Microsoft Office

Jo4

A friend of mine has lost their Microsoft Office cd and instead of making a copy of the cd in the beginning, they copied the files from programs on the hard drive. Now they want Office on a different computer and the files they copied does not work and it tells them to run set up but apparently they cannot. Can anyone advise me what they should do or do they need to buy Office again?

BTW, they went into the hard drive, then programs then copied the Microsoft Office folder which was in there. Hope this makes sense.

alanclose

Jo4 wrote:

A friend of mine has lost their Microsoft Office cd and instead of making a copy of the cd in the beginning, they copied the files from programs on the hard drive. Now they want Office on a different computer and the files they copied does not work and it tells them to run set up but apparently they cannot. Can anyone advise me what they should do or do they need to buy Office again?

BTW, they went into the hard drive, then programs then copied the Microsoft Office folder which was in there. Hope this makes sense.

Sorry, this won't work, installation puts office files in a few places and makes registry entries, just copying the office folder to another pc won't work. If they have their original code they could try borrowing a disk

Jo4

alanclose wrote:

Sorry, this won't work, installation puts office files in a few places and makes registry entries, just copying the office folder to another pc won't work. If they have their original code they could try borrowing a disk

Don't think they have original code. Thanks for responding.

TheFaqqer

Have they tried talking to Micro$oft?

Sometimes strange things happen and they can help - there must be a way to derive the registration key from the installed version and then apply it to the new PC.

I'm sure that there are certain forums on the internet that would have "advice" on how / where to get a copy that could be used to install on a separate machine - they have paid for a licence, but they haven't got the original media to reinstall.

Faqqer

alanclose

Sorry, I can't think of any legal way they could install Office on their new PC then

alanclose

You have a point there, If the original user took the time to registered the product to themselves then Microsoft might help

Jo4

TheFaqqer wrote:

Have they tried talking to Micro$oft?

Sometimes strange things happen and they can help - there must be a way to derive the registration key from the installed version and then apply it to the new PC.

I'm sure that there are certain forums on the internet that would have "advice" on how / where to get a copy that could be used to install on a separate machine - they have paid for a licence, but they haven't got the original media to reinstall.

Faqqer

No they did not try talking to Microsoft.

bat999

Jo4
If your friend isn't able to install MS Office on the other PC then you could use Open Office.
It's very similar to MS Office and is compatible with MS documents.
It's a free download, this is the link:-http://www.openoffice.org/

Jo4

bat999 wrote:

Jo4
If your friend isn't able to install MS Office on the other PC then you could use Open Office.
It's very similar to MS Office and is compatible with MS documents.
It's a free download, this is the link:-http://www.openoffice.org/

In Microsoft Excel there is a drop down menu beside the autosum button which gives you average and other options, is this available in Open Office?

C_Ronaldo

is excel needed for college for example, i thought about using oppen office for a similar program to microsoft publisher but thats pointless for me as i have to use microsoft excel, powerpoint, access and word as the college use them too, its easier too

alanclose

I'm sure open office has an AVG function, it may not be exactly where excel's is though. Try here for open office tips.

If your friend is a student then they can get a greatly reduced student license

more detailed info on open office avg function