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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
Gdetrailer wrote:
Generally you should be able to copy the entire install disc onto a external HD (place the disc contents in a folder on the drive). Then open the folder and run the install.

Same thing can be done with a USB flash drive if you have one with enough space.


This is what I was going to try first.

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