Where on a computer hard drive would I find information identifying the exact
copy of MS office that had been installed? I need information which I can
match to the cd's.
I work in an office with many computers, each with their own licensed copies
of MS office. While on vacation, my computer failed and a blank one was
issued to me. I salvaged the old hard drive as it did not fail. I need to
identify the exact copy of office that was in the old computer.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

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"Greg" <Greg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3CD3766C-8C17-4561-A958-8DB2B7CC6EF5@microsoft.com...

Peter,
Thank you for the suggestion. I have a question I would like answered before
I install it.
Will this software identify software on the old hard drive? Having been
physically moved to the new computer, it is currently just sitting in the new
computer as a data drive (E. Nothing about it is known to the new computer,
which has a new hard drive, newly installed operating system and a small
amount of software loaded in a new hard drive (C.

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

Greg wrote:
booted from. If your old drive is still bootable (i.e. you didn't format
it), temporarily configure it as the master drive, boot from it, and
install/run Belarc.

Tim

I may be wrong but I think this tool, and the magic jelly bean tool, only
detects certain versions of office

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Every Office version except Office 2000

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