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Old 02-11-2007, 10:02 PM
susan dennis
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Re: How best to move office to new computer without violating lice

I'm so sorry. I didn't mean beta... I mean trial.

I have already bought the program, I don't want to have to deal with
Microsoft's marketing efforts (which are very understandable since my
installing a trial assumes I am an interested potential customer -
understandable but annoying).

"susan dennis" wrote:

> I have a retail version. I would like to know how to move it from one
> computer to another. It may well be a PITA to you, but, honestly, jumping
> through the hoops of using a Microsoft beta is a major PITA to me. And even
> it is it a PITA, I'd still like to know how to do it.
>
> "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > If it's a retail version you can but installing it and uninstalling it in
> > less than a month seems like a royal PITA to me. That's why I offered
> > another option.
> >
> > --
> >
> > JoAnn Paules
> > MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
> >
> > ~~~~~
> > How to ask a question
> > http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "susan dennis" <susandennis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:72867DD7-B210-4DF3-B990-36495E56D355@microsoft.com...
> > > I'd really rather not but if that's the only way to do it then I guess
> > > that's
> > > what I'll do.
> > >
> > > So once you install Office 2007 on one computer you can never move it to
> > > another?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:
> > >
> > >> I have to ask, since you're talking about just one month, why not just
> > >> download the trial on the old system and when you get the new computer,
> > >> install the full version on that.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>
> > >> JoAnn Paules
> > >> MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
> > >>
> > >> ~~~~~
> > >> How to ask a question
> > >> http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> "susan dennis" <susan dennis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > >> news:58FBF942-5BEB-495E-BD3C-CB9D136C1E81@microsoft.com...
> > >> >I want to install Office 2007 on my old computer. I will be getting a
> > >> >new
> > >> > (replacement) computer in a month. I will want to move Office to the
> > >> > new
> > >> > computer. How can I move Office 2007 from the old computer to the new
> > >> > one
> > >> > without making the licensing stuff twitchy? (I'm guessing that I can
> > >> > save
> > >> > mail and move it in pst or 2007 equivalent and I don't care about
> > >> > moving
> > >> > settings and stuff.)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>

> >
> >
> >

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Old 02-11-2007, 10:02 PM