Unless you paid extra for Office, its a trial which requires Activating,
usually there's a Activation Assistant shortcut on the desktop.
Registration is optional, Activation is compulsory.
When the trial expires you will need to uninstall the Trial together with
Activation Assistant, re boot prior to installing your paid for version.


"5monkeys" wrote in message
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i have bought a brand new hp laptop with windows 7 and offfice already
installed. outlook does not have a product key and keeps asking me to
register it soon. what to do?