MS Office 2007 Disk To Laptop Without Optical Drive?

[WSB]

Hi,

I have an old MS Office 2007 disk which I have in the past used to install on a PC with Win10 using the optical drive.

I now have a laptop without optical drive.

Other than buying an external optical drive to plug in, is there any way I can either copy this disk to a USB and transfer that way?

Or better still, use the Product Key to download it online?

Many Thanks!!!

 

[IT Minion]

If you've got another computer with an optical drive then you might be able to install over a network. I've done that in the past.

The difficulty with installing with a different, downloaded, copy of office can be that slightly different versions have different keys so it can be a lot more trouble than it should be.

 

[mattylad]

You would be better finding the installation online, AFAIK it will still be available somewhere

 

[Astra99]

Try copying the entire contents of the MS Office CD to a clean, formatted USB drive (on another machine with an optical drive) and, on your laptop, run Setup from the USB stick.

 

[rossj81]

You would be better finding the installation online, AFAIK it will still be available somewhere

I wouldn't download it online. Microsoft doesn't provide copies of old software online because they want you to upgrade. You could always look for a torrent, but there's about 95% chance the torrent will include malware.

 

[empip]

The external usb cd/dvd read/writer is probably your best bet less than £20 on Amazon.

Failing that try this next ploy - I reckon I would try this - never have due to cheapness of cd/dvd kit.
https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-load-microsoft-office-from-a-flash-drive
Essentially just copy the files from the CD to the flash drive.
Follow step 8 for the installation - fingers crossed.

As Astra99 suggested 2 posts previously.
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[ericmark]

I copied office onto a hard drive years ago and I am not even sure where the original disks are, never had a problem installing just plugged in external hard drive and clicked on install icon.

 

[Hyper88]

I recently downloaded Home Office 2016 from Microsoft web site. It was a .img file. When I clicked on it, I was presented with a virtual DVD drive.

You could try creating .iso or .img image of your installation disk and then transferring via USB stick. It is a good way of backing up your CD or DVD software, so they can be mounted on diskless laptops.