how to install office 2003 without a CD

[ls]

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]

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.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

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.

 

[Earle Horton]

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

 

[Peter Foldes]

Go to a friends house and copy the CD over to a Flash Drive and let her rip.

 

[LD55ZRA]

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!

hth


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[Gordon]

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]

Makes absolutely no sense, does it??

 

[Peter Foldes]

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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Makes absolutely no sense, does it??

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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!?

 

[Gordon]

Makes absolutely no sense, does it??

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

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

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]

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.

ROTFL!

 

[David Troxell - Encourager Software]

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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