6 Legitimate Ways to Get Microsoft Office for FREE!

6 Legitimate Ways to Get Microsoft Office for FREE!

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Paying for Microsoft Office? Well, well, well, there?s always Microsoft Office Free Trial & Office Online!

No doubt, Microsoft Office has been reigning office applications category since made its debut back in the 90s. That said, the software comes with a hefty price that can make pockets go dry.

The Microsoft Office 365 subscriptions start from 69.99$ per year to 150$ one-time buy for Home and Personal subscription. The other professional/business Office 365 subscriptions can go as high as 13$ per user/month for an annual commitment. And the Microsoft Office 2016 Home & Business currently costs 209$ for a single PC user license.

But hey, that doesn?t mean you have to pay for it to use! Yes, there are multiple ways to use Microsoft Office for free, and without ? or to some extent ? having to compromise any premium features.

Let?s have a look on ?6 Ways to get Microsoft Office for FREE!?

1. USE THE MICROSOFT OFFICE FREE ONLINE/ THE OFFICE WEB-APP

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It?s 2018, and every app, the software we use or have been using has come to online presence. There?s no such thing as offline-only existence app.

And that?s what Microsoft is doing ? gradually expanding the numbers of Microsoft apps you can access and use online for free.

Office Online offers all the essential web-app version of the Microsoft Office Suite for free.

  • Word
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • OneNote
  • Sway
  • Outlook
  • People
  • Calendar
  • OneDrive

It?s really easy. Go to this webpage, pick an app you want to use for free, and sign in to your Microsoft account to get things started. And even if you don?t have Microsoft account, you can always create one for free. However, if you are already signed into your Microsoft account, you can directly visit Office.com to choose the free Office web-apps.

However, you have to settle for fewer premium features. The Office Online doesn?t offer full-fledged features; you?ll be missing features like Text boxes, Equations, WordArt, Charts and more in Word Online. Plus, to the downside, you?ll always have to online to use it for free.

But doing the simple tasks like opening the files, editing them and syncing them to your OneDrive won?t be a problem.

2. USE MICROSOFT OFFICE FREE MOBILE APPS

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Like said earlier, it?s 2018, and it?s kind of become mandatory to have a mobile app version of any products (PC software).

And Microsoft comes with all the office suite available for as mobile app versions! The Office Mobile allows similar features to what the Office Online offers!

The only thing you need to do is Microsoft Office free download from the respective store!

You can open, edit and sync your documents directly to your OneDrive with little to all features available there.

For Android, there are two versions of the Office Mobile; Legacy version for Android 4.0 and up, and stable latest version. The legacy version is an all-in-one Microsoft Office Free Mobile app with top office suites, while the new Android OS users can download individual office apps from the Play Store.

Individual Android Office Suite apps:

  • Word
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • OneDrive
  • Outlook
  • OneNote
  • SharePoint

And for iOS users, there is only so such version as a legacy version of Office suite. Every office apps can be individually downloaded from the App Store for free. However, the iPad Pro users have to have Office 365 Subscription in order to use the office suite, which means the Microsoft Office is not free for iPad Pro users!

3. MICROSOFT OFFICE FREE TRIAL: TRY 1-MONTH OFFICE 365 FOR FREE.

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Ohh, yes, Microsoft still follows the mantra ?Try it before you buy it.? Which is why Microsoft provides 30 days full-fledged Microsoft Office Free Trial ? Office 365 Free Trial. You just need to head over the 1-Month Office Free Trial page and click ?Try 1-Month Free? button. Yup, that?s it ? that?s the answer to your question ?How to use Office 365 for free??

What do you get with 30 days Microsoft Office Free Trial?

  • Full Office Suite; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook, plus Publisher and Access for Windows PCs
  • Permission to download Office 365 on up to five users; Five PCs or Macs or For five tablets and five phones
  • 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage for up to five users.
  • 60 Skype minutes to call mobile phone and landline in selected regions/countries!

The only catch to this is you will need to provide the payment information (like PayPal or Credit Card) before you proceed the download, so when the trial ends, your account will be automatically charged 79.99 per year.

4. MICROSOFT OFFICE FREE TRIAL: SIGN-UP FOR OFFICE 365 PROPLUS FREE TRIAL

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Yup, **DRUM ROLL** there is another Microsoft Office FREE Trial. In fact, this one, from the Microsoft Evaluation Center, is more complete than the previous trial offer. The O365 ProPlus Trial can be for 30 to 60 days with Skype for Business as an extra additional app to Office 365 Trial.

Go through O365 ProPlus Trial and register for another 30-days MS Office free trial, and for further information on what O365 ProPlus includes, visit Plan O365 ProPlus.

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Originally published at prabidhi.info on July 5, 2018.

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