Office 2007, need advice on legalities

[shrimply]

Hi again just looking for a bit of advice, I can get office ultimate for £38.95 or something like that which really is too good a deal to turn down, for a program like publisher itself that's a good price.

 

The thing is though I already have the Home and Student installed on my laptop ( 1 PC licence). I'd like to transfer this package to an older PC and install Office Ultimate on my laptop as it is the computer I use at uni.

 

Is this possible or am I able to download and install the programs I want on the laptop and the other 4 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote) on the other PC.

[RandyL]

I'm a little confused here shrimply. But I'll try to answer your first 2 paragraphs first.

 

If you uninstall the single license Sudent version of Office from your first PC first it should be perfectly legal to install it on a second PC. Also these versions in the US allow it to be installed on more then one computer with the same license since Microsoft knows that students have computers at school, home etc. Ask your school about this. They give you this discounted version while in school hopeing you will keep their product once you graduate. So you may be able to run it on more then one computer.

 

So now you have a different version of office you bought too. Office versions will be incompatable. It's not wise to try to run one program against another. There are bound to be conflicts as the programs are integrated.

 

Only run one version of any Office program at a time. So if you have Office 2000 full don't try to install and run a later version of Publisher along side it.

 

As for your last part I'm confused. Exactly what are you downloading.