help please with microsoft word

surfsister

Hiya I bought one of the cheap little pink £100 laptops recommended on here earlier this year and it is great but whenever I use word it say enter the product key which I don't have. It says I can use it 25 times only then I have to enter the key.

I have a student word on my other computer and tried using this on this laptop but it wouldn't accept it.

Any ideas what is best to do?

Can I use my word for two laptops?? or not

or what is the cheapest word to get. Also will it really only let me use it 25 times?

Also it doesn't have a disc drive soi how can I use a new word disc?? Do i just put tin the product no??

thanks guys a bit foxed here!

NeverAgain_2

Download Open Office.

It's free, compatible with Word, and should have all the features you need.

http://www.openoffice.org/

surfsister

many thanks

John_Gray

LibreOffice is the logical suite to use now, since OpenOffice will soon not be maintained, I suspect.

And both products are mostly compatible with Microsoft Office (certainly Word and Excel), but not 100%. perhaps 95-99%

esuhl

Most (all?) Microsoft Office CDs are licensed to be used on a "main" computer and a "portable" one, if I remember rightly (not sure whether the student editions are exempt from this). It might be worth checking to see whether you have a spare licence that you can use to install Word on the netbook.

Generally speaking I'm not a big fan of Microsoft products, but Word and Excel are (in my opinion) worth having. There are too many bugs, incompatibilities and missing features in LibreOffice for me replace MS Office... Hopefully this will change, though!

spannerzone

As esuhl says, you can probably use your student Office program on the netbook legitimately - but the student edition code won't work on the preinstalled office software as it's a different version (Small business edition or such like on the netbook requires different licence code to the Student edition and / or one is 2007 and one is 2010)

So, uninstall the Office from netbook, install the Student edition, use the Student edition licence code and that should work on up to 3 computers.

Next question if it's a netbook - how do I install Office from CD to my netbook?

debitcardmayhem

spannerzone wrote: »

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Next question if it's a netbook - how do I install Office from CD to my netbook?

Same way as I did, copy cd(copy/paste) to usb (root folder) and install from there simples.

spannerzone

yeah that'll work otherwise if you've misplaced the install CD but have a legitimate Office 2007 Studen edition licence then download it from Microsoft here http://www.microsoft.com/office/backup2007/en-us/default.mspx

I had to recently do this for a friend who misplaced the CD but still had the licene sticker luckily.... you have to submit your licence code and select yes to "Did you buy your Office medialess license within 90 days of buying your PC?" but it allows you to download the Office 2007 Student and Home edition.

surfsister

thanks all great help as always!

surfsister

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Same way as I did, copy cd(copy/paste) to usb (root folder) and install from there simples.

now why didn't I think of that!!! thanks