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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June 13th, 2009 22:09
Will this work on other languages version of office? (Portuguese version?) Are there any extra steps to get the portuguese version working?
June 10th, 2009 23:39
hopefully it will work like normal n steady
June 9th, 2009 22:05
Worked Great for Me.. TKS alot
June 9th, 2009 21:44
thanks gr8 work keep up pace!!
June 9th, 2009 02:40
hey thanks for this. it worked. although took me awhile to get the full permissions. but after that it worked
June 9th, 2009 02:15
Nice, thanks it worked nicely for me
June 8th, 2009 14:39
i don’t know what to delete in the registry key but.. all I did is changed the always install to never install and it worked..
June 8th, 2009 14:26
so this worked for me, until i guess it was the 25th time i wanted to use excel. its in reader mode and the xml file is neverInstalled and the product key is deleted and everything. but now i can’t uninstall it.
any ideas on how to either completely remove it? or how to make it work again? thanks.
June 8th, 2009 01:47
I have Windows Vista, it came with MS Office Home and Student. I decided to download MS Office Enterprise. I have tried keygens, I tried this and nothing had worked. Please, help! It seems that I will have to buy the program…
June 7th, 2009 14:31
OK this is the second crack (that actually works!) Install Office 2007 with a product key (not a trial product key!)and use this crack!
1. Install Office 2007
2. Enter the Serial (Don’t work without one)
3. Extract this stuff to:
C:Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12
Replace file when prompted
Open any Office 2007 Application. Like Word.
Click Activate by Phone. Pick your Country.
Fill all of the empty boxes with zeros so it looks
like this: 000000-000000-000000-000000-000000-000000
. Click Activate. and it will tell you it’s activated!
Get the OGA here http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4387686
I know it’s a lot of work but it worked 4 me. Maybe it will work 4 others…
FYI :I use Vista Basic, and made many modifications to the services.msc file disabling many microsoft programs.
June 7th, 2009 14:03
hey..
how can i fix my hacked ms office 2007?
it says below that…
“modification is not allowed because the selection is locked”
is there any way i can still use this?
please reply asap. i really need this. thanks
June 7th, 2009 10:57
Hey didn’t realize that this wouldn’t work if I had already put in a product code. So I tried to change to “neverinstall” but it didn’t work (of couse) but the problem is now I cannot remove the software because it says a file is corrupt. Any suggestions? I want to delete it so I can try another method.
June 6th, 2009 22:28
Vaaleu vey !
June 6th, 2009 01:54
wow..what a great work to break that,, i had troubled with office trial version downloaded from its site,, but u made the change great…………congrats mr.genius………
June 5th, 2009 05:35
Doesn’t work, I’ve followed all the procedures but after several times it becomes like a viewer.
I’ve XP Pro SP3
June 5th, 2009 01:17
in answer to the question vista users might have about allowing themselves full control, you just right click on ‘proof’ (the file itself) and choose properties>security>edit, choose the appropriate user and click ‘full control.’ hope that helps! it should allow you to save normally after that.
-b
June 4th, 2009 04:25
Hi,
i did it 2 month ago and it worked perfect.
But now i get the message:”This modification is not allowed because this selection is locked”
I did the discribed process again, but it still doesn’t work… any ideas??
June 3rd, 2009 11:46
A Minha versão do Office 2007 não existe o arquivo DIGITALPRODUCTID!!!!
June 3rd, 2009 04:56
It worked, thank you very much! Actually I did buy 4-5 licence for all my previous notebooks until now and I couldn’t transfer them. For this little netbook I just wanted to find a quick solution
June 2nd, 2009 21:31
For students, and people in education (with a real dot EDU address) there is a special from microsoft. You can buy office for around 60 american dollars. check the sale at http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-us/default.aspx
There is also a sale on vista ultimate upgrade.
June 2nd, 2009 17:02
Someone help me with this. i was enjoying the Microsoft office then after that my MS office got locked.
saying ” This modification is not allowed because the selection is locked.”
HOW?
June 2nd, 2009 06:59
For morrons who don’t manage to save the proof:
Copy it first on the desktop, then make the change.
Then save it, and move it back.
Accept overwrite.
Now you are ok…
Dont PANIC people
June 2nd, 2009 01:36
WOW.
this worked.
it is very easy.
thank you, I really needed it for college..they required office 2007 but i had bought 2003 and did not want to pay 500 dollars after paying 300. for 2003.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
June 1st, 2009 19:03
It work!THANK U SOOO MUCH!!
June 1st, 2009 17:44
5 STARS!!
Excelente ..
Muchas Gracias…