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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September 24th, 2009 04:44
Hi, please help me. I did everything. Everything looks good and easy, BUT PROBLEM COMES in the 6.step. I CANT SAVE this new already created FILE.
I have Vista 
Thank for help.Petr
September 24th, 2009 01:21
I have completed all the hack steps but when I start Word I can not open a new document or edit and existing. Msg. displayed .
“This modification is not allowed because the selection is locked”
Can anyone help that found this problem”
September 24th, 2009 01:09
Hack doesn’t work
I’m not a newbee but on step 5 I can’t find the values to delete. When I use the search I only find these values in the Windows reg. folder and felt I better not delete them.
Please help.
5. Once found the correct registry subkey, delete the following values:
DigitalProductID
ProductID
September 23rd, 2009 22:00
wow man… yu are a genius…. i think yu are an microsoft employeee…
September 22nd, 2009 20:19
Gday, I run vista and have microsoft office 2007 student. Can’t for the life of me figure this out. What is the Product ID and Digital Product ID? Are these values or letters? I also cant save or replace the notpad file neverinstalled? Any help out there?
Cheers,
Daniel
September 22nd, 2009 16:09
hi
I tried to hack 2007 and i got caught so i tried to delete the registration key in REGEDIT so now it comes out with this install thingy and it is annoying. I cant even delete it in the Add or Remove Programs thingy
September 22nd, 2009 09:17
I tried to do this hack. but once i get to the part where i need to search for this C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en\ it doesnt come up. I dont really know what else to do. can you help?
September 22nd, 2009 03:43
this so does not work n it frustrates me =V
September 22nd, 2009 01:07
People, delete the Office 2007 using Microsoft’s tool
Now, do URself a favor and install Open Office .
Read this article and look at other good options…
September 21st, 2009 22:36
great job… works perfect..!!!
thanks… nd all u jerks below, instead of asking for the key 2 be mailed.. jus follow these simple instructions..!!!
September 21st, 2009 11:59
i did this and it worked. But then i closed it and opened another file. the it said [compatibility mode] and went back to when i was like a trial.
September 21st, 2009 10:40
Hey all,
I know that if you try to update Microsoft Office that it will mess up the hack. Will Windows Updates also mess up this hack?? I’d rather not turn off Windows updates if I didn’t have to but I need Office. Thanks.
September 21st, 2009 08:58
it is so funny how some ppl think that putting “for educational purposes” will keep them out of any legal trouble. if it was that easy the riaa would have been put out of business long ago
September 20th, 2009 22:39
excellent!!! I though it was not gonna work, but its great and extremely easy, cheers
September 20th, 2009 20:26
modification is not allowed because the section is locked, I get such message in microsoft office student and home 2007 edition, how can I edit my documents , I cannot also bye the full version
September 20th, 2009 02:20
Works like a charm thanks! At first i did the second step and that didn’t work, but then I went back and did the first step and now it works! Thanks again!
September 17th, 2009 11:49
Are you kidding me people! This was cake! Just change your permissions to this file b4 editing…. It worked to perfection! Im such a PC novice admitingly and I got it to work without a hitch. At first it DID deny permission but then I used my brain for 2 seconds and changed the permissions! GREAT JOB!
September 17th, 2009 11:35
you are a saint!!!!
September 16th, 2009 20:16
After unsuccessfully trying to save proof file with change to “Neverinstalled” i took another reviewers advice of saving proof file to my documents, that is after deleting product id and registration numbers. When proof file is in documents change “alwaysinstalled to “never installed”In the
. Delete original proof file totally and paste the new amended file containing “neverinstalled” in its place. This worked for me!!
Thank you
September 16th, 2009 15:56
I coulnt get it to save so i just deleted all the registration code numbers like u listed in the 1st stage of the solution. How do i get it to Save the “Neverinstalled” part it keep saying incoorect path unable blah blah. I sort of have solution now but i have to put trail product key in every time i want to use the extra options…very annoying
September 15th, 2009 08:58
i did this without reading the reviews, and it worked in the sense that the program didn’t ask for the product key
so it hit me that i should read the reviews, and many people have said that this leads to locking the program after the trial is up and being unable to uninstall it, because you can’t change the never installed back to alwaysinstalled. i had the problem where i could not get it to save, but after about five tries it worked, and now when i open the trial microsoft office it asks for product key again.
no solution to the problem, but solution for problem of the solution to the problem.
September 14th, 2009 19:25
BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 13th, 2009 22:14
This works for me.
I downloaded word as a torrent for educational purposes.
So thumbs up.
September 12th, 2009 21:55
does someone has really a solution that works
or a link for a download of 2007 with key that has been tested.
thanks
September 12th, 2009 19:09
i have tried this and every hack i can find and it still locks me out after so many days or uses. i have vista 64 and have even gone into the wow6432node after software and before microsoft which is where the files and id’s that you are altering are located. then i am unable to uninstall completely to reinstall the product again.