MS Office 2008 Mac -- how to unregister?

[indigowave]

I purchased the Student/Teacher edition but it's not going to work for me due to the Excel performance. I'm going to sell it but I want to make sure I unregister the license I'm using so that the next buyer will get the full package. If I go through the "Remove Office" process under Additional Tools, will that deregister the license, or do I need to do something else?

Thanks,

Jeff

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Jeff:

If you use Remove Office, that will be fine. You can then delete the
Microsoft Office 2008 folder. The licence key will remain on the machine,
but it won't be in use.

BTW: Performance will improve dramatically when they get the OS 10.5.2
conflicts solved. You may want to wait seven days to see if that fix is
amongst the ones due on March 11th

Cheers

I purchased the Student/Teacher edition but it's not going to work for me due
to the Excel performance. I'm going to sell it but I want to make sure I
unregister the license I'm using so that the next buyer will get the full
package. If I go through the "Remove Office" process under Additional Tools,
will that deregister the license, or do I need to do something else?

Thanks,

Jeff

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[Diane Ross]

I purchased the Student/Teacher edition but it's not going to work for me due
to the Excel performance. I'm going to sell it but I want to make sure I
unregister the license I'm using so that the next buyer will get the full
package. If I go through the "Remove Office" process under Additional Tools,
will that deregister the license, or do I need to do something else?

"Registration" has nothing to do with the operation of the software - unlike
the Activation required for MS Windows software.

Simply use "Remove Office" found in the Office --> Additional Tools folder
and it will remove all traces of Office on your computer.

FWIW, Registration is not required for Office Mac.

 

[indigowave]

Thanks for the quick replies. I did the Remove Office routine and while it wiped out a lot, it actually didn't take out the Office 2008 folder under Library>Preferences>Microsoft. If I wipe that out, too, I'm thinking I'm covered.

At that point will the new buyer of the software (Home & Student Ed.) have access to all three keys?

Thanks again,

Jeff

p.s. thanks for the note on the upcoming fixes. i bought a brand new macbook, upgraded the RAM, bought office 2008 just for improved spreadsheet processing...and was bitterly disappointed when my spreadsheets simply wouldn't run. it was awful. they would take 10 minutes to open then just hang there. copy & pasting 2 cells would take another 5 minutes. enough griping, thanks for the quick answers!

 

[Diane Ross]

Thanks for the quick replies. I did the Remove Office routine and while it
wiped out a lot, it actually didn't take out the Office 2008 folder under
Library>Preferences>Microsoft. If I wipe that out, too, I'm thinking I'm
covered.

Hmmmm, that's a bug in "Remove Office". You can trash that folder and any
..plist that starts .com.microsoft...

At that point will the new buyer of the software (Home & Student Ed.) have
access to all three keys?
Yes.


p.s. thanks for the note on the upcoming fixes. i bought a brand new macbook,
upgraded the RAM, bought office 2008 just for improved spreadsheet
processing...and was bitterly disappointed when my spreadsheets simply
wouldn't run. it was awful. they would take 10 minutes to open then just hang
there. copy & pasting 2 cells would take another 5 minutes. enough griping,
thanks for the quick answers!

This sounds like possible font corruption. Office 2008 has issues and we
will see improvements. I suspect that it will take at least two before most
of the major issues are fixed. You might want to hold out unless you get
full price.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Jeff:

Basically, once you do a Remove Office, you're covered.

Yeah, Excel 2008 is a very rough beta right now, isn't it?

Cheers

Thanks for the quick replies. I did the Remove Office routine and while it
wiped out a lot, it actually didn't take out the Office 2008 folder under
Library>Preferences>Microsoft. If I wipe that out, too, I'm thinking I'm
covered.

At that point will the new buyer of the software (Home & Student Ed.) have
access to all three keys?

Thanks again,

Jeff

p.s. thanks for the note on the upcoming fixes. i bought a brand new macbook,
upgraded the RAM, bought office 2008 just for improved spreadsheet
processing...and was bitterly disappointed when my spreadsheets simply
wouldn't run. it was awful. they would take 10 minutes to open then just hang
there. copy & pasting 2 cells would take another 5 minutes. enough griping,
thanks for the quick answers!

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50