New Computer - Transfer of Software

AuntyJean

My OH treated me to a new PC for Christmas which is being delivered Thursday.

When I bought my 'old' PC it was a Gateway machine and had MS Office 2000 standard installed. I bought the upgrade to MS Office 2000 professional (was £250 5 years ago!).

Am I able to transfer the MS Office 2000 standard to my new PC and then install the upgrade - I do not have the standard discs as it was already installed on my PC and I don't see why I should have to pay for it again!

intel

I expect your new PC will come with MS Works its a stripped down version of Office
and its prettey impossible to transfer one program to another PC as there would be a lot of linked dll files and the like that wont get transferred.


http://www.openoffice.org/ free alternative to office.

AuntyJean

Thanks, it will have MS Works basic installed but I have paid extra for 'transfer my pc' software and cables to transfer everything across.

I thought that MS may have supplied me with discs if I asked them nicely?

Jean

intel

AuntyJean wrote:

Thanks, it will have MS Works basic installed but I have paid extra for 'transfer my pc' software and cables to transfer everything across.

Well if you transfer the lot over that will work but you might aswell
have saved some cash and put the old drive in from the old PC and had as a slave drive... i.e second HDD in the PC

AuntyJean wrote:

I thought that MS may have supplied me with discs if I asked them nicely?
Jean

That will never be a reality....

tigermatt

If you were to copy the entire contents of the old hard drive directly onto the new drive (not in Windows - would have to get some software like Norton Ghost and do it in DOS) then you would still be able to run office. You can't copy it over because as intel said, there are lots of linked dll files that aren't in the main Office folder on your PC.

Trouble with copy old drive to new drive is you will have a major problem regarding drivers for the new PC etc.

Your easiest option would be to stay with Works - even though you bought the upgrade.

AuntyJean

I have large Excel spreadsheets. Will they transfer to Works?

Chippy_Minton

It depends on the worksheet, since Works doesn't support all Excel's functionality.

See Works: Limitations of Sharing Files with Excel and Works: Spreadsheet Functions Imported from Excel 2000 to Works.

Also, I think if you have a workbook with multiple worksheets, each worksheet is opened separately and any references between them don't work.

intel

They should do depending on how they were saved as some formats are not supported by Works... they should also open in Open Office which is free and very good.

tigermatt

It depends how you saved them and what functionality you have used within them. Works' built-in spreadsheet tool doesn't support all the advanced features like Excel, but it can do basic stuff such as adding up, working out etc.

Try OpenOffice as intel suggested in post 2 as this is a good (and free! ) alternative which works well.

AuntyJean

I have just found that I do have the original discs - MS Office 2000 Premium (and of course the upgrade discs to Professional).

These are registered on my current PC for updates. Do I need to unregister them and re-register on my new PC?