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Title: Lost Key for M$ Office Small Business edition
Post by: TOFFEEMAN1878 on April 09, 2008, 12:51

Can anyone help? My wife has lost her Key for this program along with the booklet ,she wants to install the program on her new PC ,I have tried various key finding products such as sis.exe ,but none of them can find the key to this program on her old PC,so anyone have any idea how I can find the key in the registry? Thanks in Advance ........Jim

Title: Re: Lost Key for M$ Office Small Business edition
Post by: Simon on April 09, 2008, 13:02

Hi Jim,
 
Try Googling for Belarc Advisor.  Download and run it, on the machine on which Office is installed, and I think you'll find it will reveal the product key.

Title: Re: Lost Key for M$ Office Small Business edition
Post by: Michelle on April 09, 2008, 17:45

Is it not the same as the normal office?

if you open up a word document and click on help and open "about" the product id  is there

on ms office anyway .

Or is that the wrong thing?

Title: Re: Lost Key for M$ Office Small Business edition
Post by: TOFFEEMAN1878 on April 09, 2008, 18:04

Simon ,Tried Belarc as well only gives the OEM code
Michelle,Same with opening word or any of the Office programs ,looks like she will have to bite the bullet and buy the 2007 version & I just spent £785 on a service & pre MOT jobbie on my Disco better not to tell her I think !....Jim

Title: Re: Lost Key for M$ Office Small Business edition
Post by: Simon on April 09, 2008, 20:31

Jim, try this:  http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml  :thumb:

Title: Re: Lost Key for M$ Office Small Business edition
Post by: sam on April 09, 2008, 22:49

Quote from: TOFFEEMAN1878 on April 09, 2008, 18:04

Simon ,Tried Belarc as well only gives the OEM code
Michelle,Same with opening word or any of the Office programs ,looks like she will have to bite the bullet and buy the 2007 version & I just spent £785 on a service & pre MOT jobbie on my Disco better not to tell her I think !....Jim

do you need to? sorry to be the free software advocate but the latest version of open office is pretty good, not as "WOW" on the interface as M$ office but the best bit is it costs nothing... http://www.openoffice.org/

Title: Re: Lost Key for M$ Office Small Business edition
Post by: JK on April 13, 2008, 22:42

Hi
Do you have this software installed on another PC?
If you do you can try ''REGEDIT".
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE
MICROSOFT
OFFICE
INFO to find the serial number.
I agree with SAM, why pay so much for Microsoft products when the free openoffice can do the job.
I was lucky to win a competition for Ability Office software. Does exactly what Microsoft does for a fraction of the price. It even opens and save the files in Microsoft's file formats.

Title: Re: Lost Key for M$ Office Small Business edition
Post by: Simon on April 13, 2008, 23:00

That's useful, JK, thanks.  :thumb:

Title: Re: Lost Key for M$ Office Small Business edition
Post by: sam on April 14, 2008, 08:04

Quote from: JK on April 13, 2008, 22:42

I agree with SAM, why pay so much for Microsoft products when the free openoffice can do the job.
I was lucky to win a competition for Ability Office software. Does exactly what Microsoft does for a fraction of the price. It even opens and save the files in Microsoft's file formats.

openoffice can do that, and you can now get plugins to deal with microsofts new .docx format... a format they effectively copied from openoffice...