Change MacOffice 2004 Product ID
My company purchased several licenses of Office 2004 a year ago and sadly some former employees absconded with the install discs for each of them. Thankfully I do save all product numbers and serials within a database. Now that it's hardware upgrade season, I can at least copy the Office folder between the one of the unused old machines and get the new computers up and running. But the problem is that Microsoft checks product IDs to prevent piracy. Thankfully you can enter a new product ID by deleting the old one. From Terminal use the following commands:
cd /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2004/OfficeOnce removed, Office will launch the setup wizard allowing you to enter the appropriate product ID. Once the new equipment is rolled out and the old stuff decommissioned, the old machines' product numbers won't interfere with the new computers.
rm OfficePID
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