Or tap Install Office on your smartphone.ĭuring the download process, you will be asked for your credentials to be attached to the UW-Eau Claire domain, and you won't be asked to log in again in the future. All of the programs will download together, and you can later delete the short-cuts to the programs you don't need. You will also be able to access all the applications included with Office without further downloads.
Installing Office 365 Software (PC & Mac) Installing Office 365 on a Mobile Device.
The software is free and is yours to use as long as you currently have a UW-Eau Claire account. At this time, the free licenses are not available for guest/retiree/emeritus accounts. If you’ve installed Office 365, let me know your experience in the comment section.As part of Office 365, every student and current employee at UW-Eau Claire has access to five copies of the most recent version of Microsoft Office to install on personally-owned devices computers. Now you’re ready to enjoy the latest Microsoft Office products. If you get an activation message, then do this.
I believe you need to sign in to activate your account anyway. To get to this screen, click on the ‘File’ option, this takes you to a ‘backstage’ area where you can get things set up and personalized. Then open up one of the programs – here I’m showing Excel and you can see I have signed in with my Microsoft account – that way, it’ll remember me and my documents from anywhere. You’ll follow the prompts to get Office installed on your device – it’ll probably take about 30 minutes. Or if you’re putting it on a device, then just choose the appropriate one. Then choose Office for the Mac or Windows and click on Install. Once your account is set up and you’re logged in, you’ll see the screen below. If you’ve never had one, you will need to set one up. Here’s where you sign in with a Microsoft account. So go ahead and click it.īefore you get to this page, you’ll first be taken to a Microsoft login screen (like the first image above). I opened the email that says what I’ll get if I click the big green ‘Accept’ button. I sent an invitation to myself so I could show the steps here. Even though your family has their own page, you can still deactivate a subscription, if need be. This means they can handle their own install and you, as the software purchaser, won’t have to share your Microsoft account details with them. Microsoft has it set up now so that each person will have their own Microsoft ‘page’, where they can manage their subscription. Dwight is using one and below that there’s another install that’s not shown. Remember you get 5 installs with this software. Then, you’ll see the two pending invitations I sent. You can see that my name is listed first over on the left. Then you’ll be taken to a screen like that below to sign into the account you used to make your purchase.Īfter you’re logged in, look over to the right and you’ll see your profile along with a hyperlink to click that’ll take you to your purchase history and a list of your on-line keys, or access to your products.īelow is what you’ll see when you click on your Office 365 Home information. Simply type in your search box ‘Microsoft Store’, and you’ll get a link. So let’s go!įirst thing to remember is that any purchase you make from Microsoft on-line (and you will have to purchase these subscriptions on-line) is saved in your order history.
Then we’ll show that family member how to install Office on their own computer. This article will show the buyer of the service how to access the account and will show you how to get a subscription to your family member. 2014, now 1TB storage), and use of Office on-line from any computer with Office On Demand. Along with having the latest versions of Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher and Access, we also get 60 free Skype minutes each a month, 20GB of storage ( updated Sep. With this, I got the ability to share 5 installs of Microsoft Office 2013 with my family. Last fall, I purchased the Microsoft Office 365 Home subscription service for $99.