Moving Word X to laptop

[KeithNealy]

I just bought an iBook and want to move Word X for Mac to it.
Unfortunately, even though I still have the CD and the proper code,
it's an upgrade CD and is looking for my earlier version. I still have
my Word 98 disk, but not the code for it, so I can't install it in
order to replace it with Word X.

How do I solve this? I'd be happy to mail the CD's to Microsoft to get
one that will just install without all the nonesense.

Keith Nealy

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Rumor has it (i.e., many people have reported) that you can point the
upgrade installer at the Word 98 CD, instead of installing it.

I think this may work better with the drag and drop installation, which
perhaps allows you to remove the CD?

Not sure whether it would accept a previous installation that you pointed
out on a mounted disk/over a local network.

 

[KeithNealy]

Thanks. You were absolutely right. Worked great.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Glad to help, thanks for the confirmation.