I have an XP machine with Office 2007 installed. I just loaded Win7 in a new
partition and plan to install same copy of Office in the new partition (I am
led to believe this is OK and doable).

Question: I have two office 2007 DVDs; how do I figure out which one I
previously installed on this machine? I can get Product ID from registry,
but I cannot find a way to match the Product ID to anything (like the Product
Key) on the box. Dave

If the DVDs are otherwise identical (both are retail versions of Office
2007 Professional, for example) then it doesn't matter which DVD you
use.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q



"dlandsman" <dlandsman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5842A667-63C3-4072-9DCE-1892805ECB4A@microsoft.com:

> I have an XP machine with Office 2007 installed. I just loaded Win7 in a new
> partition and plan to install same copy of Office in the new partition (I am
> led to believe this is OK and doable).
>
> Question: I have two office 2007 DVDs; how do I figure out which one I
> previously installed on this machine? I can get Product ID from registry,
> but I cannot find a way to match the Product ID to anything (like the Product
> Key) on the box. Dave

Thx. By the way, right after I posted my question, I found a related thread
and a guy named "garfield-n-odie" had a great suggestion about a tool from
www.belarc.com. It does a profile of your system and, among many other cool
things, retreives product keys!! So I got it anyway.

Another question while I am at it: Do you know precisely what will happen
regarding registration when load the (already loaded on XP) copy of Office
2007 onto my new Win7 partition? Will it complain? Will it just register
like normal? Dave

"Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:

> If the DVDs are otherwise identical (both are retail versions of Office
> 2007 Professional, for example) then it doesn't matter which DVD you
> use.
>
> --
> -Ben-
> Ben M. Schorr, MVP
> Roland Schorr & Tower
> http://www.rolandschorr.com
> http://www.officeforlawyers.com
> Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
> http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q
>
>
>
> "dlandsman" <dlandsman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5842A667-63C3-4072-9DCE-1892805ECB4A@microsoft.com:
>
> > I have an XP machine with Office 2007 installed. I just loaded Win7 in a new
> > partition and plan to install same copy of Office in the new partition (I am
> > led to believe this is OK and doable).
> >
> > Question: I have two office 2007 DVDs; how do I figure out which one I
> > previously installed on this machine? I can get Product ID from registry,
> > but I cannot find a way to match the Product ID to anything (like the Product
> > Key) on the box. Dave
>
>

In my experience it's a coin-toss. Sometimes it will activate just
fine. Othertimes it will complain that product key is already
installed. If you call the phone activation line (it will provide the
number) you can explain that you've rebuilt your machine with a new OS
and you're reinstalling the product. They'll probably give you a new
key to use.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q



"dlandsman" <dlandsman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8CF0BC74-7AC6-446A-8E36-C2F6001A8BFC@microsoft.com:

> Thx. By the way, right after I posted my question, I found a related thread
> and a guy named "garfield-n-odie" had a great suggestion about a tool from
> www.belarc.com. It does a profile of your system and, among many other cool
> things, retreives product keys!! So I got it anyway.
>
> Another question while I am at it: Do you know precisely what will happen
> regarding registration when load the (already loaded on XP) copy of Office
> 2007 onto my new Win7 partition? Will it complain? Will it just register
> like normal? Dave
>
> "Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:
>
>
> > If the DVDs are otherwise identical (both are retail versions of Office
> > 2007 Professional, for example) then it doesn't matter which DVD you
> > use.
> >
> > --
> > -Ben-
> > Ben M. Schorr, MVP
> > Roland Schorr & Tower
> > http://www.rolandschorr.com
> > http://www.officeforlawyers.com
> > Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
> > http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q
> >
> >
> >
> > "dlandsman" <dlandsman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:5842A667-63C3-4072-9DCE-1892805ECB4A@microsoft.com:
> >
>
> > > I have an XP machine with Office 2007 installed. I just loaded Win7 in a new
> > > partition and plan to install same copy of Office in the new partition (I am
> > > led to believe this is OK and doable).
> > >
> > > Question: I have two office 2007 DVDs; how do I figure out which one I
> > > previously installed on this machine? I can get Product ID from registry,
> > > but I cannot find a way to match the Product ID to anything (like the Product
> > > Key) on the box. Dave
> >
>
> >

In my experience it's a coin-toss. Sometimes it will activate just
fine. Othertimes it will complain that product key is already
installed. If you call the phone activation line (it will provide the
number) you can explain that you've rebuilt your machine with a new OS
and you're reinstalling the product. They'll probably give you a new
key to use.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q



"dlandsman" <dlandsman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8CF0BC74-7AC6-446A-8E36-C2F6001A8BFC@microsoft.com:

> Thx. By the way, right after I posted my question, I found a related thread
> and a guy named "garfield-n-odie" had a great suggestion about a tool from
> www.belarc.com. It does a profile of your system and, among many other cool
> things, retreives product keys!! So I got it anyway.
>
> Another question while I am at it: Do you know precisely what will happen
> regarding registration when load the (already loaded on XP) copy of Office
> 2007 onto my new Win7 partition? Will it complain? Will it just register
> like normal? Dave
>
> "Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:
>
>
> > If the DVDs are otherwise identical (both are retail versions of Office
> > 2007 Professional, for example) then it doesn't matter which DVD you
> > use.
> >
> > --
> > -Ben-
> > Ben M. Schorr, MVP
> > Roland Schorr & Tower
> > http://www.rolandschorr.com
> > http://www.officeforlawyers.com
> > Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
> > http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q
> >
> >
> >
> > "dlandsman" <dlandsman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:5842A667-63C3-4072-9DCE-1892805ECB4A@microsoft.com:
> >
>
> > > I have an XP machine with Office 2007 installed. I just loaded Win7 in a new
> > > partition and plan to install same copy of Office in the new partition (I am
> > > led to believe this is OK and doable).
> > >
> > > Question: I have two office 2007 DVDs; how do I figure out which one I
> > > previously installed on this machine? I can get Product ID from registry,
> > > but I cannot find a way to match the Product ID to anything (like the Product
> > > Key) on the box. Dave
> >
>
> >

"dlandsman" <dlandsman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8CF0BC74-7AC6-446A-8E36-C2F6001A8BFC@microsoft.com...
> Thx. By the way, right after I posted my question, I found a related
> thread
> and a guy named "garfield-n-odie" had a great suggestion about a tool from
> www.belarc.com. It does a profile of your system and, among many other
> cool
> things, retreives product keys!! So I got it anyway.
>
> Another question while I am at it: Do you know precisely what will happen
> regarding registration when load the (already loaded on XP) copy of Office
> 2007 onto my new Win7 partition? Will it complain? Will it just register
> like normal? Dave
>
> "Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:
>
>> If the DVDs are otherwise identical (both are retail versions of Office
>> 2007 Professional, for example) then it doesn't matter which DVD you
>> use.
>>
>> --
>> -Ben-
>> Ben M. Schorr, MVP
>> Roland Schorr & Tower
>> http://www.rolandschorr.com
>> http://www.officeforlawyers.com
>> Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
>> http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q
>>
>>
>>
>> "dlandsman" <dlandsman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:5842A667-63C3-4072-9DCE-1892805ECB4A@microsoft.com:
>>
>> > I have an XP machine with Office 2007 installed. I just loaded Win7 in
>> > a new
>> > partition and plan to install same copy of Office in the new partition
>> > (I am
>> > led to believe this is OK and doable).
>> >
>> > Question: I have two office 2007 DVDs; how do I figure out which one I
>> > previously installed on this machine? I can get Product ID from
>> > registry,
>> > but I cannot find a way to match the Product ID to anything (like the
>> > Product
>> > Key) on the box. Dave
>>
>>

OEM would be a violation of the license agreement as it can only be
installed onto the original computer and only one install at a time.
Retail, as long as it isn't installed on two different computers presently
it should activate OK on the second partition (Win 7). You may have to use
telephone activation but that is also usually painless.