this came from one of our sod m8's sig. Sorry dont remember who's. Credit to him/her. http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/office2kserial.html Worth reading. Auto-insert your Office2k serial number Hate having to find your serial number every time you need to install something from your Office2k CD? How would you like it pre-filled in for you? Here's how: On your Office2k CD, there's a file named SETUP.INI. Open it, and look for the [Options] section. Modify it to look like this: [Options] ; If a value is present, the [Options] section gives the values of properties to apply to ; this installation. Specify them in the format: ; PropName=PropValue ; Remember to uncomment both the section name and the value names. ; USERNAME=Customer PIDKEY=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY Use your name for USERNAME, and of course your own serial number for PIDKEY. Make sure you uncomment [Options], USERNAME, and PIDKEY else they won't get read (you can leave USERNAME commented if you want, but you MUST have [Options] uncommented for the PIDKEY value to be read).