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17 years ago

My PC is incredibly old and shortly before retiring I bought a Notebook. It came with Office 2007 software to try for a period of time and download if you wanted it. I HATED it. My PC had been upgraded from Office 97 to Office 2003 via download from Microsoft. Unfortunately I have no way to transfer from my PC to my notebook. No cd burner or usb port on the PC and that's the only way to transfer data to the notebook. I had the cd's to load Office 97 to the notebook and can live with that if necessary but have been looking for a reasonably priced upgrade to 2003. I just am not sure which sites would be safe to download this software from and would appreciate any suggestions offered. Microsoft seems to be priced much higher with limited selection.

Thanks

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mikie_gw
17 years ago
Easiest way of course is to network the two computers with a switch or router depending on how you connect ... If of course you can use the program download that you have already paid for that is on your Desktop.

Or you maybe can, if it has an available, or possible temporary borrow a slot and put a wifi pci card in the desktop then its simple ad/hoc to wireless transfer anything ,,, online prices I often notice are in the $15 area for wifi pci cards.

Or try out openoffice.org ,, free alternate to the MS office group of many programs.
pris
Original Author
17 years ago
Thanks, Mikie
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