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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September 8th, 2008 10:06
purrrrrrrrrrrfect!!
September 8th, 2008 06:27
AMAZING
Thanks so much.
This worked well for me.
September 8th, 2008 06:18
uhm can i get the office 2007 from the official microsoft site or do i need a torrent one from like mininova or something. and will this work on an IBM microsoft 2000 desktop computer?
September 7th, 2008 10:33
i hate microsoft and bill gates
September 7th, 2008 10:24
i hate microsft
September 6th, 2008 22:07
Works for me.
simple and useful, Thanks!
September 6th, 2008 20:37
wow…..it’ work….cool…..
thank you very much….
September 6th, 2008 18:28
It doesn’t work time waste doing so………..
September 5th, 2008 17:24
i did as u side i am getin this messageThis modification is not allowed because the selection is lock
September 5th, 2008 02:16
Hello, I have dual-boot in my laptop with vista and XP installed, and I have Office 2007 on both OSES. The problem is that I can’t find the common files section on my drive F (Windows Vista) and there I can’t access the file proof.en!!!! Please help me!!!!
September 4th, 2008 10:27
what exactly does it mean ” save in windows vista. “
September 3rd, 2008 22:48
Right on. Worked thanks!
September 3rd, 2008 17:16
Awesome, it’s working dude,
Many Thanks.
September 1st, 2008 03:53
it’s not working anymore, this way stopped working after less than a month, is there anyother way around the activation?
September 1st, 2008 00:12
This worked and continues to work on my old IBM laptop, and worked initially for my newer dell laptop. Then roughly 4-5 days after hacking the office program on my dell, office no longer works and is locked and I am getting:
“the modification is not allowed because the selection is locked”
similar to another poster
perhaps I downloaded a windows security update or something that nullified the hack?
August 31st, 2008 20:03
Ok, forget it, I’m French and I had to look in “Fichiers Communs” instead of “Common Files” ^^
TYVM for the tip !
August 31st, 2008 14:30
Thanks! Works like Swiss watches!
August 31st, 2008 09:46
Hi,
I’ve tried this tip, but I’ve encoutered some problems.
I had installed Office 2007 with entering the serial number, so I canceled the keys with regedit.
But when I browse into C:\Program Files\Common Files… I have no folder called “Office12″. I got Windows XP SP3.
Do you know where that can come from and how to fix it ?
August 31st, 2008 02:16
well we have been having trouble with my daughters computer and we where wanting to know the trail key\code to the microsoft office 2007
thanks
August 29th, 2008 22:09
This worked great until I had to restart my computer. When I tried to use Word after the restart all of my documents are locked. I get this message at the bottom of the screen when I try to edit the document
“the modification is not allowed because the selection is locked”
Any idea how to fix this. I am running Vista.
Thanks!
August 29th, 2008 09:58
This is awseome i have done this to three computers now and it is working awseome.
Thanks, keep doing what your doing
August 29th, 2008 09:01
No no no no no
no lo puedo creer
me ayudaron bastante
muchas gracias
justo ahirta que no tengo dinero
los recomendare a mis amigos
gracias gracias gracias
bueno pss me voy
adios
August 29th, 2008 06:08
Under the folder 12.0 I did not have a folder called “registratio”. I just have “MSOexample” and “User Settings”, what do I do?! D:
August 29th, 2008 02:59
It worked for two days, then all Office programs were essentially disabled (no editing/saving allowed).
My advice to anyone considering this hack: don’t waste your time. If you really want Office, just do a Google search for “office 2007 enterprise torrent” and download a torrent. You’ll need a torrent client such as uTorrent.
August 28th, 2008 10:17
it worked!!!
thank you.