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How to Get Microsoft Office for Free in 2020

May 10, 2020
Hello everyone, my name is Kevin. Today I want to show you how you can get Microsoft Office, which includes such popular programs as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, completely

free

of charge. It won't cost you anything. I work at Microsoft and this is the product I work on and today I'm excited to tell you about it. Okay, let's jump to the desktop. Here I am at my desk and I'm going to show you two different methods to get Microsoft Office for

free

. The first uses your browser, so whether you're using, for example, Windows 10, Mac, Linux, or Chrome OS, whatever operating system you use, you'll be able to take advantage of this.
how to get microsoft office for free in 2020
So, let's open. I'm going to open up the Chrome browser here and I'm going to go into incognito mode and what I'm going to do is go to the

office

.com website. So

office

.com is how you will access your office so you can use Office for free. So on the office.com website, you will see two different options, one is Get Office and the other is Sign In. Now, if you click Get Office, this is a marketing site where you can purchase the offline version of Office. , or you can buy a subscription,   but I mentioned that we want to get Office for free,  and to get Office for free what we're going to do is   we're just going to click sign in.
how to get microsoft office for free in 2020

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OK, so make sure you click on the button that says sign in, and once we do that, the sign in message will appear. Now, if you don't have a Microsoft account, don't worry, it's very easy to create one and creating an account is completely free. It costs you nothing to create an account. Turns out I already have one. If you have a Skype account, if you have any other type of account, you already have a Microsoft account, so I'm going to go ahead and type in one of my demo accounts that I have, so [email protected], and I'm going to go ahead and Click Next and now it wants me to enter my password.
how to get microsoft office for free in 2020
So we'll go ahead and type in my password. You can click Stay signed in if you do not want to sign in again in the future. What this will do now is take me to the office.com website and you'll see some different things here. You know, I have all these different options and the first one says start over, so I'll click on this start over button and what you'll see is I can create a Word document. You could create an Excel workbook. You could create a PowerPoint presentation. You also have other things like being able to create a form or a survey.
how to get microsoft office for free in 2020
You can also create a Sway. So there are a lot of different things you can create from this site. I said I'd show you how to use Microsoft Office for free, so why don't we go ahead and create a Word document? I'm going to click on a Word document and what you'll see now is that it will take me to a new document, so here I am in the Word interface. Here you could change the name of the document to something else, so maybe call it, let's say YouTube Star Kevin. That's right, maybe not quite, so here I am in my document and I can write.
This is an example, you might know it applies different styles, different headings, it has all the typical Word features, so now I'm going to go back to office.com. What you'll see is that I can also click on this Word tile. So if I click here, it'll take me to the Word home page and you'll know that I have a bunch of templates that I can choose from. If I click on more templates, I have a bunch that I can start with and then here I have my list of recent documents that I've been working on.
I can also pin or view   shared with me. If I go back, I can also click on Microsoft Excel, it's very similar to the Word startup experience, and then here I can also click on PowerPoint, and you get the idea. I get all the different apps. One of the things I love about this is that I also have this recent list here of all the documents I've been working on. So what I could do is, you know, here I could click on it and pin it, remove it from the list, open the file location, so I could do a lot of things with the file.
What I can also do is say you have a document that you've been working on on your computer and now you want to work on it using this office.com experience. What I could do is there's this upload and open button here and if I click on that, what I could do is select a Word file, an Excel or a PowerPoint file and then I could upload it and continue working on it online. Now, let's say I have a document and I've been working on it on office.com and I want to work on it just on my machine, or maybe I want to send it to someone, so let me go back to my Kevin YouTube star document here, and what could do is, so I clicked,   I clicked on the file menu, so I'm going to click on the file menu, and inside the file menu,   there is an option that says save as and If I click on Save like, what I can do is download a copy to download the document or the .docx to my machine.
I can also get it as a PDF, so there are other formats you can get as well, but if you don't want to just leave it in the cloud, you can also pull it out. Now, some of the things you'll see are all of this: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. All of this is available online, so you need an internet connection to take advantage of it, but as long as you have an internet connection and a browser, you can use it completely free. However, if you want offline access, that's where Microsoft charges you. So if I look at this, you'll see this install button here in the top right corner.
So if I click on that, I get this little upsell message that says "Go premium with Office 365." So if I want the app on my computer, I have to pay for it. I also have the option here to purchase Office 365 in the top right corner, so I can do that. So, I mentioned that I would show you two different ways to access the Office applications. The second way to access all your Office apps is with an app called Office and it comes on your PC if you have Windows 10. So what you do is just click on the search area down here in Windows and then Type Office and it should appear as the best option.
I'm going to go ahead and click on the best matching Office and this will load the Office application. So here I am, in the app, and you'll see that it looks a lot like the office.com experience. However, the only difference is that if you look at the documents shown here versus the documents shown here, in the application I see many more documents and the reason is that many of these documents are stored on my computer and therefore , Office The app not only shows me all my documents in the cloud, but it also shows me the documents that are only on my computer, so when I see these two different experiences, I actually prefer to use the Office app because not only Do I see documents in the cloud, but also see local documents?
So, I'm going to go back for a moment and this is how you can get Office for free. I also want to show off some cool features you get with Office. It's not necessarily related to getting it for free, but it is related to some things I wanted to show. So not only do you get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, here if I click on all the apps, you get a lot more than just Word, Excel, PowerPoint, so you know, here I get a calendar, I get Flow where you can set up these different routines or tasks. You get an app called Forms that allows you to set up surveys and quizzes.
You also get OneNote, which is a fantastic note-taking program that I use all the time. You also get things like Skype for calling. You get tasks, you get Sway, which is, you know, setting up these interactive views or these kinds of interactive experiences on the web, which you can then share with others. So you get all these really cool tools with office.com. It really goes beyond Word, Excel, PowerPoint and now there's another thing I want to show before we conclude this video. If I go back to, let me go back to office.com and I'll click on this document called Sample Co-Authorization Document.
So let's open that document and what I'm going to do now is put it next to, let me open another window that I have, and also in this document and then   this is the window on the right, it's logged in with a different account than the one. window on the left,   and what you could do now is, let's say, write here. What you will see is that the text I am typing in the right window automatically appears in the left window. So let's say you're working with five or maybe ten people. You can collaborate in real time using Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
What's also cool is that not only can they all work at the same time, but now what I'm going to do is click review and I'll leave a comment here. So you could put a comment and I'll say, "Please review this and I'll leave a comment." And now what I can do is jump to my other window and you can see. Let's see, I'm going to show all the comments and here you can see the comments. So not only can you work with other people on a document and see what they're doing while you're working on it, but now you can comment back and forth while you're working on the document, so you get Word, Excel. , free PowerPoint.
You'll also get real-time collaboration. You can also comment and get many rich features in web applications. One thing to note is that web apps still don't have as many features as the apps you have on your computer, which is why Microsoft still charges for the apps that come on your computer. But the web apps are pretty good. They are constantly adding new features and they are getting better and better. And one of the nice things is that if there's something that's not in the web app that you want, there's this button in the bottom right corner that says send feedback to Microsoft, so I can click on it and you can say if you want. something you don't like.
So if I say I like something, you can write a comment, but this is where you can request functionality and just from experience, when you request something, it gets added pretty quickly, you know, in Excel, they recently added pivot tables and so on. Many more features will come to web applications. Anyway, that's all I have for you today. I wanted to show you how you can get Microsoft Office completely free. It's completely legal because office.com, the Office app, is provided by Microsoft, so you can use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You can create documents, spreadsheets, presentations and it won't cost you anything.
I hope this video has been useful to you. If so, please like it. If you want to see more videos like this, hit the subscribe button and if you have any other questions or comments, leave them below in the comments and I'll do my best to respond. Anyway, see you next time. Thanks for tuning in, bye.

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