How to change MS Office Registered User Info

[haganah]

Hello. In a windows environment, I remember being able to access the registry key and change the user information for the owner of office. Is it possible to do the equivalent on a mac and how?

 

[MisterMe]

Re: How to change MS Office Registered User Info

Originally posted by haganah
Hello. In a windows environment, I remember being able to access the registry key and change the user information for the owner of office. Is it possible to do the equivalent on a mac and how?

M$ Office v.X is secured only by a serial number. It does not call home for activation, nor does it require activation.

 

[haganah]

Re: Re: How to change MS Office Registered User Info

Originally posted by MisterMe
M$ Office v.X is secured only by a serial number. It does not call home for activation, nor does it require activation.

No I meant the name, company, serial screen that comes up in the beginning. Say I had written IBM as the company and changed my company later and wanted to also change that info on that screen, how would i do it?

I was able to search microsoft.com and found an answer. You delete 2 files in there (one from your preferences and the other is an invisible file called officeipd or something close to that). Once you do that, you restart any office app. I restarted MS Word and as soon as it started it pretty much ask me for my name, company, and serial number. So that's how you do it.

 

[slowtreme]

I was never able to get Office v.X to change the registered user info. I deleted the files but then EVERY time I restarted I had to enter it all over again. I tried for 6 months to find a work around (my CDROM was unreadable).

Eventually I just contacted MS, had them send me a new CD (no charge) and I reinstalled.