Hi guys simple question, we have recently got two new Asus N61j laptops which have came pre-installed with a Microsoft office trial version (amongst other things), now the computers that are being replaced have full versions of office on them and I was wondering if I could just uninstall office on the old laptops and use their product keys to activate the office on the new computers so that I would not have to do two new installs on the new computers

Hi,

If they are exactly the same versions of Office, then yes you should be able to, however, if they are even slightly different versions of Office, then you will have to reinstall them.

Richard

Ok thanks for that,

In relation to that how would I know which version of office the trial version is installed with, does it say that somewhere or must I just check which components are installed and see if they match up

I think it should say when you start Office up in the loading window. Otherwise it will probably say in Help|About. I cannot confirm this as I am sending this off an iPhone without Office to hand.

Richard

Ok thanks I will check when I get access to the computers again

I just reinstalled Vista on a laptop and rather than uninstall the trial and reinstall from the disk, I just put the key of the disk in. What comes as trial is usually the Home and Student edition. There was no problem at all.

Ok thanks