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Find CD Key for Office Mac v.x

I have many copies of Microsoft office mac v.x at my job. Many are conflicting with one another saying another user is running that office application. I need to know if I can retrieve the CD key from office mac so I can reassign the users and organize all the copies we have.

idarmadi

Michael,

Each user has to have their unique Office CD-KEY. The master PID (an encoding of the CD-KEY code for the mac) is stored in the invisible file in /Applications/Microsoft Office X/Office/OfficePID.

Also check out and remove these files : 'Carbon registration Database', 'Microsoft Office Settings', and 'Office Registration Cache X' located in ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft.

If that won't work, then you have to use program called Remove Office (in Microsoft Office X CD) to remove the office, and then reinstall it again. It will ask you to input a serial number.

Good luck.

michaelcarandang

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Thanks idarmadi,

I found that invisible file. Is there any way to view this file and read the encoded CD Key. The issue I am having is that before I arrived to my job Office MAC was just randomly installed. I have all the CD's and there corresponding CD Key. I just want to compare what machine has what copy installed and reorganize and eliminate duplicate installations and possibly purchase more Office MAC CD's. I would greatly appreciate it you or someone else can assist me in decoding the CD Key if at all possible.

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