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Thunder_Mountai
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Jan 04, 2014

New computer has no optical drive, how to load Office 2003

Buying the wife a new laptop coming in a couple of weeks. Seems the newest ones don't have an optical drive. She uses Office 2003 for a few things and would like to have it on her new computer. Not wo...
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Thunder_Mountai
Explorer II
Jan 04, 2014
Mandalay Parr wrote:
Try it. See what happens.

Curious. Was an optical drive an option on the new computer?

Office 2003 may not play on the new OS. Can't remember but seems I had to upgrade to Office 2010 for Windows 7.


2003 Office is running on two of my Windows 7 computers now. Geek at Best Buy said it would play nice with Windows 8.

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