with Vista considering your SP1 upgrade for Office will not effect the Vista install for any reason. I would be careful of Vista SP1 anyways, simply because if you refer to all the hell that XP SP2 was on it’s first release, you might wanna wait until they work all the bugs out before you install SP1 for Vista.
Nicky, I don’t have any suggestions for another untainted mso.dll file unless someone has one that has been untainted. dboi, do a reboot and see if you have any of the problems that Nicky and I had, because everything works great until the first reboot. If not then it is possible we could use that mso.dll that is designed for Ultimate after SP1 has been installed.
March 20th, 2008 19:46
Does anyone know if using Tomtom’s method, would there be problems if I updated my Vista to SP1? I’ve upgraded my Office Ultimate to SP1 with the patched MSO, and it seems to be working fine. Don’t want problems with an updated Vista though.
March 20th, 2008 15:56
tomtom is the pro plus rtm version (.torrent) (what ever that is!;)), safe to download? if not is the link from post 253 still safe?
March 20th, 2008 12:21
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March 20th, 2008 11:15
C-Nizzle
Thanks for the post. I’m glad one of the first things I did when I received that error was uninstall all of my Microsoft Office 2007 applications. Do you have any suggestions for another mso.dll file?
March 20th, 2008 08:18
Just FYI Nicky and TomTom…I think that mso.dll file from rapidshare might have been tampered with and had a virus placed within it. I ran the hack with the the key provided by Zeus, M2QKF-KDQ4R-YHQKD-M4YYK-GPWVD that was in post 255, and then after the install replaced the dll file like was listed in post 253 and everything worked fantastic….until the first reboot.
Then I got the “Microsoft Office Word has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application.” This lead to the disassociation of almost all programs including the command prompt which would only open ascii garbage in wordpad. Also there were two files randomly placed on my system called “girls.doc” and “money.doc”.
If you know of a for sure, untainted mso.dll I will give it a shot, but just wanted to give a warning about this one.
Just another FYI, I do run clamwin AV realtime, and do regular SB, Adaware, and SpyShredder scans frequently and know that I did not have any infection until after this install and .dll change.
March 20th, 2008 06:09
I have a prolem with my microsoft office professional 2007. When I updated my software, this window pops up that says “Microsoft Office Word has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application.” I’ve tried everything from technical support forums, Microsoft Word Technical supoort, and Gateway support with no such luck. Do you know what the roblem might be. BTW, I have a windows XP.
March 20th, 2008 02:00
Jey, the best thing for you is uninstall and reinstall the enterprise edition with this vlk serial KGFVY-7733B-8WCK9-KTG64-BC7D8. That serial makes office already activated (you don’t have to follow the method of post 253).
March 19th, 2008 11:40
TomTom or any other help please
i had a cracked enterprise version fully working and today it stopped…i restarted my computer and open the programs immediately and they work full functional…but when the comp is already on and i go to open it i cant use them…any ideas on what to do
thanks so much in advance