Office 2007 Trial expired after installation

[Harry]

I installed Office 2007 Trial Jan 30 07 for a 60 day trial and it is
prompting me to acivate already and is in the limited funtion mode. How can
I correct this?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Activate it.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

 

[Harry]

the activation key won't work I've tried several times

Activate it.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

I installed Office 2007 Trial Jan 30 07 for a 60 day trial and it is
prompting me to acivate already and is in the limited funtion mode. How
can
I correct this?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Now *that* is a different issue. I've seen others who had difficulties with
activation. What happened when you tried.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

the activation key won't work I've tried several times

Activate it.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

I installed Office 2007 Trial Jan 30 07 for a 60 day trial and it is
prompting me to acivate already and is in the limited funtion mode.
How
can
I correct this?

 

[Harry]

It's actually asking me to convert to the full version, when I enter the
product key that I got with the download it goes through the installation
prosses and a message say's that it was succesful. But next time I start the
a program ie. Outlook it is still prompting me to convert and it is still in
limited mode. I've had many problemms with the instalation and have had to
re-install 4 times now.

Now *that* is a different issue. I've seen others who had difficulties with
activation. What happened when you tried.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

the activation key won't work I've tried several times

Activate it.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




I installed Office 2007 Trial Jan 30 07 for a 60 day trial and it is
prompting me to acivate already and is in the limited funtion mode.
How
can
I correct this?

 

[Harry]

PS the pop-up says that the trial period has exprired but it is not supose to
until March 31

Now *that* is a different issue. I've seen others who had difficulties with
activation. What happened when you tried.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

the activation key won't work I've tried several times

Activate it.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




I installed Office 2007 Trial Jan 30 07 for a 60 day trial and it is
prompting me to acivate already and is in the limited funtion mode.
How
can
I correct this?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Harry,

With all Office apps closed Use Start=>Search and locate the file opa12.dat and recycle it, then restart the PC, start one of the
Office 2007 trial edition apps and see if you can activate it.

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PS the pop-up says that the trial period has exprired but it is not supose to until March 31 >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Libra]

On my XP I couldnt locate the file thru the use of Start=>Search and locate
the file opa12.dat.

However i did find the file via:
1. Click Start, click Run, type %AllUsersprofile%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Office\Data, and then click OK.
2. Locate the Opa12.dat file in the Data folder.
3. Right-click the Opa12.dat file, and then click Delete.

Important Do not delete the Opa12.bak file.
4. Close the folder.
5. Start a 2007 Office program to start the 2007 Office Activation Wizard.

Note When you uninstall the 2007 Office product, the license file is not
removed. Additionally, the license file is not overwritten when you reinstall
the 2007 Office product. By deleting the Opa12.dat file, you force the
license file to be recreated.
(info found in the MS Knowledgebase)

After that i started outlook2007 and the activation wizard was prompted, and
i was able to activate. The trial works now!

 

[SeanM1234]

Worked for me - thanks Libra!

On my XP I couldnt locate the file thru the use of Start=>Search and locate
the file opa12.dat.

However i did find the file via:
1. Click Start, click Run, type %AllUsersprofile%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Office\Data, and then click OK.
2. Locate the Opa12.dat file in the Data folder.
3. Right-click the Opa12.dat file, and then click Delete.

Important Do not delete the Opa12.bak file.
4. Close the folder.
5. Start a 2007 Office program to start the 2007 Office Activation Wizard.

Note When you uninstall the 2007 Office product, the license file is not
removed. Additionally, the license file is not overwritten when you reinstall
the 2007 Office product. By deleting the Opa12.dat file, you force the
license file to be recreated.
(info found in the MS Knowledgebase)

After that i started outlook2007 and the activation wizard was prompted, and
i was able to activate. The trial works now!

 

[aliengas]

Does anyone know what to do on Vista to fix the same problem?

 

[melander]

in vista

show hidden files and folders
go to x:\program data\microsoft\office\data
delete opa12.dat
try activation again
good luck