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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July 1st, 2009 01:30
Worked a treat. Cheers
June 30th, 2009 09:07
ive done it before but this time when i try to save the notepad document, it wont let me, it says the path or file isnt correct
June 29th, 2009 05:13
worked like a charm. big ups.
June 27th, 2009 08:50
READ PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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?
June 27th, 2009 07:11
SNANJI.SMU@GMAIL.COM
CAN SOMEONE EMAIL ME THE ACTIVATION NUMBER CODE PLEASEE\
THANKSS
June 26th, 2009 02:25
I performed these steps about a month ago, and it worked perfectly and then one day, it jsut stopped working. Office went back to reduced functionality mode and I don’t know why. I uninstalled office and then tried the steps again, and its not working, any help?
June 24th, 2009 22:41
This is the best activation tutorial that I ever found !!!!
Thanks
June 24th, 2009 19:10
Thanks, for this help.. I save a lot of money..
June 24th, 2009 18:19
hey it didnt work 4 me…it changed my office to read only……
June 24th, 2009 01:08
hey nice job, it worked…
until just today after 4-5 months when office just went into limited functionality mode (also known as piece of crap mode)
any ideas? i hav a vista laptop which had office 07 already installed
June 23rd, 2009 23:20
Thankssss so much. Work for me.!!!
June 23rd, 2009 13:31
guys i got the same prob,didn find prouctld etc….but changing in .xml,now it gonaworks…..:-)
June 22nd, 2009 07:22
thankss soo much it worked great
June 21st, 2009 18:09
HI, The hack has worked for me so far, but it says it will work for only 25 times. What can I do to avoid this?
June 21st, 2009 17:29
Hey it worked for a few days then it wont let me edit now. it keeps saying “this modification is not allowed becasue selection has been locked”
how do i resolve this? and i tried to delete office 2007 but i cant delet the program either! help!
June 20th, 2009 00:57
Hi, I have followed the instructions on hack on the office 2007 trial version, I am on Vista home premium OS, but after I did all of processes, the office 2007(excel, word, ppt etc) still cannot work, I cannot key in anything at all, please advsie what I should do to resolve this?
June 20th, 2009 00:52
Hi, I have follow the instruction on hack on the office 2007 trial version, I am on Vista home premium OS, but after I did all of process, the office 2007(excel, word, ppt etc) still cannot work, please help.
June 18th, 2009 09:12
You are the greatest!!!
I was in the middle of a company project when the trial expired. Since this was a Beta test on my own time before the company would look at it, I would have had to shell out needed money to continue.
Anyway, thanks again and I’ll turn off automatice updating.
June 17th, 2009 04:44
hey its great!!!!!
it is working fine n i m enjoying each n every funtionality without any promt for activation .
thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!
June 16th, 2009 23:29
Hmm.. I did it all but it still says “(Trial)” at the top ;(
June 16th, 2009 21:26
Thanks, It works perfectly to me even now is 2009.
Bow and salute!
June 16th, 2009 16:02
I tried but when i save the Proof.xml file it says that it cant and to make sure path and file are correct help please
June 16th, 2009 11:13
Worked great for me!
Thnak you so much bro.
June 15th, 2009 05:02
hi all well i must say it work for me on xp and vista thanks
June 14th, 2009 01:23
not working on my pc!!just 2 days it works!