If you have an Office 365 (or Microsoft 365) plan, you can provide your users with instructions on how to download and install Office for Mac for themselves. To install Office for Mac, a user has to be administrator on the Mac or know an administrator account name and password. Several issues could be making Office 365 run much slower than this reader’s “old reliable” Office 2003. Also, fixing junk-mail settings for your web-based client may take more than one tweak.
Note for Mac users: Office 365 ProPlus allows you to install Microsoft Office 2016 only if you have OS X 10.10 or later. After installing Microsoft Office 2016, your Microsoft Office 2011 applications (if previously installed) will still exist in Applications in a folder titled Microsoft Office 2011.
- Using Outlook on the web (webmail.stanford.edu), click the app launcher in the upper left-hand corner and then click Office 365.
- Click Install Office > Office 365 apps.
Note: Office 365 ProPlus includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. Office 365 ProPlus for Windows also includes Access, Publisher, and OneDrive for Business. - A file downloads to your computer. Once the file has finished downloading, click the file and go through the installation steps.
This screen shot shows the Windows instructions. Mac instructions are similar but slightly different. - After Office 365 ProPlus has finished installing you need to sign in to Office with your Stanford Office 365 account.
- Windows: Click Start > My Office. Open any app (e.g., Word), click Accept and start <program name>.
- Mac: Open your Applications folder and click a Microsoft app (e.g., Microsoft Word.app). In the application name menu (e.g., Word) click Activate Office. Sign in with your Stanford email address and click Next. Authenticate using two-step authentication.
Today, Office 365 is available for the first time on the Mac App Store, making it easier than ever for Mac users to download Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and the whole suite of Microsoft’s popular apps. Users can also purchase a subscription for Office 365 from within the apps, so they can get up and running instantly.
Office 365 for Mac has been designed specifically to support features that are unique to the Mac experience — features like Dark Mode and Continuity Camera in macOS, as well as the MacBook Pro Touch Bar and the Mac’s industry-leading Trackpad.
“We are excited to welcome Microsoft Office 365 to the all new Mac App Store in macOS Mojave,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Apple and Microsoft have worked together to bring great Office productivity to Mac users from the very beginning. Now, with Office 365 on the Mac App Store, it's easier than ever to get the latest and best version of Office 365 for Mac, iPad and iPhone.”
“We are excited to announce that today Office 365 is arriving in the Mac App Store,” said Jared Spataro, corporate vice president at Microsoft. “We have worked closely with Apple to provide Mac users with the very best productivity experience — one that offers everything they know and love about Office through an experience uniquely designed for the Mac.”
In business, as at home, employees want access to the best devices and apps to do their work. With Office 365 on the Mac App Store, these apps can now be easily distributed to employees using Apple Business Manager, a central dashboard where IT can deploy devices, apps and licenses. Now IT can quickly enable employees to get to work with their favorite Office tools across Mac, iPad and iPhone, with great new features designed specifically for Apple devices.
About the Mac App Store
The Mac App Store is the single largest catalog of Mac apps in the world. Newly redesigned this past year, the Mac App Store features a new look and rich editorial content for a more enjoyable experience when finding great, new apps for the Mac. Like the iOS App Store, the new Mac App Store celebrates apps, games, businesses and developers with an all-new Discover tab featuring compelling stories, in-depth interviews, helpful tips, collections of must-have apps and more. Users can also explore new Create, Work, Play and Develop tabs to find the perfect app for a specific project or purpose — from music, video and photography apps to business utilities and games.
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