New Macbook - reinstalled and now only a trial version of ..

I bought a new macbook, well, new to me. Anyhow, it had office
installed on it & I have the registration key.

I reinstalled the laptop, so I could start fresh without all the
previous owners stuff on it. So now I have a trial version of Office
2004. How do I enter in my license key so that I have the full
version? I cant find anything anywhere! I see how to BUY IT, but I
dont think I should have to do that.

Any ideas?

Thank you - from a long time PC user, trying to make the switch

Another possibility I'm reading into your quandary:

If the previous owner legitimately owned a license to the Office software on
the system he should have either a) removed Office from the Mac before
transferring ownership if he intended to continue using that copy of the
product, or b) handed over the disks along with the Mac & the key. As you
can see, the key does you no good if you have to reinstall the software -
the software is on the disks. You can install from any copy of the same
version using your key, but you'll still be left in the same boat if
something similar occurs in the future.

Contact the other party for the disks or invest in a copy of Office to call
your own:)

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Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"Googler" <google.TakeThisOut@disneyzone.net> wrote in message
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>I bought a new macbook, well, new to me. Anyhow, it had office
> installed on it & I have the registration key.
>
> I reinstalled the laptop, so I could start fresh without all the
> previous owners stuff on it. So now I have a trial version of Office
> 2004. How do I enter in my license key so that I have the full
> version? I cant find anything anywhere! I see how to BUY IT, but I
> dont think I should have to do that.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you - from a long time PC user, trying to make the switch
>