Office:2008 Re-Registration?
Posted February 5th, 2008 @ 10:05am by Erik J. Barzeski
I've received my copy of Office:2008.
Unfortunately, I cannot figure out how to un-register the previous version. I was using a friend's code (you get three licenses with the Home and Student Edition) and I'd like to free it up for her and use my own registration codes.
No idea how. I tried deleting files that looked promising, but I was never prompted for the registration again. I'm thinking it's an invisible file somewhere, but I know it's not in "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008" at least. I poked quickly around /Library and ~/Library but couldn't find anything1.
Any ideas? I'm going to feel bad despite not having done anything wrong if I have to visit hacker sites to figure out how to un-register Office so I can re-register it. 
P.S. Office:2008 users cannot currently register because the site rejects the product ID. This doesn't affect licensing the software to run on your computer, of course.
Footnotes
- I did manage to delete virtually everything from ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/ except the "Office 2008" folder. Man I had some old stuff still hanging out in there.↩
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Posted 05 Feb 2008 at 11:49am #
In Office 2004, you launch the "Remove Office" application in the Additional Tools folder in your Microsoft Office folder. After you lauch the application, hold the Option key down. The Continue button will change to read "Remove License Info Only."
I'm not sure if 2008 would work the same way or not.
Posted 05 Feb 2008 at 12:05pm #
Eric said on February 5, 2008:
It seems it does not, unfortunately. Darn, I was all excited that the solution might be that simple. Oh well.
Posted 06 Feb 2008 at 12:26pm #
Try this:
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/version/license_version.html#reset
Posted 06 Feb 2008 at 4:02pm #
Bob said on February 6, 2008:
That did it! Thanks Bob! Two files need to be removed.
Now if only the registration form would take actual product IDs.