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Installing Microsoft Office

  • 20-01-2011 12:49am
    #1
    ko4jm6y9iwv2lc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 219 ✭✭


    I bought a netbook, but it doesn't have a CD/DVD drive. Therefore I can't install Microsoft Office as I have it on a disc.

    Is it possible to download Microsoft Office and just use the codes I have to activate once downloaded?


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  • #2
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    u could buy an external dvd drive or borrow one if you know anyone that has one.

    option 2 is to put your netbook on a network with a pc witha dvd drive.... then enable drive sharing on the pc and put the office disk in it. then map the shared dvd drive on your netbook and it will appear like a network drive... then install it from there.


  • #3
    Odaise Gaelach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Odaise Gaelach


    Alternatively you could use a friend's computer to copy the CD onto a USB key and install it on your own laptop using that.


  • #4
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Odaise Gaelach wrote: »
    Alternatively you could use a friend's computer to copy the CD onto a USB key and install it on your own laptop using that.

    office 2010 is fussy about installing from a usb dongle.


  • #5
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Is there any way you could convert an office disk to an iso. Put on a key. Then mount so your machine see's it as a disk drive?


  • #6
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    office 2010 is fussy about installing from a usb dongle.

    not really. ive done it about 100 times over the last few months. never had a single problem with it.


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  • #7
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Is there any way you could convert an office disk to an iso. Put on a key. Then mount so your machine see's it as a disk drive?

    yes. plenty of programs that will make an iso file from the cd.

    then download and install deamon tools lite (free version)

    and it will create a virtual dvd drive. then simply load the iso you created of the office cd into the virtual dvd drive, and it will be as if you put the cd into a dvd drive on the netbook.


  • #8
    livEwirE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭livEwirE


    Install imgburn from www.imgburn.com, create an ISO image from the office 2010 disk, mount the image with daemon tools lite or virtual clone drive and run the installation - JOB DONE.


  • #9
    norbert64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭norbert64


    The usb key route might also work if you simply copy and paste the raw disc contents onto your netbook HDD.

    Otherwise, you can definitely download some trial office suites from M$.
    Office 2010 is there, not too sure whether they still do the 2007 trial though.


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