Hack to Activate Microsoft Office 2007 Evaluation Trial Version
Most suites or programs of Microsoft Office 2007 allows user to evaluate the product. The trial version of 2007 Microsoft Office system can be installed by using a 25-character trial product key available from Microsoft while you download the free Office software, and you can use the Microsoft Office 2007 suite or program with full functionality for 60 days.
You may have the Office 2007 CD and are able to install Office 2007 without entering product key. However, Office 2007 will work in reduced functionality mode, where it’s effectively just a viewer for Office documents. Beside, if you forget the trial product key, or don’t wish to register a Windows Live ID to get the trial key, here’s the trick to activate Office 2007, or more correctly, bypass the activation of Office 2007 60 days trial, and making the “trial” word disappear from the Office title at the top and suppress activation and trial expiry prompt.
Note that to use Microsoft Office 2007 beyond 60 days trial period, you need to purchase a valid license for it, available from Amazon or most computer retail store.
To use this hack to crack activation on Office 2007, you need to install Office 2007 without any serial number or product key. If you have installed Office 2007 with a product key or serial number, do the following to clean remove Office 2007 of product key:
- Close all Microsoft Office applications.
- Run Register Editor by clicking on Start -> Run, and then type “regedit” in the Open box and press Enter key.
- Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration
Note that inside the registry key, there should be another subkey that resembles the following:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration\{90120000-0030-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE
or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration\{91120000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE
- If there is more than one registry entries or subkeys that reference Microsoft 12.0 registration, open up each subkey, and then identify the product by the ProductName value data until you locate the subkey for the product which you want to remove the existing product license key.
For example:
ProductName=Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
ProductName=Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 - Once found the correct registry subkey, delete the following values:
DigitalProductID
ProductID - Close Registry Editor.
Once Microsoft Office 2007 has been installed with no product key, proceed with the following steps:
- In Windows Explorer, brose to the following folder:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en\
- Right click on Proof.XML file, select “Open With…” in the right click menu.
- In the “Open With” window, select Notepad to be used to open the XML file. In Vista, if you can’t see the Notepad option, simply double click the “Other Programs” to unhide it.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the Proof.XML to locate the following lines:
</Feature> <Feature Id=”SetupXmlFiles” Cost=”1248″>
<OptionRef Id=”AlwaysInstalled”/>
</Feature> - Change the AlwaysInsalled to neverInstalled so that the line looks like following:
<OptionRef Id=”neverInstalled”/>
- Save the Proof.xml file. In Windows Vista, you may need to take ownership and grant full access permission to yourself before able to modify the file.
- You can now launch Microsoft Office 2007 application such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and etc without prompting for activation.
As usual, as it’s a hack, and before you purchase a valid product key for it, you won’t be able to AND can’t access any updates or Microsoft Office Online.
Disclaimer: This article is for educational and informational purpose only.
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April 17th, 2008 23:16
wait ignore what i just said… im impatient and need to learn to read…
April 17th, 2008 23:14
Could someone please let me know how to uninstall this after you try this hack that DOESN’T work? I just want microsoft office OFF my computer for good…. Thanks
April 17th, 2008 21:31
Joanne, otsego and others. If you want a really working method for activating office 2007 (it works for all editions) take a look at #253 and following posts HERE.
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April 17th, 2008 01:09
If you have done this hack and want to uninstall Microsoft office than just change neverInstalled back to AlwaysInstalled(make sure the A and I are capitalized). Voila, its that simple.
April 17th, 2008 01:01
I strongly suggest that everyone downloads an Office trial and then finds a keygen, rather than use this method. It works for a while, but now I am now stuck unable to uninstall software that has all the features disabled and I don’t have time to go through all the steps listed by “Frustration Station.” This has cost me a lot of time!!
April 17th, 2008 00:28
As with Ryan, I did this and it worked great for a couple of weeks then disabled all the features.
April 14th, 2008 16:38
I feel the need to post. Many of the problems discussed (along with their answers) did nothing to quell my anger towards Microsoft’s office products. I have purchased new computers and new operating systems which have voided my rights to use my legally purchased versions of office, so I turned to less legal means. Being a college student, you don’t get a whole lot of time to screw around with money or (dis)functional software. The problem I ran into was not being able to uninstall software previously installed, especially the trial versions. I attempted at using the uninstall software that many of you have recommended, but to no avail. It hasn’t worked completely, yet, but I think I found a way to completely rid myself of ALL office files with much less frustration. (Trust me, I tried control panel/program uninstall method. It only gave me the same error message “Setup cannot continue because a required file is either corrupted or not available. Run Setup again from the original source disc or download location.” After about 6 hours of research (I REALLY needed to fix this so I could do my homework. My grade, and about $700 of class fees depended upon it!) I came to this website, hosted by none-other than Microsoft. (Their one saving grace) If you go to this website, it will show you one more location other than the registry that these tricky Microsoft files will be hiding.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218/en-us
Simply follow the directions, and you should be on your way to reinstalling in no time.
And for heaven’s sake, if they tell you to create a back up for files in the registry, DO IT. YOU DO NOT WANT TO HAVE THIS HASSLE YOU FOR SIX HOURS.
April 11th, 2008 17:26
COMMENT AND Say If Ma Method Is Workin or No
el|te It´s a Trap … :>>>
April 11th, 2008 01:26
safe man really amazing
April 10th, 2008 22:43
What the… It Worked! this is a piece of art!
Thanks so much!!!!!
April 9th, 2008 20:20
Just to follow up:
My computer just did a security update (oops) but Office is still working
April 9th, 2008 19:15
SO FUCKIN PPLZ…Try This and Tell To Tha Others If IS WORK or NO…
So…This is It
I will tell ya Once …. Again How´s Workin This Shit.
First Of All… Uninstall All Features Of Office(In case that u bought a New PC and Office come Included ;), )
After that… Install Tha Office that u get From Microsoft website,Office Professional or Enterprise,Should work with all Versions ;)…After Install…Get This File Ova Here http://rapidshare.com/files/95093505/MS_office_2007_ultimate_RTM_and_SP1_Activation.zip.html Read Careffuly That Fuckin Read Me Txt…
Not go to Change Nuthin in Regedit or sumthin else.;)After following these steps… u Can Go to Tha Activate,Click on it…and a Message will appear.Tha Fuckin Product was already Activated!!! I try to Explain ya´ll this in a while…So Hope This Shit w´ll Help ya out
El|te !!! It´s a Trap …
April 9th, 2008 04:29
itsss…really amzing…
April 8th, 2008 12:16
now we can say it was amazing because if you have Microsoft automatic updates, it wont work any more, one of the security updates disabled the hack
April 8th, 2008 03:38
THIS IS AMAZING. I was searching on google for something like this, but i was 99% convinced cause is impossible to find something like this, and surprise here it is. THANK’s A LOOOOOOOT
April 6th, 2008 03:31
Uhm…Big problem with this…Try uninstalling it after doing this registry hack…Wait…You cant!
April 6th, 2008 02:36
Changement??????
Try reading all the replies. Others have had that problem.
April 5th, 2008 22:37
i have do all for hacking the registration keyx for office 2007, but i’m on vista, and it doesn’t allow me to save the changement when i modify the proof.xml file … how can i change that ???
April 4th, 2008 16:55
So…This is It
http://rapidshare.com/files/95093505/MS_office_2007_ultimate_RTM_and_SP1_Activation.zip.html Read Careffuly That Fuckin Read Me Txt…
I try to Explain ya´ll this in a while…So Hope This Shit w´ll Help ya out
I will tell ya Once …. Again How´s Workin This Shit.
First Of All… Uninstall All Features Of Office(In case that u bought a New PC and Office come Included ;), )
After that… Install Tha Office that u get From Microsoft website,Office Professional or Enterprise,Should work with all Versions ;)…After Install…Get This File Ova Here
Not go to Change Nuthin in Regedit or sumthin else.;)After following these steps… u Can Go to Tha Activate,Click on it…and a Message will appear.Tha Fuckin Product was already Activated!!!
El|te !!! It´s a Trap …
April 4th, 2008 02:13
i did all of this and everything worked fine but now word’s features have all been disabled after a couple weeks. What do i do?
April 2nd, 2008 22:38
Good Guys!!!
Regards to TomTom and el|te ;)!!!
April 2nd, 2008 18:09
dude this is the best site i have seen
wow it really works i could not beleive it myself [:)]
April 2nd, 2008 17:35
Once Again…So… I´ve been looking for a while 4 a Crack or any Method to make Ma Office ´07 to Work…at Least i Found sumthin that work Out 100% 4 Sure,Dudes… not fuckin Viruses or Spywares…Here it is !!! Tha No: is II - IIIIII-IIIIII , by pppppppp
Check it Out ;)There´z tha L|nk2
el|te !!!
April 2nd, 2008 17:31
Jasmine…Look Up and take that RapidShare File

There is a txt file that u can read
April 1st, 2008 21:50
I can not save the file for some reason. Any help is welcomed