Installing Office 2003 on a mini notebook with no disk drive

[Senior needing help]

I just bought an Acer Aspire One notebook and cannot load Office 2003 since
there is no disk drive. What can I do. P.S. I only want to load Excel.
Many thanks,

 

[Alias]

I just bought an Acer Aspire One notebook and cannot load Office 2003 since
there is no disk drive. What can I do. P.S. I only want to load Excel.
Many thanks,

Buy an external optical drive? Does this acer have USB?

Alias

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

What type of disk drive? External drives are cheap.
message :I just bought an Acer Aspire One notebook and cannot load Office 2003 since
: there is no disk drive. What can I do. P.S. I only want to load Excel.
: Many thanks,
: --
: Malley

 

[Senior needing help]

Hi Alias,
Thank you for your quick reply.
I'm not sure of what is an optical drive.
I suspect it's just an external drive.
Yes the Acer has 3 USB ports.
I guess I'll have to invest either in an external drive or purchase (for the
3rd time) Office Works. Evert time my wife and I upgrade our computers we use
up one of the MS Office licences.

 

[Senior needing help]

Hi Tom,
Thank you for your quick response.
I gather from Alias's reply, above, and your question, I'll need an external
drive.
I thought MS may have had a record of my registration of Office 2003 and I
could use the Product Key on the jewel case to access it off their site.

 

[Alias]

Hi Alias,
Thank you for your quick reply.
I'm not sure of what is an optical drive.
I suspect it's just an external drive.
Yes the Acer has 3 USB ports.
I guess I'll have to invest either in an external drive or purchase (for the
3rd time) Office Works. Evert time my wife and I upgrade our computers we use
up one of the MS Office licences.

You will need the Office CD. 2003 which is no longer sold by MS. You can
probably get a copy of Excel on Amazon.com. What I mean by optical drive
is a CD ROM, DVD ROM drive where you can put a CD or DVD into it and use it.

Upgrading, btw, will not void your license unless you mean by
"upgrading", buying a new computer and the Office license you had was
preinstalled on the old computer. If you have a retail license and CD,
you may install it on the new computer if you uninstall it from the old
and not fall from Microsoft's graces.

Alias