Microsoft Word woes

doolox

I have a relatively new laptop running Windows 10. I have got rid of Microsoft Office latest version because they are looking to charge me $69 per annum to use it and I cannot spare that kind of cash.

I have an old laptop running Windows Vista Home version Sp2 and Word 2007 along with other programs in the Microsoft Office suite.

Is it possible to copy over Winword.exe to my new machine and run it from my new machine under windows 10?

is there any installer program that can do this for me and set up the Windows10 system to do this?

I am using Open Office at the moment but I find it difficult to remember to save docs as "97-2003" format ( .doc) extension and cause confusion among my email recipients.

Any help would be appreciated.

homer911

No, its not possible

me_irl

If it's not an OEM version you might be able to... Just not by your method. It would have to be deactivated/uninstalled and installed on the new machine.

More information on this thread: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-office_install/how-do-i-transfer-office-2007-from-old-computer-to/9f88332e-c0ec-46f1-b4fb-41dcfe6849a6?auth=1

You could use office.com to create and edit files in a browser (online only, doesn't have the 'full features' as an installed version of office does).

You can check out LibreOffice (https://www.libreoffice.org/), I'm sure you can set office file format / .docx as the default filetype when saving.

Capt'n Midnight

In Libreoffice
Tools - Options - Load/Save

Document type = Text
Always save as