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GunJack

wongataa wrote: »

There is no need for a CD. Just have your daughter sign up and download the install file. She can then copy that install file onto a CD/USB stick and give it to you.

less likely to lose a CD with the key printed on the sleeve than you are a fil on some USB stick somewhere when you need to re-install

NiftyDigits

bod1467 wrote: »

With Office 2007 Enterprise Edition you didn't get a Custom Install option - at all.

Not true.... Perhaps you just missed it.

AndyPix

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jeallen01

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Not true.... Perhaps you just missed it.

That's what I thought, but could not be sure as it was quite a time ago that I installed O2007 on my wife's m/c.

NiftyDigits

jeallen01 wrote: »

When I bought Office 2007 via my (then) company's Enterprise agreement, I downloaded (but did not install) it to my hard-drive, together with the Product Key sent to me via email. Never loaded it on my PC but it installed quite happily on my wife's PC, and has been running fine for quite a few years. Nevertheless I should have taken the CD purchase option so that we always had that to fall back on.


So, when I bought Office 2010 that's what I did and it still runs fine - having been transferred from the 1st PC it was installed on to the current one.


PS: when you get Office via this route, you will (or at least you used to) get the full Enterprise edition - with Outlook, Excel, WORD, ACCESS, and a lot more - but be careful when you install it or you will get lots of stuff (like SharePoint and so on) that is not generally relevant to a personal user at home!

If you needed it earlier, it would have been easy enough to download en_office_enterprise_2007_DVD_VL_X12-19574.iso to go with your product key.
Obviously not necessary now.

bod1467

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Not true.... Perhaps you just missed it.

Must have been the specific version/installer I had ... there was absolutely NO way to customise the install. I did it enough times over the years to have been able to find it. I'm not exactly a novice with these things.

NiftyDigits

bod1467 wrote: »

Must have been the specific version/installer I had ... there was absolutely NO way to customise the install. I did it enough times over the years to have been able to find it. I'm not exactly a novice with these things.

Perhaps yours was the 'Blue Edition'.

The genuine image is here: http://filefactory. com/file/cef8502/en_office_enterprise_2007_DVD_VL_X12-19574.iso

Remove the space before com in order to download.

wongataa

GunJack wrote: »

less likely to lose a CD with the key printed on the sleeve than you are a fil on some USB stick somewhere when you need to re-install

Not an issue. Just keep the iso stored on a computer and backup. If you lose the CD just burn another one.