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April 16th, 2008, 01:23 PM
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How can I tell if my Office 2007 can be unlocked with an OEM key?
Hi all, I hope this is the right place to ask this:
I've just received a new laptop with Office 2007 pre-installed. My first assumption was that this was the full version, but it turns out to be a trial version. The supplier of the laptop does not answer any questions concerning this (not my supplier anymore as you might understand), and my trial is running out, so I need to get the full version of Office 2007. I now have two options: buy the OEM version or the retail version. I've read that the OEM version will only work with pre-installed Office 2007 (Office Ready it's called?). Now my question is, how can I figure out if I have a trial version pre-installed or if I have an Office Ready Office 2007 waiting for an OEM-key? And no, asking my supplier is useless. Does anyone have an idea? I've read somewhere that it should show up in your "system" tab, where it should say Office Ready underneath the OS specification. Can someone confirm this? Any help greatly appreciated! 
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April 16th, 2008, 02:21 PM
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How can I tell if my Office 2007 can be unlocked with an OEM key?
How to determine whether you have a trial edition of a 2007 Office suite or program installed:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927920/en-us How to convert a trial version of a 2007 Office suite or program to a full retail perpetual license version: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927756/en-us How to buy the 2007 Microsoft Office suites: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/su...px?ofcresset=1 -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience - Windows System & Performance --------------------------------------------------------------- "Cornfleek" wrote: Hi all, I hope this is the right place to ask this: I've just received a new laptop with Office 2007 pre-installed. My first assumption was that this was the full version, but it turns out to be a trial version. The supplier of the laptop does not answer any questions concerning this (not my supplier anymore as you might understand), and my trial is running out, so I need to get the full version of Office 2007. I now have two options: buy the OEM version or the retail version. I've read that the OEM version will only work with pre-installed Office 2007 (Office Ready it's called?). Now my question is, how can I figure out if I have a trial version pre-installed or if I have an Office Ready Office 2007 waiting for an OEM-key? And no, asking my supplier is useless. Does anyone have an idea? I've read somewhere that it should show up in your "system" tab, where it should say Office Ready underneath the OS specification. Can someone confirm this? Any help greatly appreciated!
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April 16th, 2008, 03:15 PM
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How can I tell if my Office 2007 can be unlocked with an OEM k
Hi Carey, thanks for the reply,
The problem is that according to your first link, there are three ways to tell if it's a trial: 1) in the About Program_Name bit -- it doesn't say trial for me 2) in the task bar -- it DOES say trial for me 3) in Add/Remove programs -- it doesn't say trial for me I wonder if I am running an "office ready trial version" is such a thing exists. I've tried the activation assistant and such, and this does nog give any info on what to buy, retail or oem. Price difference is major, and I hate being forced to gamble and go for OEM, only to find out it doesn't work... The other way round it would be a waste of money to buy retail when OEM would suffice. Thanks so far! "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote: How to determine whether you have a trial edition of a 2007 Office suite or program installed: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927920/en-us How to convert a trial version of a 2007 Office suite or program to a full retail perpetual license version: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927756/en-us How to buy the 2007 Microsoft Office suites: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/su...px?ofcresset=1 -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience - Windows System & Performance --------------------------------------------------------------- "Cornfleek" wrote: Hi all, I hope this is the right place to ask this: I've just received a new laptop with Office 2007 pre-installed. My first assumption was that this was the full version, but it turns out to be a trial version. The supplier of the laptop does not answer any questions concerning this (not my supplier anymore as you might understand), and my trial is running out, so I need to get the full version of Office 2007. I now have two options: buy the OEM version or the retail version. I've read that the OEM version will only work with pre-installed Office 2007 (Office Ready it's called?). Now my question is, how can I figure out if I have a trial version pre-installed or if I have an Office Ready Office 2007 waiting for an OEM-key? And no, asking my supplier is useless. Does anyone have an idea? I've read somewhere that it should show up in your "system" tab, where it should say Office Ready underneath the OS specification. Can someone confirm this? Any help greatly appreciated!
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April 16th, 2008, 07:16 PM
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How can I tell if my Office 2007 can be unlocked with an OEM k
If your laptop paperwork didnt contain a key for Office, and you didnt pay
the significant sum of monies for Office then its a trial If you buy an OEM version of office its locked to that Laptop, and dies with that PC If your laptop had Works or similar installed, you may qualify for an upgrade version Buying from eg amazon.com may be cheaper than other places *Uninstall any trial prior to installing any other version* "Cornfleek" wrote in message ... Hi Carey, thanks for the reply, The problem is that according to your first link, there are three ways to tell if it's a trial: 1) in the About Program_Name bit -- it doesn't say trial for me 2) in the task bar -- it DOES say trial for me 3) in Add/Remove programs -- it doesn't say trial for me I wonder if I am running an "office ready trial version" is such a thing exists. I've tried the activation assistant and such, and this does nog give any info on what to buy, retail or oem. Price difference is major, and I hate being forced to gamble and go for OEM, only to find out it doesn't work... The other way round it would be a waste of money to buy retail when OEM would suffice. Thanks so far! "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote: How to determine whether you have a trial edition of a 2007 Office suite or program installed: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927920/en-us How to convert a trial version of a 2007 Office suite or program to a full retail perpetual license version: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927756/en-us How to buy the 2007 Microsoft Office suites: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/su...px?ofcresset=1 -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience - Windows System & Performance --------------------------------------------------------------- "Cornfleek" wrote: Hi all, I hope this is the right place to ask this: I've just received a new laptop with Office 2007 pre-installed. My first assumption was that this was the full version, but it turns out to be a trial version. The supplier of the laptop does not answer any questions concerning this (not my supplier anymore as you might understand), and my trial is running out, so I need to get the full version of Office 2007. I now have two options: buy the OEM version or the retail version. I've read that the OEM version will only work with pre-installed Office 2007 (Office Ready it's called?). Now my question is, how can I figure out if I have a trial version pre-installed or if I have an Office Ready Office 2007 waiting for an OEM-key? And no, asking my supplier is useless. Does anyone have an idea? I've read somewhere that it should show up in your "system" tab, where it should say Office Ready underneath the OS specification. Can someone confirm this? Any help greatly appreciated!
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April 29th, 2008, 02:23 PM
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How can I tell if my Office 2007 can be unlocked with an OEM k
Hi,
Thanks again for your input. Following your responses I'd have to conclude that there was only one thing to do for me, buy the retail version. What happened though is that I've taken a gamble, and bought the OEM MLK version instead. And guess what, it worked just fine, so now we have a working version of Office 2007 which apparently was Office Ready afterall. Both the HP helpdesk and the Microsoft telephone helpdesk were wrong apparently and wrongly advised us to purchase the Retail version. Weird but wonderful :-) "DL" wrote: If your laptop paperwork didnt contain a key for Office, and you didnt pay the significant sum of monies for Office then its a trial If you buy an OEM version of office its locked to that Laptop, and dies with that PC If your laptop had Works or similar installed, you may qualify for an upgrade version Buying from eg amazon.com may be cheaper than other places *Uninstall any trial prior to installing any other version* "Cornfleek" wrote in message ... Hi Carey, thanks for the reply, The problem is that according to your first link, there are three ways to tell if it's a trial: 1) in the About Program_Name bit -- it doesn't say trial for me 2) in the task bar -- it DOES say trial for me 3) in Add/Remove programs -- it doesn't say trial for me I wonder if I am running an "office ready trial version" is such a thing exists. I've tried the activation assistant and such, and this does nog give any info on what to buy, retail or oem. Price difference is major, and I hate being forced to gamble and go for OEM, only to find out it doesn't work... The other way round it would be a waste of money to buy retail when OEM would suffice. Thanks so far! "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote: How to determine whether you have a trial edition of a 2007 Office suite or program installed: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927920/en-us How to convert a trial version of a 2007 Office suite or program to a full retail perpetual license version: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927756/en-us How to buy the 2007 Microsoft Office suites: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/su...px?ofcresset=1 -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience - Windows System & Performance --------------------------------------------------------------- "Cornfleek" wrote: Hi all, I hope this is the right place to ask this: I've just received a new laptop with Office 2007 pre-installed. My first assumption was that this was the full version, but it turns out to be a trial version. The supplier of the laptop does not answer any questions concerning this (not my supplier anymore as you might understand), and my trial is running out, so I need to get the full version of Office 2007. I now have two options: buy the OEM version or the retail version. I've read that the OEM version will only work with pre-installed Office 2007 (Office Ready it's called?). Now my question is, how can I figure out if I have a trial version pre-installed or if I have an Office Ready Office 2007 waiting for an OEM-key? And no, asking my supplier is useless. Does anyone have an idea? I've read somewhere that it should show up in your "system" tab, where it should say Office Ready underneath the OS specification. Can someone confirm this? Any help greatly appreciated!
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