If you bought Office 2007 with the computer, installed and activated at the factory then it is an OEM license and you can't transfer it to a new machine.
Whether you can actually install and activate on the new computer depends entirely on how you bought Office 2007. NOTE: The process described in the link in “g” is good for Office 365, and MAYBE (I can’t confirm) online purchases of Office 2013. However, the characters shown uniquely identify your product key.
It reported my Office 2003 2007 2010 product keys correctly.īUT for Office 2013 Pro Plus (local install) it did NOT report the key! Gosh Darn! It reported: 00215-95000-26121-AA381 (Key: ends with G8YGX) f,g NOTE : I tested version 8.4 on Windows 8.0. Printing the report, or saving it is probably a good idea. lol! I hope this helps someone else too! And remember backup before you do any upgrading/downgrading/or destructionĮxtract product keys, it reports on a WHOLE BUNCH of other stuff you want to know. Please note that this did work for my Office 2007, it also gave me my Vista Home & Personal Key, and Internet Explorer. Location depending on where your windows.old folder is located, but you want to basically browse to the following and open this file:Ĭ:\Windows.old\Windows\System32\config\RegBack\SOFTWAREĪfter opening this file select ok you may have to wait a few minutes for it to load the hive and give you your keys, but if they’re there you should see them and be able to fresh install your MS Office. Now from here you may have to browse to a slightly different Select the circle next to “Load the product keys from external Software Registry hive”. May appear a little overwhelming, don’t worry it’s not that complicated and your not going to break anything else. Try the /Regfile option.Īfter installing on my system, I ran the program à AS ADMINISTRATORĬlicked on File à Select Source. This is useful if you’re trying to get the key details from the backup of a now defunct machine. May be able to extract product key information from a file saved externally. You should be able to download and use one of these free tools to extract the product key from the old installation