Andy

Unfortunately you were told wrong. This group is for the XP Operating System and hour's is a issue with Office and as such should be posted there. Below is the link where you should post this. Good Luck

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"Andy" <Andy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:36A03D6D-0C79-46D9-9846-E1E88F274040@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have an activated Office 2007 Ultimate which seems fine in every way
> EXCEPT when I try to pull down an Excel 2003 "MSN Stock Quote" macro
> (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en)
> which fails re-validation of Office 2007 with "Microsoft Office Ultimate
> 2007: Product Not Activated." I was instructed by "Lori MS" in the Office
> Genuine Advantage forum to delete the file C:\Documents and Settings\All
> Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Data\data.dat to cause it to
> re-activate. I didn't have a data.dat file in that directory but did have an
> opa12.dat which I renamed and it seemed to have desired effect of asking me
> to re-activate Office next time I fired up MS Word. And that re-activation
> went fine. HOWEVER, when I try to retrieve the macro from MS site, same
> problem. Still says "Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007: Product Not Activated."
>
> "Lori MS" advised if I still had Genuine Advantage problems, to post them
> here (and not in the "Office Genuine Advantage Validation Issues" group I
> originally posted to). I still have a problem in that MS Excel Macro Web
> site still refuses to validate my Office 2007 Ultimate installation properly
> (perhaps that Web site itself is broken in the way it verifies Office 2007
> activation??). For more details on my configuration, please see the original
> string at
> http://forums.microsoft.com/genuine/...8680&siteid=25.
>
> Thanks for any help with ongoing Office 2007 validation (detection) issues!
> Seems like validation bugs should not get in the way of getting value out of
> Microsoft products.
>
> -Andy
>