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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May 9th, 2009 19:45
AMAZING, man!
It’s all working. So far, so good…
Great. THhanks!
May 7th, 2009 22:03
I already have Microsoft Office 2007 (FULL VERSION) haha on all 5 computers that I have! If you get new computer, u will get MS Office for free…
May 7th, 2009 17:40
hi
i downloaded microsoft office 2007 trial and then followed steps on how to hack but only worked for about 3 weeks now everytime i open word, either with a document or without it is in compabitlity mode and i cant modify docs
please help me on how i can get an activation key
or bypass this
thanks andy
May 7th, 2009 08:51
I followed all the steps and at the end when i have to save it, a box came up stating that it was unable to save, “make sure the file name and path are correct”.
May 7th, 2009 06:33
what happens if the registration file is missing?
May 6th, 2009 21:38
hi everyone, i only knw 1 thing abt not losing ur trial office progs functionality. Just set ur desktop date back to the period before ur trial is nearing expiry & enjoy working on ur doc as if u have purchased the license.the only disadvantage of this is ur date is not showing the real calendar but hey, who cares..Good luck!!
May 5th, 2009 15:41
Hi,
My Microsoft Outlook stopped working after about 1 week. I can only receive, delete emails but cannot compose new emails anymore. What can i do. It appears that the rest of the programs are still working though. It hasn’t even past the 60 day trial period yet. Please hlep me. Thanks.
May 4th, 2009 20:44
Yes, I also lock…
how can I deal with that…
help me…
thank you…
^_^
May 3rd, 2009 14:28
hi,
Same problem too.
I have followed all the steps but now when I open office programs e.g. Word I can only view the document, I can’t modify. a message appears that says “modification is not allowed because the selection is locked”
Help
Omar
May 3rd, 2009 06:46
OMG THX ALOT IT WORKS NICELY
May 2nd, 2009 02:46
indeed, still works!
May 1st, 2009 20:57
thanks
May 1st, 2009 16:26
thankyou
May 1st, 2009 04:19
aqui eu fiz tudo direitinho mas não sei se dei update e não funciona aqui.
May 1st, 2009 02:50
still works
)
April 30th, 2009 23:06
Microsoft has patched Office 2007 so that this option doesn’t work anymore. No widely known solution is available except to buy a real copy of it. Depending on what you need in the suite it isn’t that costly sometimes… especially if you are a student.
April 30th, 2009 17:35
Hi,
I recently followed the step by step instructions, which were very easy to follow and it did unlock office 2007 for me. But a week later my office is now locked and I am unable to do anything…
Is there any way to fix this problem. I dont want to restart my office as Ive got alot of vital info on here…. Please get bk at me asap
April 29th, 2009 23:21
it worked for a while then it didnt. it just says “cannot be modified”
April 27th, 2009 22:42
Same thing at 1004 actually. Was working fine for about a month. :/
April 27th, 2009 22:39
Getting the same message as 1051 too.
April 27th, 2009 22:38
Yeah… looks like this hack breaks after a period of time or perhaps someone accidentally ran a Windows update that killed it. At any rate it looks like this install is dead… or at least I don’t have a new idea to continue. :/ Tried setting back to original (restoring the reg entries, restoring the file to AlwaysInstalled) opening up Word and then closing and re-following steps. No joy.
April 27th, 2009 22:28
This worked for me for awhile and then this weekend it stopped working. It’s showing as if it’s a view only program. :/
April 27th, 2009 21:51
I have tried it also and it IS NOT Working because my trial has expired.
seems the hack only block the GUI to not ask u for Product ID but in background it knows your trial has expired.
April 27th, 2009 13:12
Hi,
Thanks a lot, I tried and it it worked! Thanks again!
April 27th, 2009 06:32
hi,
I have followed all the steps but now when I open office programs e.g. Word I can only view the document, I can’t modify. a message appears that says “modification is not allowed because the selection is locked”
PLEASE HELP
thanks alot
jeri