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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April 3rd, 2009 10:22
You are my savior. Thank you soo much.
April 2nd, 2009 12:18
thank you soo much!
god bless you! 
April 2nd, 2009 10:46
God Bless You!
April 2nd, 2009 07:06
hey i am done with the trial, and need to uninstall micro office 2007. however when i tried to uninstall it said “file is either corrupted or not available.” i tried to change Proof.xml back to but still cant uninstall. can any1 please show me how to uninstall?
April 1st, 2009 09:23
just tried it on my trial that had expired and it unlocked it worked for me great
March 31st, 2009 05:34
Worked great. Important note: You have to undo any changes when you try to uninstall, or uninstall will fail.
March 31st, 2009 00:08
Bonjour,
Je viens d’acheter une clé de licence mais le problème c’est que j’ai perdu ma sauvegarde du registre comment faire pour activer mon produit car j’ai payé, et j’ai besoin de word et tout le reste.
March 30th, 2009 20:28
it doesn’t work you, stupido !
March 30th, 2009 09:52
THIS ONLY WORKS FOR THE TRIAL TIME… EVEN NO ACTIVATION PROMPT APPEAR, AFTER THE TRIAL PERIOD FINISH, IT DOESN’T WORK ANYMORE… NOT GOOD~
March 27th, 2009 23:04
Worked for me about a month ago. THANK YOU!
March 27th, 2009 01:48
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March 27th, 2009 01:46
Hieeeerrr
Falls es HILFT!!
Ihr könnt einfach über das Telefon aktivieren oder sonst mit dem .dll
March 26th, 2009 07:33
Works great but expires in 30 day, any permanent fixes?
March 25th, 2009 22:24
This does work. This hack makes no promises of stopping the trial version from expiring – it simply gives you full use of Microsoft Office that is otherwise limited due to it’s trial status.
This works EXACTLY how the poster says it will. Open your eyes. Read. Stop being idiots.
March 24th, 2009 10:41
As said below, this no longer works. Dont waste your time trying it. Trial WILL expire, no matter whet you do.
March 21st, 2009 23:15
THIS-DOES-NOT-WORK… it only turns off the prompt to buy office. The demo will expire all the same at the end of the trial period.. why do people keep posting this obviously non-working hack?
March 21st, 2009 01:27
I did that as a trial, but I could not find how to undo that… and now I cannot edit any WORD document, I can only read, If I try to edit I receive this message… ” this modification is not allowed because the selection is locked”
Can somebody help me please, on how to undo this or re-allow editing documents.
Thanks!
March 21st, 2009 00:40
plz give me productr key of microsoft office 2007 version … i m vary in need of free version key ….
March 20th, 2009 18:45
THANK YOU SO DAMN MUCH!
March 20th, 2009 05:42
No way!! You rock!!
March 19th, 2009 20:46
thanks, this all works.
March 18th, 2009 21:10
this hack will lock use office after few uses!
use mso.dll cracked file’s to pass activation!
thus hack will lock ur offic!
March 18th, 2009 17:53
yourr amazing thankyouuuuu ( :
March 18th, 2009 13:03
weird… i did this a few months ago and its been working until now. Now when i open it the product key thing doesnt come up but the buttons become locked
March 18th, 2009 08:16
well I got to the LAST stage and right when I was going to save it wouldn’t let me.
I’m the administrator and have full control, what’s wrong??
Also I accidentally deleted a thing on number 4 that said ProductName. I just deleted it because there was nothing else under it. Is that a problem??