transferring ms office to new computer

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My company just got a special deal for us on MS Office which was $10. I bought it and put it on my computer, then a few days later accidentally smashed the screen. Since it's going to take me a while to get that screen fixed, I'm getting a new computer. Does anybody know how I would go about transferring the license to the new computer (it's a one install license)? I can't uninstall it from the old one or do anything to the old one at all because of the screen, can't see anything on it. Thanks!

As long as you don't have both computers, with it installed on both at the same time, connected to the Internet at once, I believe you should be fine in terms of licensing. Beware, though, that with your computer in the shop, they might turn it on and it might or might not be connected to the Internet, so you could fall in that trap.

I was able to do that with my Windows 7 Home Professional to Ultimate upgrade license key. The Windows 7 Home Professional laptop that upgrade was installed on was destroyed, but afterward I bought another laptop with Windows 7 Home Professional and was able to do the upgrade license key for that fine; it still works and runs Windows 7 Ultimate (which I like because it lets me change the system language to 日本語).

I'm actually going to try the repair myself (ho ho let's see how that goes). I'll try your idea and see if it works. Thanks.

PS cute kitty!

Don't sweat it.

Most licenses allow you X installs on machines you own (so many have desktops and laptops and use a package on each machine). Even then, if your PC is in the shop, having it on your replacement PC is acceptable....just remember to uninstall it when your regular PC comes back from the shop.

You guys were right, it took the key, no prob.

Why do people still buy Microsoft Office when they can get OpenOffice or LibreOffice for free, instead.

Because I need Access. THe open office database isn't as strong.

Point conceded.

depending on how many licences for pcs were included you may have to activate it over the phone .

One workaround that you can use, is find a spare monitor. Hook it up to the computer, boot it, and uninstall MS Office. --It will take about 10 minutes tops to do this.

+1

The former is not only free, but also open source, which makes it generally better and more user friendly by default.

I'm having a similar issue. On my old computer, I had Office 2007 installed when I bought it (but didn't receive the installation disk). Without the installation disk, how can I transfer the license over, putting it on my new computer?

Do I just move the files and registry entries over? What happens if I miss a registry entry?

Charlie is so cute!

I downloaded office 2013 trial on to my new computer and plugged the key from the other computer in and it took it with no problem.

Since you have 2007, I don't know how you could do it though. One time a long time ago, I did buy something (I think it was called a mirror software). I had to take the hard drive out of my old laptop and then install software - I can't remember if I installed it on the new machine or the old hard drive, but it essentially turned my new hard drive into my old one so I didn't need to reactivate the programs. I can't remember what the program was but I bet there are several such programs around. You do have to have access to your old hd though, so if that's dead you are out of luck in that regard.