The hardware identification identifies only the computer, only for the purpose of activation. During activation, you may also provide your personal contact information (name and address) if you want to register your product with Microsoft. The Office Activation Wizard can detect and tolerate changes to your computer's configuration. You can use any of these tools to extract the product key from your old machine: Tools to Extract Product Key I have tried the first 6 in this list with various degrees of success: My Inspiron laptop came with Office 2007 preloaded and no disk. Because of that I made a copy of the program on my own disk, not realizing that of course I'd need a product key if I wanted to reinstall. Well, I did reinstall because a 7-yr-old laptop just needs to be refurbished. Now I can't use Office 2007 because I don't have the product key. Changing the Product Key for Office 2007 or previous requires you to go into the Registry. Browse to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ \Registration. Now is a good point to make a backup of that key; Right click on the key, choose Export… and save the file to for instance your Desktop. Microsoft Office can be acquire thru several sources, and each has its own way to find the Product Key. Retail full packaged product is how you would by Office from an online or local retail store. It would come in the fancy clear plastic rounded package that opens to the side. Graham Mayor. MVP. Replied on December 17, 2010. Report abuse. It seems likely that either you have another trial of Office installed, or. the version of Office uou are trying to activate is not the version for which you have a purchased key. or. you are entering the key incorrectly. LtpXJ. In fact, if you lost your Office 2007 product key, you could retrieve it by many methods, please refer to this case below. Therefore, you still need to buy However, I don't have the original media for Microsoft Office Student Edition that I purchased at the time of the PC purchase, or the Office 2007 upgrade I bought and installed last year sometime. How can I get the software and find and document my MS Office registration code? when I have these, I can swap out my new hard drive, format and I have just upgraded to windows 10. Nothing from office2007 works. I have uninstalled and reinstalled office 2007 three times. Still cannot open any office document at all. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are all not working. I can't open a document and I cant open the Word program. I rolled back to Win8.1 and everything works again. I have a Microsoft Word 2007 CD, but lost the paper with the serial code/product key. I have a new computer and want to install it on there. I have it installed on the old computer. Is there any way to find out the product key from the installed version on the old computer so I can reinstall it on the new computer? It does not expire. Certain license types do expire, but I don't think yours does, judging from what you've said. Never rely on downloads existing forever. After you download an installaiton kit, burn it to a CD or DVD do you'll have it. I also put it on a USB flash drive and also put a copy on my SkyDrive space.

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