Office 2007 Home & Student activation issue beam-ray 2/9/2007 12:22:00 AM I just bought a laptop which comes with Windows Office 2007 Home & Student trial. I tried to activate it using Activation Assistant, but when I tried to request for the activation key, it says, "The Microsoft Office Activation Assistant was unable to detect a 2007 Microsoft Office release. Please check your computer for the software and try again." What's wrong?

Re: Office 2007 Home & Student activation issue "msnews.microsoft.com" <sloanc.online[ at ]microsoft.com> 2/10/2007 12:19:45 AM Actually, the Office Activation Assistant does not perform License Activation. It retrieves a Product Key to be used when the first launch of the Office software requests a Product Key. Based on the message being provided, there is no Office 2007 software installed. You can go to http://us1.trymicrosoftoffice.com/default.aspx?culture=en-US to download one of the Office 2007 Trial products. When you request a Trial product to download, you will be provided with a Product Key. Sloan Crayton Microsoft "beam-ray" <beam-ray[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D3607905-4948-41B5-B440-10DD416C1F31[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I just bought a laptop which comes with Windows Office 2007 Home & Student > trial. I tried to activate it using Activation Assistant, but when I tried > to > request for the activation key, it says, "The Microsoft Office Activation > Assistant was unable to detect a 2007 Microsoft Office release. Please > check > your computer for the software and try again." What's wrong?

Re: Office 2007 Home & Student activation issue startingover 3/18/2007 7:09:08 PM I'm having a similar problem. I purchased a laptop with a trial version already installed. I activated it without problem. However, after a day of use, everything locked & I can't edit or do anything in Word. I get the screen that says it's a trial package & it has expired; I must convert to a full version. I don't want to do that. I want to use the trial version for the specified 60 days. I have been around & around with the manufacturer, Microsoft (just tell me they don't support the trial versions - support? I just want ACCESS to what I paid for), & the store where I bought it. No one helps. I've had so many problems I'm ready to return it & upgrade my Windows 98 desktop with XP. I digress. How can I get my trial version activated? I've tried new product keys from online numerous times without success. Still says it's expired. Please help !!! thanks "msnews.microsoft.com" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Actually, the Office Activation Assistant does not perform License > Activation. It retrieves a Product Key to be used when the first launch of > the Office software requests a Product Key. Based on the message being > provided, there is no Office 2007 software installed. You can go to > http://us1.trymicrosoftoffice.com/default.aspx?culture=en-US to download one > of the Office 2007 Trial products. When you request a Trial product to > download, you will be provided with a Product Key. > > Sloan Crayton > Microsoft > > "beam-ray" <beam-ray[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:D3607905-4948-41B5-B440-10DD416C1F31[ at ]microsoft.com... > >I just bought a laptop which comes with Windows Office 2007 Home & Student > > trial. I tried to activate it using Activation Assistant, but when I tried > > to > > request for the activation key, it says, "The Microsoft Office Activation > > Assistant was unable to detect a 2007 Microsoft Office release. Please > > check > > your computer for the software and try again." What's wrong? > > >

RE: Office 2007 Home & Student activation issue bvoneal 3/31/2007 12:44:00 AM "beam-ray" wrote: [Quoted Text] > I just bought a laptop which comes with Windows Office 2007 Home & Student > trial. I tried to activate it using Activation Assistant, but when I tried to > request for the activation key, it says, "The Microsoft Office Activation > Assistant was unable to detect a 2007 Microsoft Office release. Please check > your computer for the software and try again." What's wrong? I had the same exact problem. It seems to be a VISTA problem and the way I fixed it was using my old XP system to obtain a product key. The Activation icon on the desktop will not work with vista. Here's how I did it. FIRST .. get a product key for your trial ... this will only work in XP .. Vista just keeps you going in loops for some reason with page redirects on the MS site. Go to www.microsoft.com/office/trial/default.mspx ... follow the 'get activation key' links .. first one is in a window with a picture of a lady... keep following the links, register, and get your key. Write it down somewhere. Now back to your new computer. You have to open the 'missing/invisible' program. First go to your c drive via start menu/computer. On top left of window 'Organize' : Folder and Search Options : View: Show Hidden Files. With that done search for 'Office' on your C drive You should find a folder that has nothing but shortcuts in it to all the different office products included with your trial. Open one of these and when prompted for the product key enter the one you got from the other computer. Now your programs are ready for activation. Close the program and open it again. This time it will ask you if you want to activate it ... That would be a YES. Now the next time you open it it will tell you the date your trial will expire ... Mine is in May ... 60 days from today. As far as that activation wizard on the desktop goes?? trash it .. it's useless. You only have to do this for one of the apps in the trial .. it takes care of the others for you when you've done one.

RE: Office 2007 Home & Student activation issue startingover 3/31/2007 3:24:03 AM Thanks for all the info. I actually got a resolution through Microsoft, if you can believe that. Finally got through to someone who gave me a link to go to the download a new trial package (after uninstalling the previous one). Was able to get a new trial of Office Professional, which is the one I wanted anyway. And after all this, I'm thinking I might just use OpenOffice when this trial expires. I'm so disgusted. Anyway, thanks for your help! "bvoneal" wrote: [Quoted Text] > > > "beam-ray" wrote: > > > I just bought a laptop which comes with Windows Office 2007 Home & Student > > trial. I tried to activate it using Activation Assistant, but when I tried to > > request for the activation key, it says, "The Microsoft Office Activation > > Assistant was unable to detect a 2007 Microsoft Office release. Please check > > your computer for the software and try again." What's wrong? > > > I had the same exact problem. It seems to be a VISTA problem and the way I > fixed it was using my old XP system to obtain a product key. The Activation > icon on the desktop will not work with vista. > > Here's how I did it. > > FIRST .. get a product key for your trial ... this will only work in XP .. > Vista just keeps you going in loops for some reason with page redirects on > the MS site. > Go to www.microsoft.com/office/trial/default.mspx ... follow the 'get > activation key' links .. first one is in a window with a picture of a lady... > keep following the links, register, and get your key. Write it down > somewhere. > > Now back to your new computer. > > You have to open the 'missing/invisible' program. > > First go to your c drive via start menu/computer. On top left of window > 'Organize' : Folder and Search Options : View: Show Hidden Files. > > With that done search for 'Office' on your C drive > You should find a folder that has nothing but shortcuts in it to all the > different office products included with your trial. Open one of these and > when prompted for the product key enter the one you got from the other > computer. > > Now your programs are ready for activation. > > Close the program and open it again. This time it will ask you if you want > to activate it ... That would be a YES. > > Now the next time you open it it will tell you the date your trial will > expire ... Mine is in May ... 60 days from today. > > As far as that activation wizard on the desktop goes?? trash it .. it's > useless. > > You only have to do this for one of the apps in the trial .. it takes care > of the others for you when you've done one.