Hi, You could always install linux on it instead of XP and use OpenOffice.
Else you could extract an image of the office disc - stick it on a network somewhere and mount the image on your eee then install.. Exactly how to do this I can't outline off the top of my head but it should be doable with a bit of googling. :P Cheers Karl On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Ranulph Glanville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, this isn't about eeZee who was always over the top and deeply > clumsy, but sometimes gave very good help! > > Since Apple won't make a netbook, I bought an asus eee (the 10" one > that it seems hard to find in the UK). It comes with windows xp, and > no dvd player. > > I have to put office on it, much as I hate to do so. Has anyone any > clever way of using a dvd drive not on the eee to install office. I'm > reluctant to go out to buy a usb dvd drive just to install software I > don't like into an OS I absolutely hate. All my other computers are > macs. > > (Why get the eee: because I need to edit a lot and my 17" MBP won't > open on trains. Why windows, not linux: because the shops in > Australia only had the windows edition.) > > Any help gratefully received > > Ranulph > > For those who question whether this is a mac issue: of course it's > not. Or, of course it is: since Apple won't produce this much needed > machine, we have to look elsewhere. So it's a mac matter because > Apple won't give us a mac version. You can't edit text on an iphone. > That's convoluted, isn't it? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
