Mac Office 2008 Home & Student Edition

So it has been awhile since my last rambling; however, I thought this would be extremely helpful to many of the users who purchased Office: mac 2008 Home & Student Edition.

Now I have two MacBook computers and seeing that Office:mac 2008 H&S comes with 3 keys I figured I could install two keys and be done with it. Well the only problem is that I forgot which key I installed seeing as I installed Office:mac 2008 H&S on both MacBooks at different times. So what is the problem? I inadvertently installed the same key on both MacBooks so when I use using them both today I couldn’t have Word 2008 open on both. I would receieve an error message that they key is already in use/installed.

Now luckily Microsoft was gracious enough to put the first 3 characters of the product key in the error message, so all I needed to do was figure out how to to change the product key to one of the other two I had purchased. Well the only way officially by Microsoft as per the e-mail was, “in order to change the product key you must re-install Office:mac 2008 H&S.” Now this I do not approve of, so I go on the wonderful world of the wide web (aka the internet) and look around. Thanks to the wonderful folk(s) at MVPS I was able to reset the key without any troubles.

The process is quite simple actually but before you do anything make sure no Office:mac 2008 H&S application is open. So restart your computer if you have to and make sure the My Day application is switched off. Now, to do this change, basically you navigate to two different folders:

1. ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008
2. /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office

In the first folder what I did was right-click and select the option for “Compress ‘Microsoft Office 2008 Settings.plist’” so I would have a backup and then proceeded to delete it.

In the second folder I did the same but for the file “OfficePID.plist” and after that I simply emptied the trash and launched Word. At this point it prompt me with a wizard and I was able to input a product key and continue using both computers at the same time.

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