I'm decommissiong an old laptop and moving to a nwe one. I'm happy with
Offfice 2003 for now and don't want to throw the licence away with my old
machine. How do transfer Office to the new laptop from the old?
Thanks
Disclaimer: I am no licensing expert.
If you have a full licence for Office 2003 e.g. after buying a retail
copy, just install it on your new machine. Since you are
decomissioning the old machine there doesn't seem to be a doublel use
problem, as far as I can see. If you're selling the old machine you
should uninstall Office 2003 before selling the machine.
Of course you would need to copy across any documents that you want to
retain.
If you have an OEM copy of Office 2003 i.e. it was bundled with the
machine then likely/possibly the licence is tied to that one machine.
Look for any documentation that came with the machine - it ought to
explain whether it's a full or OEM copy and if it's an OEM copy what
the licensing conditions are.
Andrew Watt MVP.
