{"id":2268,"date":"2016-08-01T21:35:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T20:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2021-03-01T21:58:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:58:39","slug":"students-grab-microsoft-office-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/01\/students-grab-microsoft-office-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Students &#8211; Grab Microsoft Office for Free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/microsoft-office-365.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2269\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/01\/students-grab-microsoft-office-for-free\/microsoft-office-365\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/microsoft-office-365.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"241,241\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"microsoft-office-365\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/microsoft-office-365.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/microsoft-office-365.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/microsoft-office-365.jpg\" alt=\"microsoft-office-365\" width=\"241\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a>Welcome student readers and academics &#8211; have you taken advantage of the offer to get <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.office.com\/start?sku=student\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free Microsoft Office<\/a> throughout your student life? \u00a0If not, don&#8217;t fork out \u00a3100 or more for it &#8211; grab it for free (legally!).<\/p>\n<p>Most students these days will have an Office 365 account setup at their institution linked to your student e-mail &#8211; i.e. john.smith@my-uni.ac.uk.<\/p>\n<p>Figures from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft<\/a> show that 99.9% of UK universities have signed up for the institution-wide licenses that give free access to the Microsoft Office Suite for free.<\/p>\n<h2>How Do I Get It?<\/h2>\n<p>Simple\u00a0&#8211; just follow these easy steps.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Head to the <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.office.com\/start?sku=student\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Office website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Enter your university e-mail address (they call it &#8216;school&#8217; &#8211; how very American ;-). \u00a0Although to be fair, this does cover a lot of colleges and schools as well! ).<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll be redirected to a login page hosted by your University &#8211; this will ask you for your credentials to sign in &#8211; i.e. your email (or username) and password that you use for your University email account.<\/li>\n<li>Upon successful sign in you&#8217;re redirected to a page allowing you to download the Microsoft Office suite for free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another important thing to note is that this is also available to teachers, lecturers and academics.<\/p>\n<h2>But I&#8217;m Not A Student \/ No Longer A Student&#8230; \ud83d\ude41<\/h2>\n<p>Sad times, I know &#8211; but it couldn&#8217;t last forever now could it?<\/p>\n<p>Fear not, the world does not end. \u00a0You can subscribe to Office 365 for about \u00a38 \/ month, but in reality &#8211; for most people, a free alternative is just a useful and easy to use and in many ways, nearly every bit as powerful as the flagship Microsoft Product.<\/p>\n<p>Our recommendation would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LibreOffice<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s Microsoft Office without the price tag. \u00a0I&#8217;ve personally been using it for years and despite a few niggly frustrations, it stands up to the test and the job. \u00a0It&#8217;s open source, regularly updated and has an equivalent product for most of the Microsoft Office suite &#8211; i.e. Word is Writer, Excel is Calc.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s available of Windows, OS X and Linux too &#8211; so no matter what your operating system, you can benefit from this truly fantastic piece of open source software!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome student readers and academics &#8211; have you taken advantage of the offer to get free Microsoft Office throughout your student life? 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