ive recently bought microsoft office 2007 home and student which has 3 activation codes and microsoft office 2007 professional upgrade with 1 activation code so i can upgrade to get all the programs (a cheaper way to do it lol), ive installed it onto my computer and everythink is fine but ive later decided to swap from Windows XP to Windows 7, but im worried that when i try to install office home and student agen it will work but will the professtional upgrade package work agen meaning it only had 1 product key which was used up wen i had windows XP bare in mind ive done a clean install of windows 7 so my hard drive will be wiped. CAN ANYONE GIVE ANY ADVICE OR TELL ME WHAT TO DO IM SORRY CONFUSED AND I DONT WANT TO HAVE TO BUY ANOTHER UPGRADE THANK YOU

ASH

The Microsoft Office 2007 keys will be able to be used on Win 7.

They are not a one off use item...

Welcome to PC Help Forum Ash.

So long as you have proof of purchase, you should be fine if the upgrade process doesn't work for any reason. You will be able to contact MS.

You can transfer your files and settings from XP to Windows 7 with a handy MS tool - see this video (and the others in the series) for full guidance: Upgrading from XP to Windows 7 - Using Easy Transfer on Windows XP - Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 - butterscotch

ty for your help guys i didnt know what to do so i turned to pchelpforums even tho im a training i.t praticitioners looking at hardware and software elements even programming. soon to sort out microsoft certs with the college

so basically i copy the microsoft office program files onto e.g a memory stick and then copy back onto the computer once ive done to clean install of windows 7

Do you not have any installation disks?

You will need to install the programmes from scratch on Win 7 from the installation disks.

You can not drag the already installed Office from the Win XP Program Files folder to a flash drive, as you will be missing the necessary registry entries...

would it work if u created a back up file of the microsoft office 2007 program files and then restored it onto the windows 7 OP once it is installed?