Installing Microsoft Office

Terrysdelight

Hi


I've just bought a new Netbook for my son. It does not have a dvd/disc drive.


I want to install Microsoft office but I only have it on disc format. How can I do this?
Would I copy it on to a flash drive and then install from that?
If this is the case, how do I copy the disc?


Many thanks
Terrysdelight

Fightsback

Ah you bought one in the end, what did you buy ?

What version of office do you have ?

Some schools by the way offer free Office 365 as part of their deal with Microsoft, worth checking out with the school.

http://products.office.com/en-GB/student/office-in-education

gjchester

Terrysdelight wrote: »

I want to install Microsoft office but I only have it on disc format. How can I do this?
Would I copy it on to a flash drive and then install from that?
If this is the case, how do I copy the disc?

Just drag and drop the entire disk contents over, unlike OS disks it does not need to be bootable.


If you have Office 2013,, download the trial from Microsoft and put in your genuine key to save the copy to USB step..

Terrysdelight

Fightsback wrote: »

Ah you bought one in the end, what did you buy ?

What version of office do you have ?

Some schools by the way offer free Office 365 as part of their deal with Microsoft, worth checking out with the school.

http://products.office.com/en-GB/student/office-in-education

I got the one you recommended. I ordered it from Amazon - cost £5 more but it arrived yesterday.


Its Office 2013. I'm allowed to install it under a license for my own PC's.

Terrysdelight

gjchester wrote: »

Just drag and drop the entire disk contents over, unlike OS disks it does not need to be bootable.


If you have Office 2013,, download the trial from Microsoft and put in your genuine key to save the copy to USB step..

Excellent - thank you, I do have Office 2013 and the key :-)

Fightsback

gjchester wrote: »

Just drag and drop the entire disk contents over, unlike OS disks it does not need to be bootable.


If you have Office 2013,, download the trial from Microsoft and put in your genuine key to save the copy to USB step..

IIRC I think there are a couple of crucial hidden files on the CD that might have to be exposed so needs to turn on show hidden files.

Fightsback

Terrysdelight wrote: »

I got the one you recommended. I ordered it from Amazon - cost £5 more but it arrived yesterday.


Its Office 2013. I'm allowed to install it under a license for my own PC's.

At some point in the future you could change the HDD for a SSD (solid state drive) putting the old HDD into a case and using that as a back up drive. It's the best upgrade to do, a 120gb SSD can be had for about £50 plus a HDD case for £5.

See the points I made here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=68007196&postcount=10

pendragon_arther

Or for the sake of needing to use a dvd rom in the future you could buy an external usb one.

esuhl

If you have another PC with a CD/DVD drive, just share it on the network so the netbook can see (and install) it.

Esqui

If it's Office 2013, you should be able to go to Office.com and sign in to download (for all versions, I believe with the exception of ProPlus)