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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October 30th, 2008 09:26
Umm hi…
i cant use liek anything on the top, like i cant even type in the powerpoint.
can someone help me?
October 28th, 2008 19:08
You the man
October 28th, 2008 08:02
Worked like charm.
You are a true star.
October 28th, 2008 07:04
hey i really need you to reply please !
i am trying to do this but it isnt working for me “/
i go up to the part right click and after that it pops out and i see it i try to change it to “neverInstalled” and it doesnt work for me !
October 27th, 2008 22:38
THANK YOU THAT’S AWESOME…
October 27th, 2008 02:25
Just download openoffice instead, free and full MS functionality
Why waste your time trying to get something thats not free for free.
October 26th, 2008 20:09
Eres 1 crack maxo te doy la enorabuena, tenia que hacer 1 trabajo y no me dejaba el microsoft word
MUCHISIMAS GRACIAS!!
October 26th, 2008 14:18
Omg, Thank you!
October 25th, 2008 12:31
Works like a Charm. Thnxs for the detailed explanation, no way to get lost.
October 23rd, 2008 14:23
I done this, it worked fine to full capacity for a while, but now i can’t do anything, at the bottom it says “This modification is not allowed because the selection is locked”. Any Help?
October 23rd, 2008 13:27
It really works!!!
Thanks a lot
October 23rd, 2008 13:07
im here to tell you that this actually works. this probably sounds like an infomercial but seriously it does. i downloaded the trial version in june this year and after 60 days is stopped working like they said. so i was looking to get another free trial, but i came across this. so i did it and the enter product key screen that used to come up when i turned on ms word or excel stopped coming up and at the top of the screen where it used to say trial version now just says ms word or ms excel. thanks so much it works if you do it right!!!
October 23rd, 2008 01:01
Awesome, actually works!
October 22nd, 2008 15:11
will this hack also wowrk for extra suite office products like vizio or project?
October 21st, 2008 20:31
Meu a dica é firmeza, meu Office ficou original mesmo. Obgd msm, vcs são os Caras.
October 21st, 2008 16:34
Thanks, works perfectly.
October 21st, 2008 10:15
try going back into the proof.xml file and switching neverinstalled back to alwaysinstalled. At least the product key box will pop up.
October 20th, 2008 22:08
Ok, so after 600 pointless posts let’s summarize. This “hack” should actually be called “How to get Office to lock up after 25 uses.
Now, to the morons who say this hack works, let me suggest either that you have not used it 25 times yet, or you’re just happy you were able to uninstall it after the “hack” was reversed.
News flash; IF IT HAD TO BE UNINSTALLED BECAUSE OF LACK UP, THE HACK DOES NOT WORK!
I have read through all 600 posts, and here’s my question: Is there a fix for this BESIDES uninstalling? Post 266 is the only actual fix I see here, so:
CAN ANYONE CONFIRM THAT THE FIX ON POST 266 WORKS?
And please, if you respond, DO NOT JUST SAY “This works” or “this does not work”. There are a thousand suggestions floating around. Please specify what you mean by “this”.
October 16th, 2008 23:29
merci !! merci !! et merci !! très bonne explication
October 15th, 2008 06:35
MS Office stop working how do I fix it anyone know
October 15th, 2008 02:11
guys.. if your ms office gets locked and you cannot unistall, just change back the xml file.. from neverinstalled back to Alwaysinstalled. save it and you should be able to unistall the trial. Not a crack to get your ms office working again but at least you get a choice of uninstaling it..
October 14th, 2008 20:22
I thank you for your instructions. I was able to use the software for about 2-3 wks and now it “locked” me out again. I cannot type on any of my saved files. Any suggestion?
October 14th, 2008 19:20
hello it is nice to find this but i faced few problems like the following
this will work out .. for first time.. after connecting with internet you loose the validity and will not able to even uninstall the office suite. so please explain how to uninstal this
October 14th, 2008 10:46
After modifying the file, I was not able to save it! I got an error message that path not found or similar message! any suggestion?
October 14th, 2008 09:16
How to activate Sharepoint Designer 2007?