Change Product Key Of Mac Office 2008
Posted by tech on
June 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.
January 26th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
good to know
January 31st, 2009 at 12:28 pm
thanks a lot man this was real simple and fully effective….saved me a headache for sure(:
January 31st, 2009 at 8:22 pm
yeah, same here.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:40 am
It worked perfect for me!
February 17th, 2009 at 3:51 am
I had a similar problem installing Office Mac 2008 for the first time. During the installation I was not asked for a product key, and later it would not launch, but just stopped after running the customer experience and updates sections of the installation manager.
The solution was:
1: trash the OfficePID.list file from Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/OfficePID.list
2. trash the folder “Office 2008″ from [username]/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008
After that, running any application brought up the product key entry window normally. The installation manager asked for customer experience entry and updates timing one final time. Then, after closing installation manager and re-opening the application it worked fine, as did the others.
Thanks to microsoft tech support.