newmarket2 Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 I have Office 2003 on my current laptop. I just purchased a netbook and want to move office there. But, Office came on a CD and I don't have a reader on my Asus and do NOT want to buy an external one just for this.How can I do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beats Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Copy the Office files over via LAN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newmarket2 Posted September 30, 2009 Author Share Posted September 30, 2009 Copy the Office files over via LAN?Have you done this? I've always thought that this wouldn't work for any app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beats Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Yes, dozens of times. Just put the Office cdrom in a system with a drive, share it, and copy the files over to the netbook. Then start Office setup as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newmarket2 Posted September 30, 2009 Author Share Posted September 30, 2009 OK then. I'll give it a try. I've also heard about creating an .iso file from the disk and using that. You know about that approach? Doesn't sound necessary if your way works, but several people have done it this way....with MS Office specifically Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beats Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Creating an ISO works too, but it's an unneeded extra step. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newmarket2 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 Here's how I finally did it: I put the CD into a drive on a computer on my network. I made the optical drive sharable. From my new netbook, I used the network to get to the drive and ran setup.exe. It was like the drive was in the netbook. This was a lot faster than copying all the files from the disk to other media. Of course, you need a network with a pc with a drive.Thanks for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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