Install Office 2010 CD on laptop with no CD player

Install Office 2010 CD on laptop with no CD player

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Police State

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4,110 posts

226 months

Friday 6th May 2022
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I have a legit copy of MS Office 2010 with the version of Outlook i really like, I have the CD and serial number.

does anyone know how I can install the software on a new laptop with no CD player?

is there an easy way?


Neddy Sea Goon

239 posts

54 months

Friday 6th May 2022
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Buy a usb CD drive ?

Police State

Original Poster:

4,110 posts

226 months

Friday 6th May 2022
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Neddy Sea Goon said:
Buy a usb CD drive ?
I would if i could find a shop that actually stocks them.

gizard

2,254 posts

289 months

Friday 6th May 2022
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Outlook 2010 no longer works with 365 account etc. - which i have found out to my annoyance....

spitfire-ian

3,887 posts

234 months

Friday 6th May 2022
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Police State said:
Neddy Sea Goon said:
Buy a usb CD drive ?
I would if i could find a shop that actually stocks them.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/External-Portable-Rewrite...

craig1912

3,620 posts

118 months

Friday 6th May 2022
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Police State said:
I would if i could find a shop that actually stocks them.
Amazon, Currys,

RizzoTheRat

25,868 posts

198 months

Friday 6th May 2022
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You might still be able to download a copy of the Office 2010 install from Microsoft, which you can then install with your legitimate license.

If you have a mate who does have a CD drive you could get them to rip the disk and then use something like Daemon Tweeks to load it in a virtual drive on your PC, and again use your licence to install it. You could also bypass the ripping step and download from a dodgy site, you install would still be legal as you have the licence.

if you use office at work you can probably get on the Home User Programme and get 365 at a discount, which I think is about £50/year, which sounds expensive but it also gets you 1TB of storage on One Drive

Captain_Morgan

1,246 posts

65 months

Friday 6th May 2022
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Amazon get it tomorrow

Ham_and_Jam

2,514 posts

103 months

Friday 6th May 2022
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Or spend £20 and download Office 2021.

sgrimshaw

7,395 posts

256 months

Friday 6th May 2022
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64-bit:

https://www.filehorse.com/download-microsoft-offic...

32-bit

https://www.filehorse.com/download-microsoft-offic...

Click the Start Download button, it downloads from Microsoft's download site.


xeny

4,590 posts

84 months

Friday 6th May 2022
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Police State said:
I have a legit copy of MS Office 2010 with the version of Outlook i really like, I have the CD and serial number.

does anyone know how I can install the software on a new laptop with no CD player?

is there an easy way?
Find a PC with a CD drive, plug a USB stick into it and copy the CD contents onto the USB stick.

Gluggy

711 posts

115 months

Monday 16th May 2022
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xeny said:
Police State said:
I have a legit copy of MS Office 2010 with the version of Outlook i really like, I have the CD and serial number.

does anyone know how I can install the software on a new laptop with no CD player?

is there an easy way?
Find a PC with a CD drive, plug a USB stick into it and copy the CD contents onto the USB stick.
Pretty much this - can use something like https://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/ to create an ISO image on the PC with the optical drive, copy it to a USB stick and then mount the ISO as a virtual drive on the laptop.

Advantage of doing it this way is the ISO is an exact copy of the installation CD so less chance of the installer throwing a hissy fit because the volume label is wrong / it will only run from a drive not a folder or something daft like that

Another side benefit is the ISO image can be burnt back to disc, just keep a copy of the file on another drive / pc and should anything happen to the original disc you can simply burn a new one.

EDIT

Just realised RizzoTheRat has already suggested this and someone else has posted download links for the installer - my bad!