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ls

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Apr 10, 2010, 8:57:01 AM4/10/10
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I have the CD for Office 2003 and have just bought a mini laptop which
doesn't have a CD drive. Is there any way I can install my copy of Office
without the CD?

Michael

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Apr 10, 2010, 9:12:17 AM4/10/10
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"ls" <l...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have the CD for Office 2003 and have just bought a mini laptop which
> doesn't have a CD drive. Is there any way I can install my copy of Office
> without the CD?

Buy an external CD drive or use someone else's CD drive and copy the files
on the disk to a thumb drive. Then you can install Office from there.
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JoAnn Paules

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Apr 10, 2010, 10:30:06 AM4/10/10
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I have to ask: If you know that it doesn't have an optical drive, why didn't
you buy an external one when you bought the netbook? I'm not being
sarcastic. I've seen many people ask the same thing you have and I can't
imagine why they didn't invest a few extra dollars in an external drive for
installing software.

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Earle Horton

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Apr 10, 2010, 11:20:20 AM4/10/10
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In addition to what others have said, you can also pop the Office 2003 CD
into your desktop CD drive, and share it on your LAN from there, assuming of
course that you have a desktop and a LAN.

Earle

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Peter Foldes

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Apr 10, 2010, 3:45:22 PM4/10/10
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Go to a friends house and copy the CD over to a Flash Drive and let her rip.

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LD55ZRA

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Apr 10, 2010, 3:57:21 PM4/10/10
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JoAnn Paules wrote:
>
> I have to ask: If you know that it doesn't have an optical drive, why didn't
> you buy an external one when you bought the netbook? I'm not being
> sarcastic. I've seen many people ask the same thing you have and I can't
> imagine why they didn't invest a few extra dollars in an external drive for
> installing software.
>

It could be that people don't go to the shop with a check list (or
a shopping list) so that they can remember what to look for in a
new system. Not all are as experienced as you are baby!

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Apr 10, 2010, 4:29:40 PM4/10/10
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"JoAnn Paules" <jl_p...@hotnospammail.com> wrote in message
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> I have to ask: If you know that it doesn't have an optical drive, why
> didn't you buy an external one when you bought the netbook? I'm not being
> sarcastic. I've seen many people ask the same thing you have and I can't
> imagine why they didn't invest a few extra dollars in an external drive
> for installing software.
>

And not just that - it's quite likely the vendor provided a Recovery DVD as
the method of returning to factory spec - I know my Toshiba Netbook came
with a Recovery DVD an no DVD drive!?

JoAnn Paules

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Apr 10, 2010, 6:56:17 PM4/10/10
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Makes absolutely no sense, does it??

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Peter Foldes

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Apr 10, 2010, 7:19:16 PM4/10/10
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That is because the OP probably has the new Netbook which comes without a CD\DVD
and not a Laptop(Notebook) that has a CD\DVD

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Gordon

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Apr 11, 2010, 2:13:05 AM4/11/10
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"JoAnn Paules" <jl_p...@hotnospammail.com> wrote in message
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> Makes absolutely no sense, does it??
>

It doesn't. Fortunately, my Netbook being Linux, I have the OS on a
thumbdrive... :-)

Steve Rindsberg

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Apr 11, 2010, 11:46:08 AM4/11/10
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In article <uMfzJEQ2...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, JoAnn Paules wrote:
> Makes absolutely no sense, does it??

At least you GOT a restore DVD. My netbook just included a program I
could use to burn my own restore DVD/CDs.

Using the drive that the netbook doesn't have.

I think it's some kind of weird Zen computing exercise, cricket.

Gordon

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Apr 11, 2010, 12:35:06 PM4/11/10
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ROTFL!

David Troxell - Encourager Software

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Apr 11, 2010, 2:31:29 PM4/11/10
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On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:46:08 -0400, Steve Rindsberg wrote:

> In article <uMfzJEQ2...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, JoAnn Paules wrote:
>> Makes absolutely no sense, does it??
>
> At least you GOT a restore DVD. My netbook just included a program I
> could use to burn my own restore DVD/CDs.

That is fairly typical from a number of MFGs for desktops, laptops, etc -
program to burn your own restore DVD/CDs. We live in the age of downloads,
and paying extra for a DVD/CD backup.

David

>
> Using the drive that the netbook doesn't have.
>
> I think it's some kind of weird Zen computing exercise, cricket.


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