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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August 12th, 2008 15:58
Yeah, im getting the same problem as tailgunner i cracked it maybe a bit longer than him but now when i went to do my assignment *sighs* i cant do anything its just basically turned into a Document viewer now i really need a speedy Reply got to get my work done lol
August 12th, 2008 06:59
hey! when i try to rename alwaysinstalled to neverinstalled i get something that the pathway is incorrect. Help!!!
August 12th, 2008 01:56
oki i need help..
i cracked reg like instructed..
work fine for a mont or 2..
now it wont let me edit any documents.. :/
August 11th, 2008 12:31
Works great, with plugins too
August 11th, 2008 02:07
It worked fantastic! Thanks for helping us poor college students have the software that we need to do our school work!
Bravo and kudos to you!
August 10th, 2008 19:59
Man you are a legend thanks so much for this POST I WAS GOING TO BUY THIS PRODUCT TOMORROW BECAYSE I REALLY NEED IT FOR MY STUDIES BUT NOW I CAN FINISH MY WORKS TONIGHT THANKSS DUDE!! YOU ARE A LEGEND
August 9th, 2008 19:41
It works ! You rock dude !
Ps “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en\”
You are not obliged to select Proof.en It depends on your country for french choose fr Germany.de etc…
August 9th, 2008 04:07
hei.. this is cool.. i just did it and it worked.. thanks a lot..
August 7th, 2008 04:36
ups,sory my email its carrie_staphanie@gmx.net
August 7th, 2008 04:34
Hellou guys
i don’t speak very well english… sorry ! i´m from germany, i haven’t found “digital productID and productID”… please could you email me to help me !!
thanks.i screwed sumthing up trying to do this hack and now i cant uninstall the trial version of office.im have Vista installed,if this help
August 7th, 2008 04:31
look
Found out how to uninstall
1. In Windows Explorer, browse to the following folder:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en\
2. Right click on Proof.XML file, select “Open With…” in the right click menu.
3. 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.
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the Proof.XML to locate the following lines:
5. Change the neverInstalled to AlwaysInstalled so that the line looks like following:
6. 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.
7. You can uninstall.
Did it myself works perfectly
if you need something else email me at dark-knight@aol.com
August 7th, 2008 04:27
HELLO i really need some help !!!
This did not work for me. I did the saving the proof file in a different location and pasting it over the original like someone mentioned. There were also proof.es and proof.fr folders in which I also changed the “always” to “never”. No go.
I am guessing this doesn’t work for all versions of Office?
What I have is:
Microsoft Office Word 2007 (12.0.4518.1014)
Part of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
August 7th, 2008 04:08
hellou.please someone can help me with one demonoid.com invitaion code,thank you so much.my email its orvilleamanda@hotmail.com,sorry for my bad english
August 6th, 2008 03:18
Thanx for the post…
i’ve tried it… work’s for me…
keep a good post
August 5th, 2008 12:45
it doesn’t save changes to the xml.file. But it asks if I want to do a save as..please, could you help me?
August 5th, 2008 03:50
I can not save changes tothe xml file, any help please
Jon
August 4th, 2008 21:12
hey i tried this hack like last week it didn’t work and i screwed everything up and now office wont uninstall i get a messege saying “setup cannot continue because a required file is either or corrupted or not avaliable,run setup from original source disc or download location. and i just downloaded office trial and it still gives me the same message. what can i do?? mabie its because i deleted proof.en and replaced it with another file with the same stuff anyways i really wanna know HOW TO DELETE IT??? help please
August 2nd, 2008 03:44
thanks man..had almost left it after getting frustrated. its a lot of help to us who cant afford to buy original softwares all the time..
August 1st, 2008 23:04
I did this once before and it gave me a little while longer to use the program, now it has expired again and the hack won’t work. How can I access my documents? I am desperate because ALL of our important stuff is on this program and I really need to get to it.
Thanks so much!
August 1st, 2008 02:45
Hi J,
so i followed all the instruction right up to the part where i’m suppose to save the proof.xml file only my pc won’t let me save it. i keep getting notifications that say: Cannot create the C:…..blablabla…proof.XML file. Make sure that the path and file name are correct.
Could this have smth to do with the fact that my ms 2007 trial version already expired? i got it pre-installed on my laptop with vista!!!
please help me!!!
tanx
August 1st, 2008 02:40
bravo man.
thanx.
too gud..
July 31st, 2008 23:04
GREAT!!!!
I was having troubles with the “activation key” of my office 2007 (previously installed at my computer)
I though about buying that (student version)… But It is a price in US, another in Spain, and a different one in Brazil… (sound like a “joke”, but it`s not!)
OBS.: I`m a Brazilian, living at Spain.
THANK u SO MUCH!!!!!
July 30th, 2008 23:33
Hey, that’s fantastic thanks….
July 29th, 2008 21:43
hey J thanks for your reply, i tried what u suggested and it still wont let me uninstall it, when i did the hack for the first time it gave me 15 uses before i had to purchase this was after it had already expired. so i opened and closed it 15 times and after that it wouldent let me in. so now when i try to uninstall it a message comes up saying “setup cannot continue bcause a required file is corrupted or missing”???….anymore suggestions
July 29th, 2008 21:17
@Rami: You didn’t screw anything up. The hack is what prevents you from uninstalling it. Just reverse the hack, change “neverInstalled” back to “AlwaysInstalled” and you should be able to uninstall the program through Control Panel.
Wouldn’t let you use the program without buying after 25 uses, right?