Need to change serial numbers

[Kurt]

Accidently installed same serial on another networked machine.
Only discovered this a couple weeks later.
I believe there's an easier way to change the serial rather than
deinstall and reinstall, but the solution is not obvious by any means.
Any thoughts?

TIA

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Accidently installed same serial on another networked machine.
Only discovered this a couple weeks later.
I believe there's an easier way to change the serial rather than
deinstall and reinstall, but the solution is not obvious by any means.

See http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/pid.html

 

[Kurt]

See http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/pid.html

from your page:

"For Office 2004, Remove Office is in the Additional Tools folder. At
least for later versions of Office 2004, launching the Remove Office
application, then holding down the Option key at the first dialog will
change the Continue Button to read Remove Licensing Information Only.
Click that button and you'll be able to enter your new key."

No prompt is given to enter new key after removal. When I go back to
Word, old serial still shows up. I think you left a step out of your
instructions.
Will try deleting manually.

 

[Kurt]

See http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/pid.html

Also, your manual instructions for removing PID in Tiger don't work,
either.

cd /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2004/Office

does not get me path you say it should, nor does

ls O*

find me anything


PID cannot be found

 

[Kurt]

from your page:

"For Office 2004, Remove Office is in the Additional Tools folder. At
least for later versions of Office 2004, launching the Remove Office
application, then holding down the Option key at the first dialog will
change the Continue Button to read Remove Licensing Information Only.
Click that button and you'll be able to enter your new key."

No prompt is given to enter new key after removal. When I go back to
Word, old serial still shows up. I think you left a step out of your
instructions.
Will try deleting manually.

Found the missing step. You need to keep the Remove Office window open
after deleting reg info, then go to one of the Office apps and open to
begin the new serial install process.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Also, your manual instructions for removing PID in Tiger don't work,
either.

cd /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2004/Office

does not get me path you say it should,

What *does* it get?

Perhaps you have Terminal configured to start in something other than
your home directory (the factory default). That command certainly works
for me in Tiger. Or perhaps Office is installed somewhere other than the
boot volume's Application folder...

Are you using bash as your terminal app? What prompt do you get?

nor does ls O*

find me anything


PID cannot be found

Certainly, if ls isn't looking in the right directory, it won't find the
file.

 

[Kurt]

What *does* it get?

Perhaps you have Terminal configured to start in something other than
your home directory (the factory default). That command certainly works
for me in Tiger. Or perhaps Office is installed somewhere other than the
boot volume's Application folder...

Are you using bash as your terminal app? What prompt do you get?


Certainly, if ls isn't looking in the right directory, it won't find the
file.

Tiger. Default configured. Cut and pasted your commands, couldn't find
right directory with them.
Don't sweat it. Got it to work outside of terminal. Appreciate your
help. A lot more than MS could provide.