Office 365, on the other hand, does impact Mac users, but it doesn’t introduce any new features; rather, it’s essentially a new licensing model for Office for Mac.

The directions below are for all faculty, staff and students on Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or 10.9 (Mavericks), who have access to install Office 2011 for Mac on personal computers through your Northeastern Office 365 accounts. If your Mac is running OS X 10.10+ (Yosemite), you will have been presented with Office 2016 for Mac to download. Go to for those installation directions. Once you have downloaded the Office 365 ProPlus installer (a.dmg file) from Microsoft, open and run the file.

• Faculty/staff – See • Students – See The installation wizard will come up. Click Continue to be guided through the steps. On the license page, you can read the license, or just click Agree, and then click Continue. We recommend that you let the wizard choose the installation location.

Click Install to continue. At this point, you will be presented with multiple options. • You MUST select “Sign in to an existing Office 365 subscription.” • There is NO product key – do NOT select this choice. Once you have selected to sign in with an existing subscription, Microsoft will prompt you for an “email address.” You MUST enter your Office 365 username: [myNortheastern username]@northeastern.edu This is the same information that was displayed when you logged into the Microsoft Online Portal for Northeastern. On the next screen, your Office 365 username should carry over – if it does not, type in again [myNortheastern username]@northeastern.edu. In the password field you must enter your myNortheastern password.

The rest of the installation process should proceed smoothly. • After installation, Microsoft will check the validity of your license in the background every 30 days – you may be prompted to re-authenticate your license. • You maintain a valid software license until you leave the university, after which the software will provide read-only access.

I’m ready to switch from Apple Pages to Microsoft Word and hear that Microsoft just released an entirely new and updated Office 2016. What’s the easy way to upgrade? You’re correct that Microsoft has just released a completely new, completely redesigned version of its flagship product, Microsoft Office, for Mac systems.

In fact, it’s a cross-platform release and is new for Windows systems too, along with iPad, Android and Windows tablet support and a completely different way of working with OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage system (that competes with iCloud, Apple’s cloud storage system). The entire Microsoft Office 2016 suite for Mac includes Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Word and Outlook, though it sounds like you might only be looking for the word processor piece of that (Microsoft Word). Unlike previous years when it was priced at almost $500 for the entire suite of programs, Microsoft’s apparently rethought its pricing strategy too and you can get everything for $150 in the Home & Student download edition through, for example,. We were lucky here at AskDaveTaylor in that Microsoft sent us along a license key for testing and review purposes.

That’s my disclosure too, in case you’re wondering. 🙂 To get started with the download, you can log in to the after you’ve received your license key (either from Amazon, Microsoft.com, or from purchasing a license at the local retail store). It’ll look like this: If you look closely, you’ll see that mine shows “PC/Mac Installs Used: 0”. This is a big deal, actually, because for the first time I can remember, Microsoft is using the same license for either platform. With this license, I get five installs, whether I want to use them on Macs, Windows systems, iPads, or my Windows Phone is up to me. Very nice improvement over the Mac license as completely separate from a Windows license. To proceed, I’ll click “Install >”.

Look at that list of “Other Devices”. So impressive! But let’s stay focused on the Mac side.

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