See the FAQ. If your Office product is one of the following, you have a Microsoft for business product. These products are usually associated with a work or school account, and your Office license if your subscription has one came from the organization where you work or go to school. Microsoft Subscriptions: The following products include the fully installed Office applications. Microsoft Subscriptions without fully installed Office applications:. Tip: With these Microsoft subscriptions, there are no desktop applications to download and install, but in most cases you can still access and use online versions of Office apps in your web browser.
Learn more Free Office Online apps. To download the offline installer, go to www. If you're not already signed in with the Microsoft account associated with your copy of Officedo that now. If you're signed in with a different account, sign out of that and then sign in again with the correct Microsoft account. Note: If you're trying to install Microsoft that you got through your work or school and you already signed in with your work or school account, don't follow these instructions.
Select the Office for business tab from above instead. Select Install Office. Check the box Download an offline installer and select the language you want to install Officein. Select Download. The file will begin downloading on your PC. Once the download is complete, open File Explorer and locate a new virtual drive, for example D:. This drive contains the Office installation files. If you don't see the new drive, locate the image file you downloaded and double-click it. The new drive should appear in your directory.
Note: If you already have a drive labeled D: , Office creates a virtual drive with the next available letter, which would be E: as shown in the next step below. Save the image: You can also choose to save a copy of this virtual drive to a thumb drive or disc for later use. Select the Officefolder from the virtual drive and then double-click either the Setup If you're not sure which version is right for you, see Choose the bit or bit version of Office.
When you see the message, You're all set , you can access your Office applications. After your Office installation is complete, you need to activate Office. Be sure you're connected to the Internet and then open any Office application, such as Word or Excel.
In most cases, Office is activated once you start an application and after you click Accept to agree to the License terms. If you need activation help, see Activate Office. From the Update Options drop-down list box, select Update Now. The tool is designed for enterprise environments and runs from the command line, so the steps are more complicated--but they'll still work for installation on a single device.
You must have an Officelicense assigned to you to install and activate Office. To check if you have one, see What Microsoft business product or license do I have? Create a folder on your hard drive and name it ODT. Select Save As and save it to your downloads folder. In your downloads folder, double-click the Office Deployment Tool exe file to install it. If you see the User Account Control prompt that says, Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device?
The drop-down list below contains detailed steps that show how to download and install the bit or bit version of Microsoft Apps for enterprise or Microsoft Apps for business. If you have a Microsoft Apps for business or Microsoft Business Standard plan, you need to download the Microsoft Apps for business version.
For all other plans, download the Microsoft Apps for enterprise version. See the following if you're not sure which version to install:. To find out which Microsoft plan you have, see What Microsoft business product or license do I have?
If you're not sure how to decide between bit or bit, see Choose between the bit or bit version of Office. You need to change what's between those quotes if you want to download Office in a different language.
If you're not sure what that is, use the URL for this topic to see your language ID, for example, "support. Save the file as installOfficeProPlus Click Start , type run , and then select the Run Desktop app to open it. The Office installation files should start downloading to the ODT folder on your computer. It can take a while to finish downloading and it may look like nothing is happening while the files are downloading.
You'll know the installation is complete once the dialog box closes on its own, and a new folder called Office appears in the ODT folder you created earlier.
After the files have finished downloading, open the Run dialog box again. This time type the following. Office should automatically activate. After you activate Office and before you start using it, make sure you have the latest updates. In the same document, select Update Options and in the drop-down list box, select Update Now. If nothing happens, close the application and repeat steps 2 and 3 to update Office from the Account page. Were these steps helpful? If so, please let us know at the bottom of this topic.
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Warning: This site requires the use of scripts, which your browser does not currently allow. See how to enable scripts. Select Language:. Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Office Bit Edition. This update provides the latest fixes to Microsoft Office Bit Edition. Additionally, this update contains stability and performance improvements.
