Will I be able to reinstall Office?

[Big Pat]

My employer, the NHS, had a licensing agreement with Microsoft whereby for about £18, employees could purchase Office Enterprise 2007 for home use. The idea is that because you may work from home you could use your employer's license. This agreement ended earlier this year.

Now, I have various problems on my PC and I'm considering a complete reinstall of Windows. Question: If I do so and then try to reinstall Office, will my license number be rejected as invalid?

My gut feeling says No, because even though the small print says you can install it on only one PC, I tried installing it on my laptop too and it worked fine, so I'm *guessing* it doesn't have a problem with the same license number being used twice. But that was about two years ago and it's possible that the license number is technically no longer valid. As far as I know the end of the NHS agreement doesn't affect existing installations so the NHS doesn't have to strip Office out of every PC.

Will it see me as just reinstalling something I have a valid license for? Any other NHS employees out there with any experience of this?

Thanks,

 

[Minkey]

Without going into licensing you should be fine iirc Office does not require online registration is simply looks for a valid key which is on the sticker

 

[boblarson]

Minkey - Office does require validation of the key regardless of where it comes from now. So, it may not work.

 

[rainman89]

if you've installed it more than 3 times, id say that they might give you a hard time about it...

 

[boblarson]

if you've installed it more than 3 times, id say that they might give you a hard time about it...

Well, it still might get the hard time because this is an Enterprise key of which the approved use has changed.

 

[Minkey]

Minkey - Office does require validation of the key regardless of where it comes from now. So, it may not work.

Ah OK fair enough haven't used it since 2003.

 

[Big Pat]

Thanks for the replies guys. It sounds like - to be on the safe side - I should try and fix my PC via other routes, i.e. without reinstalling .