Can I transfer microsoft word from desk top to netbook?

AceRider

How big is your pen drive ?
I'm not sure with a microsoft CD, but you may be able to send all the contents of the cd to a folder (on the desktop for example) put that folder on your pen drive - transfer that folder to the netbook and instal from there.

FloFlo

AceRider wrote: »

How big is your pen drive ?
I'm not sure with a microsoft CD, but you may be able to send all the contents of the cd to a folder (on the desktop for example) put that folder on your pen drive - transfer that folder to the netbook and instal from there.

4gb but not sure if it would work.

FloFlo

macman wrote: »

If the Word docs are resaved as .rtf's, they should be fine when opened in Open Office.
Netbook should run MS Ofice just fine.

Prob is when I put in the pen drive and click on the docs it shows them as wordpad docs - which they aren't and never have been.

Jaffa.

FloFlo wrote: »

Prob is when I put in the pen drive and click on the docs it shows them as wordpad docs - which they aren't and never have been.

Thats because you don't have Microsoft Office installed on the Netbook, right?

AceRider

FloFlo wrote: »

4gb but not sure if it would work.

Well I can promise you for CD's it does work. I had to do this a while ago as I was putting a game on my desktop for the kids and had no ROM drive at the time, the game installed fine and works perfectly.

My only concern is that with it being a microsoft cd they may have something to stop you doing this (some form of anti-piracy).
I would advise you try this first before you start spending money on anything - if it doesn't work then you've lost nothing but if does work you've saved buying something you'll need maybe once.

FloFlo

Jaffa. wrote: »

Thats because you don't have Microsoft Office installed on the Netbook, right?

I thought they would still be listed as .doc though

I'm pc tech illiterate lol.:p

Lum

AceRider wrote: »

My only concern is that with it being a microsoft cd they may have something to stop you doing this (some form of anti-piracy).

Actually, Microsoft CDs are pretty lenient when it comes to this sort of thing. You can copy them to a CDR, copy them to a network share, copy them to USB. They don't care.

MS have put all their anti piracy efforts into product keys and online (or telephone) activation, not into making their CDs difficult to install. It makes sense when you think about it since a big corporation isn't going to store a separate office CD for each of their workstations. They just buy one CD and 5000 licenses.

I just wish the same were true of a lot of other software, particularly games.

Money_Grabber13579

FloFlo wrote: »

I thought they would still be listed as .doc though

I'm pc tech illiterate lol.:p

What you need to do is right click the documents and select "open with." Then select works word processor, which it seems that you have and tick the box to say always use this program to open these files.

The problem has occurred because wordpad is your default word processor and you have to change that by taking the above steps.

FloFlo

Money_Grabber13579 wrote: »

What you need to do is right click the documents and select "open with." Then select works word processor, which it seems that you have and tick the box to say always use this program to open these files.

The problem has occurred because wordpad is your default word processor and you have to change that by taking the above steps.

Have done this and they still open jumbled with works word.

macman

That's because MS Works and MS Word are not the same program. Resave your docs as RTF files and then reopen in Works.