Transferring Office 2011 from one mac (osx 10.8.2) to another (new mac)

The best way, in my opinion, is to uninstall Office from your current Mac:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2398768

and reinstall it on the new Mac using the original CD or disk image (if you bought Office as a download). That way all the necessary components will get installed in their appropriate places, something that may not happen if you use Migration Assistant or try to copy the components manually.

For the licensing, this may help:

http://blogging.cwl.cc/2012/02/easy-way-to-move-your-microsoft-office.html

You probably will want to back that file up, at least, so you can copy it to the new Mac if the normal registration doesn't work.

Regards.

I assume you would have to copy the licence files to the memory stick before Office is removed from the old computer (sorry if this is an obvious question!).

You'd be manually removing the license file, so it would be up to you at which point you delete the license file from your old computer. But I'd copy it to the memory stick first, just do i didn't make the mistake of deleting it inadvertently.

And Office would need to be removed before starting the Migration process I assume.

I'd recommend it. There's no point in having Migration Assistant copy unnecessary files, and removing Office first will elminate any change that you'd have mixed version of components after you install Office from the CD on the new system.

Regards.

When I got my new iMac at the beginning of the month, Setup Assistant transferred Office over without a hitch. All I needed to do on the new iMac, the first time I launched Word, was to enter the serial number, which was on the disk received with Office 2011.

Hello -

I recently stumbled across this post and was wondering if transferring the files worked?

Thanks!