{"id":25551,"date":"2023-04-09T08:43:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T12:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=25551"},"modified":"2023-04-09T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T12:43:32","slug":"how-to-use-real-ms-office-apps-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-use-real-ms-office-apps-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Real MS Office Apps for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How to Use Real MS Office Apps for Free<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

First, Microsoft doesn’t want you to call it MS Office anymore, it wants you to call its office suite Microsoft 365. But a rose by any other name is still a rose. And Microsoft Office by any other name is still Microsoft Office.<\/span><\/p>\n

So when you go to https:\/\/www.office.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/strong> to sign in, you’ll be reminded not to call it Microsoft Office anymore, but who cares? If you have a Microsoft email address – that is any address that ends with @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @live.ca, @live.com, or @msn.com you can sign in and use the Microsoft Office (Microsoft 365) like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint and more, for free.\u00a0 And if you don’t have a Microsoft account, click “Sign in” anyway…<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you don’t have a Microsoft email address, you can click Sign in on the sign-in screen above and you’ll see the Username-Password screen and an option to create a free Microsoft email address – either a free you@outlook.com or a you@hotmail.com address.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Once you sign in with your old or newly created Microsoft email address you’ll see this friendly message. And don’t worry, if you have a Microsoft email address you also have 5 GB of free OneDrive space to store all the wonderful documents you will create with your new free MS Office<\/s> Microsoft 365 account.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And you’ll find free, sometimes helpful tips along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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You’ll see that the MS Office<\/s> MS 365 apps include Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint. and Microsoft Excel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When you choose one of the MS 365 to use – for example MS Excel – you can also choose from a variety of templates or create a blank document from scratch. Also note, along the left edge you’ll see icons for all the available MS 365 apps – Word,\u00a0 PowerPoint, and Excel, as well Outlook (email), OneDrive (your free online storage space), and Teams which you can use to collaborate and hobnob with others.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Using Microsoft Word<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s easy to choose a dark or light theme in Microsoft Word<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For me and my ancient eyes, the dark theme is easier to see. You may not agree and that’s just peachy because MS 365 Online allows you to switch between dark and light themes easily.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Using MS Excel\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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If you’re not Microsoft Excel savvy, you’ll find a helpful tour to get you started. You will also find many templates available for Word and Excel that you might find helpful In the screenshot above, you can see I’m using the calendar template.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can even use voice typing with the MS 365 online apps<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Below you can see a voice-typed, hand-edited, MS Word document I created online using a free MS 365 account.\u00a0 Notice that MS Word does not like “I tells ya”, I tells ya!<\/span><\/p>\n

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While Microsoft says that MS 365 Premium Apps have more features than the free versions we say hooey!\u00a0 If you don’t want to pay for Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, you’ll find the free online versions of those programs as least as good as some of the free MS Office alternatives. And you can access them for the price of a free Microsoft email address – which you also use, believe it or not, to send and receive email!<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, you can save documents created with the MS 365 online apps to your computer<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Although MS 365 online saves all your finished and unfinished documents online, you can also save documents you create with the free MS 365 apps to your computer or other devices.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ready to try Microsoft Office<\/s> Microsoft 365 Online?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re ready to try MS 365 online, just visit https:\/\/www.office.com\/<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and sign in with your Microsoft email address – or sign up for a free Microsoft address from that page.<\/span><\/p>\n

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