Office 2010 with Acer Aspire

littleredhen

I had purchased Office 2010 for a laptop and successfully loaded the disc with product key etc - i have now bought an acer aspire but as it doesn't have a disc drive i presume i can't load office 2010 onto it - when i entered the product key it said it was incorrect anyway???
everytime someone sends an attachment these days it seems to be an office 2010 one that i can't open - anyone help please?

Peter999_2

Hi,

Have you got a USB key?

Put the disc in the laptop with a disc drive in it. Copy all the files from the disc onto your USB key.

Put the USB key into your new laptop and run the install from there.

Before you do this, completely remove Office (if there is a trial version on there) from the new PC.

When you bought Office 2010 was it a 3 licence version or just 1 licence (usually when you buy the home version it is 3 licence but a business version is usually 1 licence).

Hope this helps.

macman

Copy it to a flash drive and install it from that. Or borrow an external USB DVD drive.
However unless you have a multiple licence for Office then you wil not be able to use it on more than one device.
If so, Libre Office or Open Office are free alternatives to MS Office that will do the job just as well, anc can both read and save in Office file formats.

littleredhen

thanks both, to be honest it was my husband who brought the disc home with the product key written down - i have installed it on two laptops - my husband has now left us and although we are still speaking (just!) i dont want to ask him - so do you think that i have used up my licence then

macman

They are normally single or 3-licence editions-what does it say on the DVD?
No way anyone can tell you that, if you're up to the limit then it won't activate.
If so install Libre Office.

littleredhen

macman which would you say is best then libre or open

littleredhen

thanks - can't see anything on the disc

macman

littleredhen wrote: »

macman which would you say is best then libre or open

Libre would be my choice.

WhiteChristmas

There isn't much difference between Libre and Open at the moment, but long-term support and further development for Open Office is unlikely; go to Libre.

BUT, it's very "old fashioned" if you're used to Office 2010; it's more like the old Office 2003 interface.

littleredhen

just tried to download it but i don't really understand it and it isn't working - i am getting so frustrated - i used to leave these things to oh and i want to be able to do them for myself!!! grrr!

macman

Have you downloaded it, saved it to the programs folder and run the installer? You need to give more info, not just 'not working'. Error messages?