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From: magdalena on 12 Apr 2008 12:44
I just bought the Home & Student Edition of Office 2008. The install
tells me to enter my "25-character product key" which it supposedly
"located on both the back of the Office 2008 for Mac DVD sleeve and the
Install Guide." It's *not* in the Install Guide (but there is a form so
you can fill it in yourself when you eventually find it). The DVD sleeve
has a UPC code and two other numbers, none of which works when I type it
into the installation window. The top number has 22 characters and the
bottom one has 21. If you count hyphens, it's 26 and 24. If someone else
who has gone through this can help me, I would very much appreciate it!
From: Jolly Roger on 12 Apr 2008 13:20
In article
<magdalenabung-74788A.12445412042008(a)comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
magdalena <magdalenabung(a)comcast.net> wrote:

> I just bought the Home & Student Edition of Office 2008. The install
> tells me to enter my "25-character product key" which it supposedly
> "located on both the back of the Office 2008 for Mac DVD sleeve and the
> Install Guide." It's *not* in the Install Guide (but there is a form so
> you can fill it in yourself when you eventually find it). The DVD sleeve
> has a UPC code and two other numbers, none of which works when I type it
> into the installation window. The top number has 22 characters and the
> bottom one has 21. If you count hyphens, it's 26 and 24. If someone else
> who has gone through this can help me, I would very much appreciate it!

I took advantage of the free upgrade from "Office 2004 Student & Teacher
Edition" to "Office 2008 Special Media Edition". I just recieved my copy
last week, and the label on the DVD sleeve says "PRODUCT KEY:" in bold
letters, with a 25-character code just under that in this format:

HF3J8-HKNMG-FH84K-KE9N2-KBYEH

That is 25 characters, minus the dashes.

I've included the microsoft.public.mac.office news group in my reply so
that other users of Office 2008 may comment, but it sounds like your
best bet may be to call Microsoft directly.

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From: Jolly Roger on 12 Apr 2008 15:26
In article <jollyroger-7A581A.12200112042008(a)individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:

> I just recieved my copy
> last week, and the label on the DVD sleeve says "PRODUCT KEY:" in bold
> letters, with a 25-character code just under that in this format:
>
> HF3J8-HKNMG-FH84K-KE9N2-KBYEH

Just in case anyone was wondering, the code above is *not* an actual
code, but merely random letters and numbers generated by yours truly.

; )

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From: Jim Redelfs on 13 Apr 2008 00:54
In article
<magdalenabung-A802CD.13315612042008(a)comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
magdalena <magdalenabung(a)comcast.net> wrote:

> Duh!!!! I was looking on the orange cardboard DVD
> box thinking MS called that a sleeve

Don't be too hard on yourself. Remember: It's Microsoft. They are
well known to write their own rules, such as what is a "sleeve".

> Thanks!

Assuming it worked for you, you're welcome.

> (For the benefit of any other dumb dodos like me(!): The
> installer says to enter your "product ID"--but it should say "product
> key." Product ID is for registration, and it only has 20 characters.)

Hey! We're Mac users. We don need no steenkin' manuals!
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From: Clever Monkey on 14 Apr 2008 11:36
Jolly Roger wrote:
> In article <jollyroger-7A581A.12200112042008(a)individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> I just recieved my copy
>> last week, and the label on the DVD sleeve says "PRODUCT KEY:" in bold
>> letters, with a 25-character code just under that in this format:
>>
>> HF3J8-HKNMG-FH84K-KE9N2-KBYEH
>
> Just in case anyone was wondering, the code above is *not* an actual
> code, but merely random letters and numbers generated by yours truly.
>
Oddly enough, it works fine for the copy of Office I grabbed off
Bittorrent. You should go into the generating product key business.
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