Can you back up MS office and install to a difrent PC

[grimed]

I got MS office 2013 at a big discount from work. I will be giving my old PC to my wife so she can use it for photos and other stuff.

I had a back up install disk of the MS office program but I can't locate it any wear. This disc was good for 2 pc's so It would not been against the elua to install it on a different PC.

All I will want to transfer to the new PC is the MS office program, I can copy the old documents I want to a cd.

Is there a software program i can get to do this or can i do it from the widows 7 back up some how?

 

[grimed]

If there is no way to do this I will have to try the alternative to MS office I spent the budget I allotted for the new pc and and don't want to add anything else.

I am very upset that I can't find the install disk I hate to spend the money to buy it for full retail I got it for like $29 from work but the program is not valid anymore.

 

[hennessy1]

You can download the .iso from here
http://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/73-office-2013-direct-download-links#

and you should be able to put in your key if you have it without the key no there really isn't a way to transfer just the program that I know of.

 

[xSauronx]

did you register it to a microsoft live account? i thought that allowed you to link it back to new installs /have not tested this

otherwise, maybe belarc?

 

[hennessy1]

That is correct if you were made to make a microsoft live account that contains your key and ability to manage installs and provides the installer.

@xSauronx-I have tried a number of usual programs that can retrieve keys but it seems there is something different with office 2013 as it never shows its key in these programs. The closest I have found is the ability to view the last set of digits in the key through command prompt.

 

[grimed]

You can download the .iso from here
http://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/73-office-2013-direct-download-links#

and you should be able to put in your key if you have it without the key no there really isn't a way to transfer just the program that I know of.

Thanks I was trying to do this with out paying for it again I was suppose to be able to install it on tw0 different PC's. the problem is I cant find the back up disk for it anywear.

This is my fault It was in a cardboard sleeve I probably threw it away thinking it was trash.

I even asked others at work if they still had a back up disk they wouldn,t mind if i used and all said they couldn't find it either.

If there was a way to find the key from the MS office program I have installed I would do that but I am not sure how to do that.

 

[grimed]

Oh yes I did register it after I installed it.

 

[Kaido]

1. Uninstalling & rebooting typically de-registers the Office key from your computer on the newer versions of Office. I've had to do this before. Some versions let you install a couple times despite having on a single license, and some versions let you actually deactivate them (typically from the Control Panel).

2. Run Belarc Advisor (free version) and it will tell you what your Office key is: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

3. 99% of the time, you will need the same version (disc) of the kind you installed from. The download version is almost always a different installer from the CD version and will not take the same key (in addition to different versions, i.e Home version, Business version, Pro version, etc.). You can probably get a replacement disc from Microsoft, or else check Amazon or eBay for a keyless disc for reinstall.

 

[Mushkins]

Thanks I was trying to do this with out paying for it again I was suppose to be able to install it on tw0 different PC's. the problem is I cant find the back up disk for it anywear.

This is my fault It was in a cardboard sleeve I probably threw it away thinking it was trash.

I even asked others at work if they still had a back up disk they wouldn,t mind if i used and all said they couldn't find it either.

If there was a way to find the key from the MS office program I have installed I would do that but I am not sure how to do that.

You can download an image of the disk from the website he linked, you don't need the original disk. All you need is the key from the current install, which you can either get from your Microsoft account if you registered the product, or by any of the billions of keyfinder programs out there. Magical Jellybean keyfinder is a great one that I usually use at work when we have a PC that we're not sure if it used our enterprise office license key or was one of those PCs that was bought with office bundled on it.

Disk + key = new install.