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Old 02-12-2007, 07:03 AM
JoAnn Paules
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Re: How best to move office to new computer without violating lice

Then just install it and when it comes time to install it on your new
computer, you will probably have to use the telephone activation option and
explain the situation to a human being.

BTW - what marketing efforts are you talking about?

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"susan dennis" <susandennis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EC32526B-DEB2-4610-9CA0-425724EFA658@microsoft.com...
> 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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