Installing Office 365 on a Mac
All LSE students and staff are eligible for free copies of Microsoft Office software on 5 desktop (PCs or Macs) and 5 mobile devices.
Using your LSE email address and password, you can log into Office 365 and download Office software onto your personal devices. The Office suite includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams.
All LSE students and staff are eligible for free copies of Microsoft Office software on 5 desktop (PCs or Macs) and 5 mobile devices.
Using your LSE email address and password, you can log into Office 365 and download Office software onto your personal devices. The Office suite includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams.
To get your free copies, please visit: https://portal.office.com/home
You'll be eligible to use this automatically updated, subscription-based software for the duration of the time you are at LSE.
When you log on to Office 365 you will see all the Apps.
You will be able to work on them straight away.
To install Office locally onto your computer:
- Click on Install Office
- The Office 365 installer package (.pkg file) will begin to download.
- Once the installer .pkg file has downloaded you can open Finder, go to Downloads, and double-click Microsoft Office installer.pkg file (the name might vary slightly) to start the installation.
- On the first installation screen, select Continue to begin the installation process.
- Review the software license agreement, and then click Continue.
Select Agree to agree to the terms of the software license agreement.
- You may see a screen prompting you to select the destination disk for the installation. If so, select the disk and click Continue.
- In the next screen you can change your install location, or choose specific Office apps to download.
- To only install specific Office apps and not the entire suite, click the Customise button and uncheck the programs you don't want.
Click Install to continue.
- Enter your Mac admin password, if prompted, and then click Install Software.
- The software will begin to install.
- Click Close when the installation is finished.
- Your apps will be ready to use.
Activate Office 365 on the Mac
When you open your first Office 365 app you will be required to activate the licence. You will need to be online to activate Office and to authenticate your sign in.
- Click on an app, such as Word. Click Get started.
- Click Sign In to activate Office.
- Enter your LSE email address and click Next.
- Type in your password and click Next
- If you have enabled multi-factor authentication (MFA) you will be prompted to verify your sign in
- Once verified, you can start using your app.