Re: Reinstall office on new disk

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From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 03/08/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 11:57:44 -0500

Miss Perspicacia Tick wrote:
> fishie wrote:
>> A friend of mine got a new hard disk and the old one was configured
>> at drive D: with its contents still intact, including Office 97,
>> which came bundled with the computer when she bought it. She wants to
>> get Office running again, but doesn't have the CD - either it's lost
>> or the place that sold her the machine originally never gave her the
>> disk.
>> Is there any way to reactivate the installation without the CD?
>
>
> Two choices: -
>
> 1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their
> cloning tool

(Acronis TrueImage is swell stuff, btw)
>
> or
>
> 2) Buy Office again.

....and in addition, Office 97 is to Office 2003 as an Edsel is to a Ford
Explorer. Office 97 is ancient and is no longer supported. Your friend
should shell out the cash for Office 2003....if she had the CD, or could
image/clone, she could buy the upgrade version - however, it would be
impossible to use that if she then got a new computer & had no 'qualifying
media' to point the upgrade setup to. Of course, she can't run Office 2003
if she's not running Windows 2000 SP3 or WinXP as her desktop OS. Which I'd
recommend anyway.

>
> You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the
> disk and creates many thousands of registry entries.

Ayuh. One of the things I like about most Mac software is that you can just
copy the folder to the location of your choice upon whim. The Windows
registry sounded like a swell thing when I first started using it, but over
the years I have come to miss .ini files. :)

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