Deactivate Microsoft Office before clean install?

[bmac89]

Hello,

I am thinking of doing a clean install on my imac. However when I wipe the hard drive and reinstall OSX and apps I will need to re-activate Microsoft Office. Won't doing this mean I lose 1 of my licenses for Office as it will still think it is registered to a computer.

Is it possible to deactivate it before wiping the hard drive and then reactivate it to avoid this? If so how?

Thanks

P.S. It is Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac.

 

[definitive]

As far as I know, there's no way of doing it. If you're doing the reinstall on the same computer, then it shouldn't present a problem.

 

[bmac89]

As far as I know, there's no way of doing it. If you're doing the reinstall on the same computer, then it shouldn't present a problem.

Thanks for the reply. So if that is the case it must match the product key with the computers serial number?