Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out

Activating a New Installation of Visio 2007

After you install Visio 2007, you must activate it within the first 25 starts of the program. Activation is a method for ensuring that you’ve installed a certified Microsoft product, not an illegal copy, in accordance with the software license. When you activate Visio 2007, you can also register the product, but you don’t have to. Microsoft prefers that you register your copy of Visio 2007, but, in fact, the only information you need to provide when you activate Visio 2007 is your country or region.

The Microsoft Office Activation Wizard starts automatically the first time you run Visio 2007. To activate Visio 2007, follow the instructions in the wizard.

The wizard generates a hardware identification ...