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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October 31st, 2009 at 2:06 pm
What if I don’t have a product key or my DVD or Install Guide on me?
October 31st, 2009 at 5:59 pm
can’t help you if you do not have your product key with you. sorry.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:41 am
super! worked a treat…thanks
November 13th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Adrian got it right above. Just deleting the OfficePID.list file didnt work. I had to delete the preferences folder as well.
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
November 13th, 2009 at 9:37 am
hey! thanks for that added tip!