MS Office 2003

the_flying_pig

Hello

I wondered if anyone could advise on something. I've read the main MSE article on Office software.

At work I use Office 2010 but at home have been happily using Office 2003 for quite a long time.

My PC recently went to get repaired [luckily it was under warranty], one of the things they did was restore it to factory settings, which means that one has to re-install software such as Office.

I bought my copy of Office 2003 quite a long time ago. I still have the disk but it won't reload onto my PC for some reason. The problem seems to be a scratch or something on the disk - I'm sure that my disk allows me to re-install it on a fair number of machines.

I do have Open Office and it's fine for most uses but doesn't always give you 100% perfect formatting.

I suppose I'm asking:

1 - if it's possible to buy Office 2003 anywhere, preferably on the cheap;
2 - whether I'd be complying with Microsoft's terms of use if I installed it on my machine if I bought or borrowed a disk second-hand.

I specify 2003 because: (a) morally I think I 'deserve' to have a copy without paying [much]; and (b) I narrowly prefer it to newer versions, I'm more familiar with keyboard shortcuts etc.

Cheers

Thanks

m5rcc

Plenty of ISOs on the net if you have a genuine key otherwise call Microsoft and they may be able to provide an ISO to download

the_flying_pig

Thanks for the tip. I do have a key but am not sure if I've used it on too many machines now.

I'll see what I can find.