– 30 Days RELATED: Microsoft offers a free month of Office 365 Home Premium, which allows you. The only downside here is you’ll have to provide payment details at the time of download. You’ll have to cancel your service before the free month ends or Microsoft will start charging you $9.99 per month. – 60+ days RELATED: Microsoft also offers a free 60-day trial of Office Professional Plus 2013.
Unlike the standard Office 365 Home Premium trial, this free trial doesn’t require any payment information. You can also use a hidden trick to. You have to extend your free trial period before it expires, however — if you let your free trial expire, you can’t extend it further. The Office Professional Plus Trial gives you a download link and a product key you can enter.
For instance, if you already own Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, you can buy the Office 2010 Home & Office version and save over $200. When installing it, select to keep the 2007 version Microsoft Access and Publisher.
Microsoft requires you install a download manager and you end up with an.IMG file, which isn’t a convenient format. It’s as if they want to make this process confusing so average Windows users don’t use it. We recommend using the to extract the.IMG file’s contents. You don’t have to burn anything to disc — just run the setup.exe file after extracting it to install Office on your computer. After installing Office, click Enter a product key instead in the Activate Office window and enter the product key Microsoft gave you. It’s a web-based version of Office you can use in your web browser. It works with documents stored in your OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) account, not with documents on your computer.
Word Online and its siblings are more limited and can’t be used offline, but they should offer excellent compatibility with Office document formats. Office Online gives you a way to use Microsoft Office for free on any PC, Mac, Linux system, or Chromebook. Office Online lacks most of Office’s features, but most people don’t use all those features. It’s not all lacking, either — Office Online actually offers better than the desktop version of Office 2013 does. For Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone RELATED: Office Mobile was, while the Android and iPhone versions of Office required an Office 365 subscription. The Office Mobile apps for Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone are now free to everyone.
Like Office Online, they work with documents stored in your OneDrive account. You can now use Office Mobile on your smartphone for free, and Office Online on your PC for free. Office for iPad does require an Office 365 subscription to edit documents, however. Microsoft’s note-taking service offers applications for the Windows desktop, Mac, Windows 8, the web, iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows Phone — practically any platform you’d want to use.
Make no mistake, this is a note-taking application, so you won’t be composing Word documents, constructing spreadsheets, or putting together presentations. Many Office users on Windows loved OneNote, and it’s now a free and worthy competitor to Evernote. Windows Devices With Free Office Included RELATED: Some Windows PCs come with a free copy of Microsoft Office.
If you buy these devices, you’ll be able to use Office without paying a monthly fee or buying a boxed copy. As a general rule, Microsoft is including a free copy of Office on lower-end devices you wouldn’t want to run Office on, while you’ll have to pay for Office on higher-end devices you would want to run Office on. Windows RT Devices: is almost dead and you’ll only find it on Microsoft’s Surface 2 and original Surface (also known as the Surface RT). This version of Windows can’t run any non-Microsoft desktop applications, but it does include a free copy of Office on the desktop. 8-inch and Smaller Windows 8.1 Tablets: If you, you’ll get a free copy of Microsoft Office with it. Of course, it won’t work too well — Office’s natural environment is a larger display with a keyboard and mouse, not an eight-inch touch screen.
Luckily, you can always connect such smaller tablets to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse and turn that tablet into a desktop PC. Some Low-End Windows 8.1 Devices: Some other lower-end Windows 8.1 devices include a free copy of Office.
For example, the $349 ASUS Transformer Book T100 convertible includes a free copy of Office, even though it has a 10-inch screen. On more expensive devices — for example, devices — you won’t get a free copy of Office. Bonus: Other Office Solutions RELATED: Microsoft Office isn’t the only game in town when it comes to Office software.
Here are some other you may want to choose from:.: Available online on the Google Drive website and in the Google Drive apps for Android, iPhone, and iPad, Google Docs allows you to work on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. You can and use Google Dos when you don’t have an Internet connection.: iWork, Apple’s simplified office suite, is free to new Mac, iPhone, and iPad devices. It isn’t just for these devices, though — you can access a web-based version of iWork on the, allowing you to.: LibreOffice is a free office suite that sprang from OpenOffice.org.
It’s a full-featured office suite that runs on your PC and provides lots of features. This office suite still looks like Office 2003 — it doesn’t have a ribbon.: Abiword is a nice option if you just want the basics.
It’s not fancy, but it’s small, very lightweight, and offers the basic word-processing features most people need. There are other considerations if you’re using Microsoft Office for business purposes. For example, the free versions of Office that come with some Windows devices are technically “Home and Student” licenses, so you’d be violating the license if you used them for business use. Office 365 Home Premium also has a license that specifically prohibits commercial use.
Go to your desktop and double-click the Office installation file. When prompted, enter the product key that was given to you when you registered. The download will subsequently begin. Office 2010 Trial uses 'Click-Run' technology, which allows you to start using Office while it is still downloading. Go to 'Start' and select 'Programs' if you have a PC that came with the Office 2007 trial. Look for Microsoft Office and select 'Try Microsoft Office 2007 for 60 Days.'
Installation will begin and you'll be prompted to enter the Office product key that came with your computer. After entering the product key, Office will continue to install. This is only if you already have an Office 2007 option on your PC and haven't already used the free trial.