Loading MS Office on a laptop with no CD Drive

Andy B

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I'm trying to help my old dad sort out a new PC - his old one has gone pop! This is a bit like the blind leading the blind, but he's decided a laptop would be better and he's found one in his budget but it doesn't have a cd drive.

This doesn't seem to worry him (or me) apart from the fact that neither of us are clear how we try and reload MS Office onto the new PC. He doesn't want to upgrade to a newer version of Office - at 85 he's too old to start learning how to use a new version when the old one is quite adequate. I'm also assuming that when he explains his old PC has gone pop the nice people at Microsoft will let him use his old version.

I guess the question is simple. Can he download Office from the web and then just use his licence/certification code to register it when hes ready to activate it?
 
You'll need to copy the install CD to a USB stick or use an external USB CD drive. If you have a shared/network drive you could copy the install disk on to this from a PC with a CD drive.
Microsoft don't do web downloads of install files for Office versions prior to the current Office 365 version.
Depending on what version your old office is, if it has been activated on the old PC you will have to contact Microsoft (good luck with that) in order to activate it on a new PC.
 
External CD drive via usb if you still have installation disc. As low as a tenner from Amazon.
 
I've been looking at the portable CD drives on tinterweb and can't work out if I've spotted a glitch in the master plan! I've not seen any that say they work with Windows 8.

Am I right in thinking that when W8 was issued there was something about it not coming with the software to run a CD/DVD drive?:blast
 


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