Each person can also install Office on up to five tablets and up to five phones.

Office 365 Home lets five (and soon six) people, each with his or her own Microsoft account, install Office apps on up to ten PCs or Macs (or any combination of the two).

Meanwhile, Office 365 Home costs $100 per year. If you switch from a PC to Mac or vice versa, you have to buy a new copy. Office Home & Student 2016 and Office Home and Student 2016 for Mac are separate products, and each has a suggested retail price of $150. The boxed copies of Office aren’t a great deal anymore. RELATED: What's the Difference Between Office 365 and Office 2016? Apps for All Your PCs, Macs, Tablets, and Phones You can also use the “My Office” app that comes with Windows 10 to sign up and download the apps. You can download the apps by heading to, signing in and clicking “Install Office apps.” On a phone or tablet, download the Office apps from Apple’s App Store or Google Play and sign in with your Microsoft account. And yes, you can use them offline-your PC or Mac just has to appear online once every 30 days to keep them activated. These are the same full desktop Office applications you’d get if you purchased the standard boxed copies of Office, but they also have the advantage of getting more frequent feature updates. Publisher and Access are also included but are only available on Windows. Office 365 includes Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook. Each person gets 1 TB of OneDrive storage, too. For that price, five (soon six) people can install the latest versions of Microsoft Office on their PCs, Macs, tablets, and phones. The family plan, named Office 365 Home, costs $100 per year. You can still buy traditional boxed copies of Microsoft Office, but Office 365 is a much better deal. Office 365 is essentially a Microsoft Office subscription. After signing up for Office 365, all user accounts in your Microsoft Family will be automatically given access. You can manage your subscription directly from the Microsoft account website, too. Microsoft has made a few account changes that are taking effect immediately. Microsoft isn’t raising the price of any Office 365 plans, either. These changes take effect starting October 2, 2018. This is an improvement from now, where those five users can only install Office on up to 10 devices in total.

Users can only be signed into five Office applications at the same time, however. Microsoft is raising this limit to six, so each Office 365 Home account gets an additional user.Įach user will also be able to install Office applications on an unlimited amount of devices. Currently, Office 365 Home allows up to five users. Microsoft just announced improvements for Office 365 users.

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