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
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.
Note: The hack may work for 60 days only. To make this hack fully working, try to delete additional file below, probably has to be deleted every two months:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\OFFICE\DATA\opa12.dat
Or,
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\OFFICE\DATA (for Windows 7 and Vista)
Disclaimer: This article is for educational and informational purpose only.
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June 5th, 2008 04:27
for all you people that say it does work, it doesn’t. because it doesn’t update it just stops the activation process. there are better ways to do it. AND have it update. if it doesn’t updat it doesnt work in my book.
June 1st, 2008 04:25
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May 30th, 2008 10:50
Thanks a lot, i got the spannish version so i found it a little hard to understand the regedit instructions but, it works anyway… just one thing… when starting any office application it still ask me for serial number, i just X the advice and it works well, but… i guess that wouldn’t be happening
May 29th, 2008 10:51
hey stupid dummies. it said that barbie girl cant download off’a itunes right but i just dragged the song i wanted and pasted it then i just dragged it on the barbie girl file and guess what doorknobs it didnt even have to load and it worked. the inventors of barbie girls dont know what they r doing with their own invention!!
May 28th, 2008 23:37
Wow!! thx a lot!
May 28th, 2008 02:29
hi bro….
lots of thnx yaar…………
its workin
May 28th, 2008 00:16
If you have Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 here are some codes you can use to activate the full version:
RGTBH-RPKDR-V426F-K3CBT-XHJ7W
JPD3M-JR9CW-DHCKD-KCRK4-QWRMJ
M7F4F-BXDC6-9Y9T4-P8XQK-TBYYJ
Thanks,
Hoped This Helped.
May 27th, 2008 16:57
Ya still have this probl.?! … Jeez…
May 27th, 2008 12:38
thnks sooo much this really worked ! i followed to srtp 6 and it worked perfectly !
May 27th, 2008 01:44
Waw!!j’ai pu installé Microsoft 2007 sur mon pc à cause de cet article
Merci pour l’éditeur
May 26th, 2008 22:13
ok im a the proof thing and when i save it it dont work what do i gt to do
May 25th, 2008 23:46
Doesn’t work for my copy of home and student… any other way?
May 25th, 2008 15:01
Thanks heaps! all the keygens don’t work and working serials are not easy to find this is the way to go!
May 22nd, 2008 04:23
Nice, it worked. Thank you!
May 22nd, 2008 03:37
Ok, I’ve been working on this for about a half hour and it’s driving me nuts. I downloaded the trial and i closed everything. I go to the exact location in the registry, but I don’t see Product ID or the other thing I’m supposed to delete. I have: Product Name, Product Namebrand… blah blah. Is this because I don’t have windows vista; but I have XP?
May 21st, 2008 02:48
thank you sooooooooo much,have been trying to unlock this for ages now,am using windows vista.
This has definitely been the most helpful (and easiest) site on the net
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May 20th, 2008 21:49
It worked for me for a while, but then it locked itself again. Any suggestions?
May 20th, 2008 11:45
i did this to my office that came preinstalled onto my computer and it locked up after a couple weeks so i downloaded the trial version and did the same thing. this worked for a couple weeks but now it has locked up again. can anyone help? i am running windows vista.
May 18th, 2008 16:04
it works dude, thx very much!
May 16th, 2008 22:55
thnx a lot
May 15th, 2008 18:28
Thanks.. Vista users try this..
For Windows Vista users: you won´t be able to rewrite the file on its original location. Save it with a different name (e.g. “proof2″) in some other location (e.g. my documents). Then delete the original file, rename “proof2″ as “proof” and move it to the orignal folder. You must have full permission to do that.
It did work
May 15th, 2008 01:13
When search DigitalProductID
ProductID only found the keys of Windows Vista. If delete this may be that Vista don’t work? Thanks.
May 14th, 2008 06:52
I NEED HELP!
I have TWO Microsoft OFfice right now.
One Home and Student and one Standard edition.
I can’t erase either.
I tried changing them both to AlwaysInstalled
But it still doesn’t work.
Help me?
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May 13th, 2008 21:11
Just in case, it’s better to back the original proof file up, if you make a mistake, then it is hard to undo.
May 12th, 2008 21:00
For Windows Vista users: you won´t be able to rewrite the file on its original location. Save it with a different name (e.g. “proof2″) in some other location (e.g. my documents). Then delete the original file, rename “proof2″ as “proof” and move it to the orignal folder. You must have full permission to do that.