As part of signing up for a trial or purchasing Office, you will be prompted to sign in with a Microsoft account. You must be signed in with this account to install and manage your Office software, or to use some subscription benefits, including OneDrive storage and Skype minutes. Learn more about setting up your account. If you have already created your account, visit accounts. A Product Key is a unique character alpha-numeric code used to redeem and activate your Office product.
You cannot use a product key for an older Office product or a different product to redeem your new copy of Office.
To find your Product Key, look for the character alpha-numeric code on the back of the card inside your Office product packaging. Sometimes the Product Key may be printed on your retail receipt.
Get information on locating your product key. After you associate your Product Key to your Microsoft account, you can sign in to accounts. But it's a good idea to keep your Product Key in a secure location as proof of purchase or to help our support agents trace your product. It's best to use your existing Microsoft account. If you use other Microsoft products or services e. Xbox, OneDrive, Outlook. If you forgot your username or password, recover those details by returning to sign in and clicking on Can't access your account?
Office is available in the languages listed below. Microsoft offers simple and cost-effective solutions for multilingual individuals, families, and small businesses. Sign in with the Microsoft account that you used to purchase, or have already associated, with the subscription or one-time purchase product, and then follow the onscreen instructions to install Office. Learn more about where to enter your Office product key. To download and install older versions of Office, visit www. Microsoft Family can be shared among 6 users and installed on multiple devices, including PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, Android tablets, and Android phones.
Microsoft Personal is for 1 user and can also be installed on multiple devices. You can purchase Microsoft subscriptions for both Mac and Windows. The Publisher and Access applications are not available for Mac.
Current Office application versions for Microsoft and Office are available for both Windows and Mac. Learn about which Office versions can work side-by-side on the same device in this article. The actual download speed of Office depends on the speed of your Internet connection; a broadband Internet connection is recommended for the best download experience.
All versions of the new Office for Windows PCs use a streaming technology that lets you begin to use Office applications before installation is complete. Icons for Office applications are created when you install Office. You can start the applications by clicking the icons, which are installed in the following locations:.
The bit version of Office is installed by default. Even if your computer is running a bit version of Windows, we recommend that you install the bit version of Office, because it is more compatible with the applications and add-ins that work with Office.
If you do want to install the bit version of Office, you can do so by visiting accounts. It is not possible to install both the bit version and bit versions of Office on the same computer. If you have installed Microsoft on the maximum number of PCs, Macs, or tablets and want to use Microsoft on a different device, you can deactivate a device by visiting accounts.
The copy of Office on the device you deactivated will revert to read-only mode, which means documents can be viewed but not edited. You will not lose any documents that are saved locally on the original device. Ready for Microsoft ? Expand all Collapse all. How do I know if my computer can run Microsoft ? Is internet access required for Microsoft ? However, Internet access is required to install and activate all the latest releases of Office suites and all Microsoft subscription plans.
For Microsoft plans, Internet access is also needed to manage your subscription account, for example to install Office on other PCs or to change billing options. Internet access is also required to access documents stored on OneDrive, unless you install the OneDrive desktop app. You should also connect to the Internet regularly to keep your version of Office up to date and benefit from automatic upgrades.
To reactivate your Office applications, reconnect to the Internet. Will I still have control of my documents with Microsoft ? If you cancel your subscription or it expires, you can still access and download all your files by signing in to OneDrive directly using the Microsoft account you used to set up Microsoft You do lose the additional storage that comes with your subscription, so you must save your files elsewhere or buy more OneDrive storage if your OneDrive account exceeds the free storage quota.
When would my subscription start? How do I share Microsoft with the rest of my household? Microsoft Office resources Office support Find account support, app training, and usage tips. Other versions of Office Learn about other versions of Office and how you can upgrade to the new Microsoft The terms listed on that page say the offer is non-transferable, but the product that is ultimately delivered is a retail license that can indeed be sold or given away.
If you have a college student in the family, make sure they're aware of this offer. However, when I priced out new notebook and desktop PCs at a couple of online retailers, including Dell, I found inconsistent results. The notebooks at Dell offered higher prices on Office Basic and Small Business than you would pay for a shrink-wrapped copy—and since they allow only one install, that doesn't seem like the right way to go.
For details about Action Pack eligibility and restrictions, see this write-up from earlier this year. I don't recommend buying those shrink-wrapped OEM Office copies. Academic copies are usually a great deal, as long as you read the rules carefully and make sure you qualify. Developers are in short supply. Here are the skills and programming languages employers need. The painful shame of owning an Android phone. Time for a Linux smartphone? McDonald's quietly revealed its stunning future -- and some customers will like it.
If you use Google Chrome, you need to install this now. AWS launches new EC2 instance type for high performance computing tasks. Developers, DevOps, or cybersecurity? An upgraded Navigation Bar makes it easy to jump between notebooks to copy or merge information. When you're collaborating on a project, OneNote now features automatic highlighting so you can quickly find changes to your notebook since your last save.
Features like these, along with new visual styles and a Web version with live changes, make OneNote the key collaborative tool of the suite. Our only question is whether people will accept OneNote as their mainstay for live collaboration since it has less name recognition than bigger apps in the suite. In addition to upgraded collaboration tools, you'll now be able to work on your documents anywhere with slimmed down Web-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote.
The Web based components will make sharing information easier whether it's from your home computer, your phone, or when you're traveling for business. The Web apps preserve the look and feel of a document regardless of the device you're working on--even if it's your smartphone.
These apps seem to work as advertised mostly, but we wonder how well the Web-based versions will work when server loads reach into the several millions of users. What sets these apps apart from Google Docs and other services is that your documents and spreadsheets retain their formatting, giving Office 's Web apps a leg up against its online counterparts.
Excel has received some tweaks as well, with easier-to-read, color-coded spreadsheets and smart tools to bring in the information you need. In Excel , you can flip through the tabs to access formulas, insert diagrams and charts, and quickly import data from connected sources. A new feature called Sparklines lets you create a small chart in a single cell.
This lets users compare data across multiple cells with added graphical elements to make them easier to read and spot trends over time.
These moves seem to suggest that Microsoft is trying to make spreadsheets a little more accessible to a wider swath of users. We welcome the new customization features, especially as Excel retains the powerful tools users have come to expect. Those who are involved in creating their own publications and newsletters will appreciate new changes to Publisher With several available templates, you can add your personal business logo graphics and branding and then preview them in real time across each template style.
Microsoft has added ligatures and Stylistic Alternates to fonts so you can add your own personal touches to your publications. Like the other applications we've talked about in Office , Publisher offers the same new useful image-editing tools, so effects, color-correction, cropping, and more are only a few clicks away.
Late to our labs and late to the game, some might say, with Google and Yahoo leading the pack are some of the new features that Windows Live Hotmail will support when it launches to all users in July or August.
Microsoft says users will be offered the option to upload Office documents or images to their SkyDrives, and then send a link of their work to a friend who uses Hotmail. This will eliminate the need to use caution when sharing large files for presentations, videos, or large collections of photos, because the documents will exist in the cloud.
The recipient will be able to view documents in their original format and large multimedia files in their Inbox without the need to wait for a huge download. This gives Hotmail users the opportunity to pick and choose which content they want to download from SkyDrive. As a result of new feature additions to Hotmail, images and video will receive new options, too, including the ability to automatically view a collection of images in a slideshow, and the ability to view photos and video from third-party services like FlickR, SmugMug, Hulu, and YouTube, all without having to leave Hotmail.
Microsoft also says it will push Windows live e-mail, calendar, and contact information, and more to your Windows Mobile phone using Exchange ActiveSync. Other new features we saw in the demo included separate sections for viewing shipping information and e-mails from social Web sites, which represent a significant amount of all e-mail messages. Does Office offer enough to make it worth the upgrade from earlier versions?
We think that largely depends on how you use Microsoft Office. New templates and quick access to video and image-editing tools are welcome additions for those who create visual presentations of their content. Serious spreadsheet power users will like the new features that tie data together in Excel while making complex data more accessible in the Ribbon and more exciting visually. Outlook's new conversation-scrubbing features and Quicksteps for common e-mail actions could save daily e-mail users a lot of time, if they're willing to learn the ropes initially.
If you feel like Office or Office have all the features you need in your line of work, then there's probably little reason to upgrade. Obviously, the Ribbon is now the preferred method across the entire suite for getting to features quickly. If you didn't like the Ribbon in Office , you probably won't like it now, but we think there's plenty of utility in having a common interface tool across all the apps; it might be worth learning a new way of doing things if you want to streamline your work flow.
The new Hotmail integration features that will launch alongside Office may give Google Docs a run for its money if they work as advertised. We're impressed with what we've seen so far, but we'll need to reserve judgment until users are relying on the new features en masse.
Office is a worthy upgrade for those who desire new templates and visual styles, better ways of editing multimedia content in publications and presentations, and easier methods of collaboration. The ability to work from anywhere with the new Web apps is surely a big reason to upgrade if your job requires that kind of flexibility. Microsoft Office Home and Business has the tools you need to stay connected and productive--at home, the office, and on the road.
With powerful e-mail, scheduling, and task list tools in Outlook you can access virtually anywhere, you'll always be in touch.
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