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kafs
August 5th, 2005, 05:30 PM
Hi! am new to the forum, hope you can help. Have a Packard Bell computer with Office 2000 on it, it has floppy disk capacity but no rewriter on it. I want to transfer office across to my new E machine which is XP. Is there any way of doing this on the cheap without buying any software or pricey cables?:dizzy:
Miz
August 5th, 2005, 06:48 PM
If you mean you want to transfer Microsoft Office programs, no, there's no way to do that without having or buying Microsoft Office installation CDs.
Office contains a number of applications...Word, Excel, Outlook, etc...and each one writes data all over the drive as well as making numerous registry entries.
kafs
August 5th, 2005, 07:05 PM
Thankyou anyway - it was worth a try!! Have to fork out the £200 for the software I spose!
Miz
August 5th, 2005, 09:47 PM
There are alternatives to Microsoft's version of office applications.
602 PC Suite (http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/) is free for personal use and supports Microsoft file formats.
Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org/) is another free office suite that supports Microsoft file formats.
If you prefer Microsoft products, the various applications contained in the Office Suite can be purchased separately.