Purchased a copy of Office Home and Student 2007 when i bought my
Toshiba laptop.

Now bought a small Advent Notebook for my wife.

How do I get the Home Office onto the notebook ... no disc drive?

Need to download info but where and how?

ta
Jim.
ps I have the Authenticity details

i recon this might be an issue you'll come up with fairly regularly.
my mum has only of these tiny laptops and needed something put on it, my dad has a USB external hard disc, which sucessfuly worked with the laptop.

soooo, what about if you bought a small cheap usb cd drive? i'm sure you'd need it in the future

in saying that, the cheapest one i can find from my usual place is £56, which appeard to do everything (reader and writer in every format of cd & dvd) i'm sure they can be had

If you have access to a CD/DVD drive and a USB drive (big enough to fit the CD/DVD on) it's possible.

You need to copy the entire contents of the CD/DVD to the USB drive and put that into the notebook.

The USB drive should autorun, if not open it from 'my computer' and find setup/install.

That should work fine.

HTH

[Edited on 23/3/09 by RoadkillUK]

Could set up a network and share the cd over the network using the other laptops cd drive

but as said small USB HHD or a 4GB memory stick about £10 from ASDA

Just download a tril version from the MS website
www.microsoft.com/office activate with the key on the box.

Like the last suggestion the best .... I'll try this tonight.

Next option is the usb pen ... I've a 2Gb unit but may not be big enough.

I'll let you know how i get on.

2Gb should be enough.

Either USB stick or USB hard drive or Network?

If you set up a cable based network, you can share your DVD Rom and will install from there.

Last option sounds best in my opinion, you may find it difficult on a usb stick - not sure but think all microsoft software comes with copy protection as an anti-piracy measure.