So we have loads of copies of Office x (and 2004). But no one knows what serial is on what mac. And you cant view what serial you have. And you cant change it… and we lost the list of who had what

So, we were going to delete and reinstall everyones copy, but it turns out you can get Office to ask for the serial by deleteing a load of stuff like this:


rm /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ X/Office/OfficePID
rm ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Carbon\ Registration\ Database
rm ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office\ Registration\ Cache\ X
rm ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Microsoft\ Office\ Settings\ \(10\)


This also works for 2004 – just change the paths accrodingly.