Many different educational institutions sign a contract with Microsoft that allows all of the students, faculty, teachers of their institution to use Office for free. The school pays for it. The students get easy access to it. In this article we will see about Office Student Discount
How to get started with Office 365 Education for free?
Firstly, you need to visit the website that lets you get Office for free. Open the browser and search for Office free for students. One of the top results that you would see will be a student discount for Microsoft Office. What you need to do is to click on Get started. By clicking on it, it will take you to the respective website. You can also type in the URL to navigate to the concerned website. So, what they want you to do is if your institution is a part of this program, you need to enter your school email address and click on Get started.
- Once you click on the [Get started] button, that will bring you to a form where you are required to fill out your name, your date of birth, and then you also have to enter a verification code. That part of the procedure is to confirm that you do belong to that educational institution.
- After this, what happens is that the user will get an email consisting of the verification code.
- This verification code is to be entered that ensures that you have access to Office 365 Education.
- Then, click on Get started and proceed further by clicking on Ok, got it.
- It will drop you on a website called Office.com. On Office.com, you will get the first-run experience.
- On Office.com, you can create a new Word document, an Excel workbook, a PowerPoint presentation, and even you have access to all of the web applications.
- If you want to install applications on your computer, what you need to do is there is a big button at the top right corner which says Install Office. So, if you click on Install Office, you can click on Office 365 apps, and it kicks off a download process immediately. You can go and install Office.
- Once you have installed Office what you need to do is just open any one of the apps, let’s say Word document.
- After opening, click on the name displayed on the top right-hand corner, and then you need to sign in with your educational account by providing your email and password.
- Then the current version of your Microsoft Office is tied to your education account. Now, you can then use all the apps installed on your computer entirely for free as your school covers it for you.
- So it is like you could use the web applications entirely for free, or you could use the applications you install on your computer for free.
What happens if you visit the website and enter your school email address, but your school doesn’t participate in the program?
If this is the case, there is a way that you can still use Office for free. So, what you have to do is if your educational institution is not participating in this program:
- Open up another browser and head to the website Office.com where you will be able to get to use Office for free.
- You will see two different links on the screen. One of them is to Sign in and, the other is to get Office.
- If you click on Get Office, it will take you to their marketing website, where you can buy Office to install on your machine. They offer two different subscription options. Then, you also have a version where you could pay one time. The benefit is that you could use Office and add it to your computer.
- However, if you don’t want to pay money and want it for free, what you could do is click on the Sign-in button. You can log in with an existing Microsoft account or if you don’t already have an account you could create a new one for free.
- After doing so, you will land on Office.com where you will be able to use all of the web applications entirely for free. It works whether you are a student or not a student. Anyone can use this to get this Microsoft Office software without any cost.
- However, if you want to use Office online you can do that as long as you have an internet connection.
Conclusion:
It is how you can get Office entirely for free whether you are a student, teacher, or faculty member of an educational institution and your institution has an agreement with Microsoft. But if your institution does not have an agreement with Microsoft, you can still be able to use the web applications entirely for free. The apps are pretty good in terms of functionality and are constantly getting better day by day.
