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Help! I just bought a new computer, and have had it less than three weeks.
It came with a 60 day trial version of 2007 Office. I cannot use Word starting today. It will only let me open files, and says the selection is locked. Does this mean my trial is up? It hasn't been 60 days! Also, I have Office 2003 on my old laptop which I will not be using anymore. Is there any way to just switch the Office programs from that computer to my new one? The new one is a netbook, so I don't have an optical drive. Can anyone help me? Thanks!! |
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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:38:03 -0700, Lyndsey
wrote: Help! I just bought a new computer, and have had it less than three weeks. It came with a 60 day trial version of 2007 Office. I cannot use Word starting today. It will only let me open files, and says the selection is locked. Does this mean my trial is up? It hasn't been 60 days! Also, I have Office 2003 on my old laptop which I will not be using anymore. Is there any way to just switch the Office programs from that computer to my new one? The new one is a netbook, so I don't have an optical drive. Can anyone help me? Thanks!! I can't tell you what the problem is with the trial of Office 2007, although I suspect that the computer vendor is to blame, and you can try complaining to them. If your Office 2003 is a retail (separately purchased) copy and not one that was bundled with the old computer (called an "OEM" version), then you can uninstall it from the old computer and install it on the new one. You'll need the installation disk and the product key that came with it; there's no way to simply move an installed copy of Office from one computer to the other. To work around the lack of an optical drive, there are a couple of methods: - If you have a network router and can connect the two computers through the network, you can share the optical drive of the old computer, map it on the new computer, and install across the network. - Alternatively, after mapping the optical drive, copy the entire contents of the disk to a folder (and subfolders) on the netbook's hard drive. Run the setup.exe program in that folder. - You can copy the entire contents of the disk to a USB stick, move the stick to the netbook, and start setup.exe from there. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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