You will be prompted to activate your software when its restarted." Close and restart all open Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 applications to allow setup changes to take effect. Okay, here's what frustrates me: I have entered the Product Key Number, like, a bazillion times! I click okay, then Install, it says "Configuring", then is says "Microsoft Office Home and Student Trial configuration has completed successfully. I have the product key, so clicked the first one. That takes me to Enter Product Key, or Buy Product Key Online. Click OK, and then close the dialogue boxes to continue." SO, when I go into Word, it says: "The command cannot be performed because a dialogue box is open. I have the same problem as a few other people here. If this does not solve your problem, please e-mail me at with contact details as Microsoft are keen to get further information to investigate the problem and resolve it. That is it - you should now be able to modify the text without any problems.Ensure the developer toolbar is displayed and click in the document where the text is and then press the Group button in the toolbar and press the Ungroup option as below.
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The text explaining how to do this can be found at, however to explain a bit more, here are a few pictures and words. I was contacted by Gerald who had this problem and after a bit of research I found the answer.