Actually, the Office Activation Assistant does not perform License
Activation. It retrieves a Product Key to be used when the first launch of
the Office software requests a Product Key. Based on the message being
provided, there is no Office 2007 software installed. You can go to
http://us1.trymicrosoftoffice.com/de...?culture=en-US to download one
of the Office 2007 Trial products. When you request a Trial product to
download, you will be provided with a Product Key.

Sloan Crayton
Microsoft

"beam-ray" wrote in message
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I just bought a laptop which comes with Windows Office 2007 Home & Student
trial. I tried to activate it using Activation Assistant, but when I tried
to
request for the activation key, it says, "The Microsoft Office Activation
Assistant was unable to detect a 2007 Microsoft Office release. Please
check
your computer for the software and try again." What's wrong?