How to access telephone activation?

[LSordo]

I have a what appears to be a completely legitimate copy of Office Standard
2007 that I inherited from a late cousin, but somehow, the activation key
label on the package has been ripped off of it.

The download from the CD seemed to have gone fine.

I have been trying to figure out how to call someone via telephone
activation as the MS help documents direct me to obtain a new activation key.

The problem is that when I run the activation wizard, it asks me for the
key, which I don't have, and when I hit continue, there is no step to enter
my region and find the number to call.

Maybe I'm somehow doing this via a preinstalled trial version?

The package says Office Standard 2007 with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and
Outlook included, yet I think I saw something at one point saying it was
Office Home and Student, which would indicate that I'm trying to get in via
the trial version.

I'm in Washington, DC. Can anyone simply tell me what the phone number is?

Otherwise, what should I do?

 

[LSordo]

Good thinking -- I bet that's exactly what happened. I'll look through her
computer receipts with an eye out for the label.

But given that this Acer already has the temporary Office installed, would
that do any good? Can I uninstall the preinstalled temporary version and
then install the disc? If no, would reinstalling Vista nuke the temporary
Office (I may have to do that for other reasons anyway).

Thank you very much for your help!

 

[DL]

You cannot do anything with a trial version other than buy a reatil version,
once the trial expires or simply uninstall it.
PS Buying direct from Amazon is generally cheaper than converting the trial
via MS, and you get the disks!
A Trial has to be uninstalled, the PC rebooted, prior to installing any cd
version.