Students, staff, and faculty are entitled to install Microsoft Office on personally-owned laptop and desktop computers.
Microsoft Office must connect to the Internet at least every 30 days to allow the software license to be validated.
NOTE: You must be an active student - enrolled in at least one class - in order to be eligible to use Microsoft Office. Staff and Faculty must be active employees.
Downloading and Installing Microsoft Office
Before installation: Make sure that you do not have any previous, full or trial versions of Microsoft Office installed. If you do, please uninstall them and restart your device.
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Go to m365.msstate.edu.
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At the Microsoft Sign in prompt, type in your netid@msstate.edu email address and click Next.
Note: If you are already signed into your MSU M365 account, you will not be taken to a login page. Instead, you will be taken to the main M365 page. Skip to Step #4.
- Click Work or school account.
- Type in your NetPassword and click Sign in.
- Authenticate with Duo.
- The page will open in Copilot. Click on the square of dots.
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Click on Apps and More apps.
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Click on Install apps.
- In the drop-down box click on Microsoft 365 apps.
- You will be redirected to your account portal on a new tab. Under the Office apps & devices section, click Install Office. Follow your browser's prompts for downloading, open the downloaded file, then follow the installation wizard to install Microsoft Office 365.
