Change Product Key Of Mac Office 2008
Posted by tech onJune 13, 2008 |
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Chances are, you may want to change the product key of your Mac Office 2008 upon finishing an update from their site because the product key used to install your Office 2008 installation used an invalid product key. If after the update it does detect that an invalid product key was used, the office assistant will keep on popping up while the application that you chose to open will never be seen. To reset the product key, delete the following files and send to trash.
- /Users/[username]/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/Microsoft Office 2008 settings.plist
- /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/OfficePID.plist
[username] would be the username of your laptop. Run any Mac Office 2008 application and the office assistant will now have a textfield of the product key for you to input.
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January 5th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Hey gang, I found this tip and tried it . . . but when the assistant pops up for me to input a new product key, when I click it doesn’t do anything. At all.
Idears?
Thanks!
January 20th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
This will help in imaging… we can install 2008 on a machine to be cloned to many machines and then do this trick to enter a new code. Much better than having to install office a number of times. Cool!
January 25th, 2010 at 10:18 am
hey guys…i tried it…and i couldnt find the ”microsoft office 2008 settings.plist file… so i tried it just like that and when i type on the new code and press continue ..and it doesnt do anything…it doesnt move at all .. please help
January 25th, 2010 at 10:52 am
hi alonso, did you change the string [username] to your username?
January 25th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
The same thing just happend to me. help please