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How to Sign In to Office 365 and install the desktop apps

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This is a tutorial on how to install Microsoft Office 365 for your personal computers.

  1. To login to Office365, go to https://m365.cloud.microsoft/ On the site you shall want to find a button to sign in with. After clicking you should see something like the screen below. Type in your full SOU email address (e.g. username@sou.edu) and press enter or tab (or click in the Password box).  In some cases, you may already see your email address listed.  Just click on your email address to continue logging in.

  2. Picture of the Microsoft sign in page with an example sou email input into the text box.

  3. If you have not already logged into Okta, you will be redirected to the login screen as shown below.

    Picture of the Okta Sign in page in which you shall be directed to if not already so on your browser. There is an example username as well that you can input to continue on your SOU account

  4. After logging in (or if you've already logged in), you should be taken to Office365.  Click a link to one of the online Microsoft Office apps to begin using it within your web browser.

  5. To install the latest Microsoft Office applications on your Mac or Windows computer, click on the Install Office button in the top-right corner of the screen. 

  6. Picture of the installation page link found on the home page for microsoft's 365 cloud page which is located at the top right of the page usually

  7. You should get a drop-down menu that you shall want to select the Install Microsoft 365 apps button.

  8.  Picture of the Install and more dropdown menu with the Install Microsoft 365 apps button highlighted immediately under that
  9. This should take you to a different page where you can find the Install Office button to continue on your journey. The download may take a while depending on your connection speed. After installing the apps on your computer, just sign in with your SOU email address when prompted during first launch.
  10. Picture of the Apps and Devices branch which has an install office button that is highlighted with a selection for languages and version of office
Note

There is another way to get to that screen that you can utilize. If you add your Office 365 app to your Okta Dashboard, then click on the Bento Menu on the top left of the page (usually,) and finally click on the Microsoft 365 link you should be able to start on point 5 of this tutorial.

Picture of the Bento menu that is usually located at the top left of the Microsoft My Apps page. After you click that you shall see a menu pop up and a link that is titled Microsoft 365 which is highlighted to click on

 

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