Applies To: Excel 2007 Word 2007 Outlook 2007 PowerPoint 2007 Access 2007 Publisher 2007 Visio 2007 OneNote 2007 Project 2007 SharePoint Designer 2007 Picture Manager 2007 InfoPath Edit Mode 2007 Office 2007 Office 2010 Project Standard 2007 Visio Standard 2007 All of your Office 2007 apps will continue to function. However, you could expose yourself to serious and potentially harmful security risks. Upgrade to a newer version of Office so you can stay up to date with all the latest features, patches, and security updates. Important: When you select the option to activate Office by telephone, you might receive this error: Telephone activation is no longer supported for your product. To activate Office by telephone, you can call the numbers for your specific country/region listed in this. Mar 11, 2011 End of Support for Office XP. Office XP Professional. And what will happen to Office XP activation? Office XP is the first Microsoft mainstream. When you start your Office 2007 programs for the first time after installation, you are prompted to enter your Product Key, if you have not already done so during Setup. For more information about your Product Key, see For additional troubleshooting information, visit the site. Activate my Office 2007 programs Activate Office 2007 over the Internet or by phone When you enter your valid Product Key, the Activation Wizard starts automatically and gives you two choices on how to proceed: • Activate by using the Internet The Activation Wizard automatically contacts the Microsoft licensing servers through your Internet connection. If you are using a valid Product Key that has not already been used for the allowed number of installations, your product is activated immediately. When you activate through the Internet, your product ID (derived from the installation Product Key) is sent to Microsoft. A response (the confirmation ID) is sent back to your computer to activate your product. If you choose to activate your product through the Internet and you are not already connected, the wizard alerts you that there is no connection. • Activate by using the telephone You can telephone an Activation Center using the numbers for your specific country/region listed in this to activate your product with the help of a customer service representative. Telephone activation might take longer than activation through the Internet. You should be at your computer when you call, and you should have your software Product Key available. • Call the Activation Center using the numbers for your specific country/region listed in this. The customer service representative asks you for your installation ID (displayed on your screen) and other relevant information. After your installation ID is verified, you receive a confirmation ID. • In the Activation Wizard, type the confirmation ID in the spaces provided at the bottom of the screen, and then press ENTER. • Telephone activation is not available for Trial and Subscription versions. • Microsoft Text Telephone (TT/TTY) services are available for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. In the United States, using a TT/TTY modem, dial (800) 718-1599. From outside the United States, using a TT/TTY modem, dial (716) 871-6859. TT/TTY service is only available in English. How do I activate Office 2007 at a later time? If you don't want to activate your copy of the software when you install it, you can activate it later. If you have a problem with your activation, contact a customer service representative by using the telephone number provided in the wizard. Which Office 2007 program are you using? Access • Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Access Options. • Click Resources, and then click Activate. • Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. Excel • Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Excel Options. • Click Resources, and then click Activate. • Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. InfoPath • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. OneNote • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. Outlook • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. PowerPoint • Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click PowerPoint Options. • Click Resources, and then click Activate. • Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. Project • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. Publisher • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. SharePoint Designer • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. Visio • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. Word • Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Word Options. • Click Resources, and then click Activate. • Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. How can I tell whether Office 2007 has been activated? Which Office 2007 program are you using? Access • Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Access Options. • Click Resources, and then click Activate. • If your software is activated, you receive the following confirmation message: This product has already been activated. If your software is not activated, the Activation Wizard starts. Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. Excel • Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Excel Options. • Click Resources, and then click Activate. • If your software is activated, you receive the following confirmation message: This product has already been activated. If your software is not activated, the Activation Wizard starts. Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. InfoPath • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • If your software is activated, you receive the following confirmation message: This product has already been activated. If your software is not activated, the Activation Wizard starts. Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. OneNote • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • If your software is activated, you receive the following confirmation message: This product has already been activated. If your software is not activated, the Activation Wizard starts. Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. Outlook • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • If your software is activated, you receive the following confirmation message: This product has already been activated. If your software is not activated, the Activation Wizard starts. Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. PowerPoint • Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click PowerPoint Options. • Click Resources, and then click Activate. • If your software is activated, you receive the following confirmation message: This product has already been activated. If your software is not activated, the Activation Wizard starts. Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. Project • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • If your software is activated, you receive the following confirmation message: This product has already been activated. If your software is not activated, the Activation Wizard starts. Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. Publisher • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • If your software is activated, you receive the following confirmation message: This product has already been activated. If your software is not activated, the Activation Wizard starts. Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. SharePoint Designer • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • If your software is activated, you receive the following confirmation message: This product has already been activated. If your software is not activated, the Activation Wizard starts. Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. Visio • On the Help menu, click Activate Product. • If your software is activated, you receive the following confirmation message: This product has already been activated. If your software is not activated, the Activation Wizard starts. Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. Word • Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Word Options. • Click Resources, and then click Activate. • If your software is activated, you receive the following confirmation message: This product has already been activated. If your software is not activated, the Activation Wizard starts. Follow the instructions in the Activation Wizard. What are activation, grace period, and reduced functionality? To continue to use all the features of your product, you must activate the product. Microsoft Product Activation is a that verifies software products are legitimately licensed. Activation This process verifies the Product Key, which you must supply to install the product, is being used on computers permitted by the software license. Grace period Before you enter a valid Product Key, you can run the software 25 times, which is the grace period. During the grace period, certain features or programs might be enabled that are not included in the product you have purchased. After you enter a valid Product Key, you will see only the programs and features that you have purchased. Reduced Functionality mode After the grace period, if you have not entered a valid Product Key, the software goes into Reduced Functionality mode. In Reduced Functionality mode, your software behaves similarly to a viewer. You cannot save modifications to documents or create new documents, and functionality might be reduced. No existing files or documents are harmed in Reduced Functionality mode. After you enter your Product Key and activate your software, you will have full functionality for the programs and features that you purchased. Updated: August 13, 2001 Microsoft Corp. Is committed to the protection of intellectual property rights and to the reduction of software piracy worldwide. Product Activation technology is being included in Microsoft® Office XP, Visio® 2002 drawing and diagramming software, and Windows® XP operating system. This technology is aimed at reducing software piracy (the number of illegal copies of a product) as well as ensuring that Microsoft's customers are receiving the product quality that they expect. The goal of Product Activation is to reduce a form of piracy known as 'casual copying' or 'softlifting.' Casual copying is the sharing of software between people in a way that infringes on the software's end user license agreement (EULA). An example of casual copying is if someone were to obtain a copy of Office XP and load it on his or her PC, then share it with a second person who loaded it on his or her PC, then share it with a third person who loaded it on his or her PC, and so on. This form of piracy is prevalent and has been estimated by some industry trade groups to account for a staggering 50 percent of the economic losses due to piracy. Worldwide, the piracy rate is estimated to be 37 percent; in other words, one out of every three software products in the market is pirated. There are other forms of piracy as well such as counterfeiting, hard disk loading and Internet pirating. Although product activation will have an impact on those types of piracy, Microsoft has other initiatives to reduce piracy in those areas. Over time, reduced piracy means that the software industry can invest more in product development, quality and support. This ensures better products and more innovation for customers. Ultimately, customers will benefit from the economic impact of reduced piracy through increased job opportunities and higher wages. Customers will also receive the best value for their software investment by being able to receive updates and other product information. On This Page How Activation Works Those who acquire software licenses through one of Microsoft's volume licensing programs will not be required to activate those licenses. Microsoft understands the unique deployment requirements of businesses that need to acquire licenses in volume and provides product that does not require activation to those customers. Qualifying as a volume licensing customer is easier than many may think. Customers can qualify for Microsoft's Open Licensing program by purchasing as few as five licenses. More information on Microsoft Open Licensing and Microsoft's other volume licensing programs can be found at the business licensing Web site. Software acquired as packaged product will require activation. Software acquired on new PCs sold by OEMs will also require activation; however, the software may be activated by the OEM at the factory before delivery to the end user. Customers required to activate their software must complete a simple, straightforward and anonymous activation process that takes less than one minute when completed over the Internet. Activation can also be completed by telephoning Microsoft and speaking with a customer service representative. If activation is completed via the Internet, the product will take care of most of the work and will require very little user participation. If activation is completed by telephoning Microsoft, a customer service representative will assist with the activation. To make activation convenient, the products do not require activation immediately after installation. Office XP and its components will allow up to 50 launches before requiring activation. Visio 2002 will allow up to 10 launches before requiring activation. Windows XP will allow 30 days from first boot before requiring activation. Activation is not product registration. The only information required to activate is an Installation ID created by the software and, for Office XP and Visio 2002, the country in which the software is being installed. No personally identifiable information is required to activate. A diagram of the activation process is below. Once activation is completed, most users will never have to activate their installation again. Product Activation Fast Facts • Customers who acquire their licenses through one of Microsoft's volume licensing programs will not be required to activate those licenses. • Microsoft Product Activation is entirely software based and requires no hardware dongles, floppy diskettes or other external tools. • Microsoft Product Activation is easy for users to accomplish and for many users will only be required once for the life of the product (some users may have to activate again if they move the software from one PC to another or upgrade a significant number of components within their PC). • Activation is completely anonymous and requires no personally identifiable information from the end user. • Activation requires each instance of a product installation to be activated with Microsoft. • A unique Product Key is required for each installation. Customers may activate the product via one of two methods: • Internet. Microsoft servers process the activation and silently activate the product. Customer service representatives process activations and exceptions. • Activation call centers for telephone activations are located regionally worldwide. • Customer service representatives provide local language support. Mandatory Product Activation Data • The Installation ID is unique to each product and comprises two components: • Product ID. Unique to the product key used during installation • Hardware hash. Nonunique representation of the PC • The country in which the product is being installed (for Office XP and Visio 2002 only) Voluntary Product Registration Data • Name, company name and address • Phone and e-mail. Top 10 Myths About Product Activation Product activation will hamper corporate customers' deployment of software. Actually, corporate customers should only be minimally impacted, if at all. Licenses acquired by customers through one of Microsoft's volume licensing programs will not require activation. Product activation is an invasion of privacy. Microsoft absolutely respects the privacy of its customers and does not ask for any personally identifiable information to activate a product. Product Activation is completely anonymous. So it's anonymous, but you are still requiring information about the make and model of my PC. To ensure the end user's privacy, Microsoft uses a one-way mathematical algorithm to create the hardware hash used by Product Activation to create the Installation ID. Once created, the hash information cannot be calculated back to its original values. Hardware information is sent through the algorithm in the software on the PC — not at Microsoft — to create the hash. The raw hardware information is not known or sent to Microsoft. Ensuring end user privacy is a No. 1 design goal for Microsoft with Product Activation. Users must have Internet connectivity to activate. Product Activation provides two methods to activate: Internet and telephone. The Internet method requires that the PC be able to make a connection to the Internet. The telephone method requires the user to provide information to a customer service representative over the telephone. Counterfeiters are the real piracy problem. Software piracy comes in many different forms, some more widely known than others. Each type of piracy is unique and often requires unique protection methods. Counterfeiting is a common form of piracy. Others include hard disk loading, Internet pirating and casual copying, or softlifting. Casual copying is the sharing of software between people in a way that infringes on the software's EULA. An example of casual copying is if someone were to get a copy of Office XP and load it on his or her PC, then share it with a second person who loaded it on his or her PC, then share it with a third person who loaded it on his or her PC, and so on. This form of piracy is very prevalent and has been estimated by some industry trade groups to account for a staggering 50 percent of the economic losses due to piracy. It is this form of piracy, casual copying, that Microsoft is primarily looking to reduce with Product Activation. Microsoft is addressing the other forms of piracy with other initiatives such as Certificates of Authenticity (COA) that accompany new PCs with genuine licenses, edge-to-edge holograms, educational campaigns and, as needed, enforcement efforts. Activation is difficult to complete. Product Activation is actually very simple to complete. It requires just a few mouse clicks for those with Internet connectivity. For those who must activate over the telephone, the process with a customer service representative can be completed in just a couple of minutes. Most users' response is 'that's it?' Product Activation keeps users from changing or upgrading their hardware. Not true at all. Users can change or upgrade their hardware. One of the forms of piracy that Product Activation guards against is hard disk imaging. Not all forms of hard disk imaging are illegal. In the case where a pirate copies data from one PC hard drive to another to illegally run the software on two PCs, Product Activation stops that by forcing the copied software to be reactivated. It does so by comparing the hardware on which it was activated to the hardware on which it is now being booted. If the hardware is substantially different, then reactivation is required. If it is the same or similar, then the software will continue to work. Those who upgrade their PC's hardware substantially may be asked to reactivate. Reactivation for this reason is easy and can be completed by contacting Microsoft to obtain another confirmation ID. Product Activation changes the way Microsoft software is licensed. The underlying principles of Microsoft's software licenses have not changed. Microsoft's end user license agreements have always stipulated the number of PCs that software can be installed on. Product Activation does not change that. Product Activation has already been cracked, or at least it will be cracked very quickly, and therefore is of no anti-piracy benefit. Actually, Product Activation has yet to be cracked. The so-called 'crack' now being passed around the Internet contains a set of instructions for setting a registry key that disables activation. Microsoft made the existence of this registry key public to its technical beta testers back in early February telling them where it was and how to set it to disable activation, and included it as a testing tool. Still, the intellectual property protection arena is a cat-and-mouse game. All intellectual property protection technologies will be cracked at some point — it's just a matter of time. The measure of success is not completely stopping software piracy, which is probably an unattainable goal. Success is more likely to be measured in increased awareness of the terms of the license agreement and increased license compliance. Internet Explorer and Windows 2000 will begin requiring activation as well. Internet Explorer 6 does not require activation or activation of the operating system it has been installed on. Some Internet reports have suggested that; however, the registry key detailed in those reports is created by a separate software installation. The registry key is created by the installation of the Terminal Services client software and a connection to a Windows 2000 terminal server; it facilitates the licensing of Terminal Services.
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