office 2010

So you have to ring them with proof of purchase, theres no MS download site to get the software installer and then an option to enter the registration key during installation ?

Any idea how to get the exact version of office of the PC before its rebuilt?

Are these the only 4 "office suites", or are there more:

Office Home and Business 2010
Office Home and Student 2010
Office Professional 2010
Office University 2010

Is there any free software or way/place to see the key in plain text ?

Or tool to dump ALL your liscence/registration keys to a file prior to rebuilding a PC?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/microsoft-office-2010-backup-FX101853122.aspx

After you click on download... you have to enter the key to continue.  

I'm guessing it will only let you download the version that is valid for that key.

The following can dump many keys... I don't know that it can necessarily dump ALL keys for all products... but it will work for most MS products:

http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/

Thanks

Are these the only 4 "office suites", or are there more:

Office Home and Business 2010
Office Home and Student 2010
Office Professional 2010
Office University 2010

Any idea how to get the exact version of office of the PC before its rebuilt?

SIW is a good utility which you can use to see what is installed and the License keys used. It also includes lots of other system information:

http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/siw_portable

Any idea how to get the exact version of office of the PC before its rebuilt?

SIW should show what is installed...

Ok, slightly off topic, but aside office suites and operating systems, what "types" of software on a PC typically have a registration/liscence key, when in the context of a home PC, not corporate.

Here is a list of office suites:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/

Note: some of these are categorized by

Retail
Volume licensing
Other

Where Other is mobile or Starter editions.

based on your eariler comments... I assumed that you are dealing with a retail license.

Are these the only 4 "office suites", or are there more:

Office Home and Business 2010
Office Home and Student 2010
Office Professional 2010
Office University 2010

I gave you a link to download a backup of office.   Did you try it?   Is it not working?  it should allow you to download the correct version for your key.

I am not clear on why you need to compile a list of all possible versions of office.

Here is a list of office suites:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/

any idea how to check office 2003 also for both liscence type and suite version?

Would OEM office liscence work if we had to do factory reset build post malware?

 If so what info/data would we need?

SIW should show you the versions you have installed, also if older.

Would OEM office liscence work if we had to do factory reset build post malware?

If you have the keys and the installation media, and you reinstall the OEM software to the same PC it was on originally, the licenses are fine.