Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage

Users of Microsoft Office have validation tools similar to that of Microsoft Windows. If you are a Microsoft Office user, you can follow these steps to make sure your copy is genuine.

In my "Tools for Windows Genuine Advantage" article, I showed some tools that are available for validation issues in Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Office users can also validate their software to make sure it is a legitimate copy by running the Office Validation Assistant on the Microsoft Office "How to Tell" site. Not having a legitimate copy of Office XP or 2003 and above means that among other things, eventually the Save commands will no longer work, effectively making Office useless.

For a refresher on what "validation" means, check out my article, "Microsoft Registration, Activation and Validation Explained".

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