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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August 7th, 2008 04:44
Hi guys !!!!
I really need some help,please,i ´m new with these things
I had a trial version for Home and Student Office 2007 and I did the regedit (delete product ID etc…) and changed the “alwaysinstalled” to “neverinstalled” but now i can’t modify my files because it says ity is looked for some reason
i think that my laptop looked up for updates and screwed up!!! fuck
i looked through some posts but I did not find a solution to my problem and when i try to activate MO no activation window pops up…………
please anyone help me
August 7th, 2008 04:05
# 253 it says confirmation code is wrong, i am using pre-installed by OEM. and there was no MSO.dll file at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12 but i added ur file.
August 6th, 2008 17:06
jimz22, try to read comment #253 and following.
August 6th, 2008 09:25
oh my, wat can i do tomtom?..
my microsoft office seems not working at all, all the action keys are inactive. =(
what should i do>,,
it is says there that the selection is locked…
HELP…
August 3rd, 2008 05:00
thanks tomtom. that is what mine shows as well. i just wanted to verify that i did not mess everything up with the updates…plus i like understanding how these things work and knowing what i am doing, if only a little.
thanks again. take care.
August 3rd, 2008 04:49
Hello x. That’s normal. Word version number is updated by almost each update and mso.dll is updated only by service packs. In fact the most recent mso.dll is sp1 one (version 12.0.6213.1000). My word option panel says:
Microsoft® Office Word 2007 (12.0.6311.5000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6213.1000)
August 3rd, 2008 01:01
tomtom,
thank you once again. one more quick question. i went ahead and updated, everything, sp1 and all available updates and everything seems ok. i did notice that when i checked out word, the version number for word and the mso file differed. will this cause a problem down the road? that is, will each update to word (as an example) alter the version number? then, if that is the case, does the mso file need to exactly match the version number, or is it only updated for major updates, like a service pack?
August 2nd, 2008 17:58
Hello all,
I could install MS Office Home Student 2007 version after trial period is over by following one of the advises posted here. I could succeed in revalidating it by deleting the DigitalProductID.
Can anyone suggest me how to make it genuine with Microsoft.com so that I can get continuous updates of my software i.e MS Office Home Student 2007. Notify me to my mail raocbec@yahoo.com. thank u.
August 2nd, 2008 17:57
Hello all,
I could install MS Office Home Student 2007 version after trial period is over by following one of the advises posted here. I could succeed in revalidating it by deleting the DigitalProductID.
Can anyone suggest me how to make it genuine with Microsoft.com so that I can get continuous updates of my software i.e MS Office Home Student 2007. thank u.
August 2nd, 2008 17:05
For x. I regularly receive updates with no problem. If you (or office update) install sp1 you have just to replace the mso.dll with the sp1 patched one and i suggest to get sp1. Finally, in last months i used office just to open doc and ppt documents with no issue. Try to ask someone else that uses office massively.
August 2nd, 2008 14:12
tomtom,
i have done as you suggested in 253 with untimate. it seems to work perfectly.
just to verify, can the suite be updated? that is, i noticed you mentioned sp1.
if i go to sp1, then is all that is needed is the MSOsp1 file?
do you suggest going to sp1?
lastly, using your own technique, have you had ultimate installed these months without issue?
thank you for you effort.
July 28th, 2008 17:29
Damn. It does look like Microsoft is onto non-genuine copies of Office.
Oh well, things have been running fine apart from that small hiccup, and yes I believe I can download templates directly from their website, so it’s only a minor inconvenience.
I’m pretty sure this copy of Office still passes the online OGA thing, although I don’t want to try and install those plugins to check anymore.
July 28th, 2008 17:19
Hi there Tomtom
It’s telling me that the thing is locked and I cannot get to the activation pane again. Please help.
July 28th, 2008 16:46
Jenn, if you want you can get the trial of home and student edition from ms website. Then you can install and activate with the usual procedure with no problem.
July 28th, 2008 12:25
THANXXX TOMTOM YOU’RE THE BEST !!! I HOPE THIS WORKS IF NOT I’LL JUST KEEP MY VERSION AND I’LL FIND OTHER PLACES TO DOWNLOAD TEMPLATES.
July 28th, 2008 06:16
I did reinstall and then activate.
I was originally using the student one but same problem so I uninstalled and tried Ultimate after noticing other people’s success with it.
July 27th, 2008 17:56
Provocoutur, search oga patches on emule or google for your oga version. You can also download a oga patch from the link i provided in comment 382 or a more recent patch from this page. But you cannot find genuine product keys…
July 27th, 2008 13:25
Hey Tomtom, do you know where I could possibly find that ? Otherwise would you happen to know where i can find a valid genuine enterprise, or ultimate office product key ?
July 26th, 2008 16:59
Provocoutur, previous versions of oga use just ogacheckcontrol.dll, so the patch is only a patched version of that file (but i’m not using the oga patch because my office is recognized as genuine from ms website). Today, searching through the windows\system32 folder, i found two additional files, ogaaddin.dll and ogaverify.exe. The oga version is 1.7.105.0. I suppose you have to look at the version number of your oga plugin and searching for a patch for that version.
July 26th, 2008 05:31
TOMTOM, I CAN ONLY DOWNLOAD CERTAIN TEMPLATES. ALSO IS THERE ANYTHING I NEED TO DELETE MAYBE ? THANK YOU !!!
July 26th, 2008 05:29
TOMTOM, I TRIED USING A PATCH BUT COULD YOU TELL ME EXACTLY HOW TO USE A PATCH B/C I TRIED AND I EVEN PUT IT INTO THE FOLDER SPECIFIED AND EVERYTHING BUT IT STILL WON’T LET ME DOWNLOAD FROM OFFICE ONLINE.
July 26th, 2008 04:52
Hi Provocoutur. I tried to download templates from word 2007 but it says it’s counterfeit (like yours). That’s why our offices are not really genuine. However i managed to get templates from the office website. Maybe using a patched version of the office genuine advantage (ogacheckcontrol.dll, etc.) could allow getting templates directly from office applications…
July 26th, 2008 02:05
@ Tomtom
I followed all of your instructions perfectly !!! Thank you very much, you must be some kind of genius…lol But I have a problem, when I try to download templates the validator tells me that my product key is invalid !!! Any suggestions, I really need those templates !!! Thank you
July 25th, 2008 17:30
Jenn, i think you have to reinstall office and then to activate it.
GT, how did you activate office? Did you follow steps on #253?
July 25th, 2008 12:31
Hi TOMTOM,
NID UR HELP,i activated my trial version of microsoft office in my laptop and is already expired.
Do you have any suggestion to reactivated permanently??
i did follow the above step for example,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration\{30120000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE
But i can only used once only then i need to reactived again after i close it. URGENT !!!!