Reinstall Office on newly formated system

[Phil Braniff]

One of our PC's needs to be reformatted and all the
software reinstalled. I have 3 copies ($1,370.00) of
Office Standard sitting on my desk. Before I blow away
the system in question, I wanted to identify which one of
the Office CD's matches the current software on the
system, so that I could reinstall it once I lay down the
operating system again. How do I match the KEY code on
the CD's with the actual cerial number of Office. How
can I tell which one should be installed. Will there be
a problem, since it's already registered, but will be
laid down on the same pc once again.

I haven't blown the system away yet, I'm just in the
preparation stages and would like to do it right.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks,

Phil Braniff
(e-mail address removed)

 

[bxb7668]

Assuming that you have Office XP or 2003 installed, one of these tools
should give you the product key:

keyfinder (http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.html)
Belarc (http://www.belarc.com)
aida32 (http://aumha.org/freeware.php)

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
One of our PC's needs to be reformatted and all the
software reinstalled. I have 3 copies ($1,370.00) of
Office Standard sitting on my desk. Before I blow away
the system in question, I wanted to identify which one of
the Office CD's matches the current software on the
system, so that I could reinstall it once I lay down the
operating system again. How do I match the KEY code on
the CD's with the actual cerial number of Office. How
can I tell which one should be installed. Will there be
a problem, since it's already registered, but will be
laid down on the same pc once again.

I haven't blown the system away yet, I'm just in the
preparation stages and would like to do it right.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks,

Phil Braniff
(e-mail address removed)
.

Phil,

Open Word or Excel, and go to Help | About Microsoft
Word/Excel. This should list the Product ID number.