Do we want to buy the regular license to use Word, Excel and Powerpoint? Let’s see together all the methods to buy Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office programs are indispensable on any modern PC: no one can very well replace the tools and flexibility offered by Word, Excel, and PowerPoint when dealing with office documents or documents intended for study. If until now we had “satisfied” with illegal copies of Office caught on the net (with a lot of cracks and viruses attached), now is the right time to buy your own copy of Office or subscribe to the subscription that best suits our needs.
In the following guide, we will show you how to buy Office online, with an eye to saving: since the expense to be incurred can be high in some cases, we will immediately show you the methods that allow you to save something and always get the latest functions, without giving up the power of a powerful office suite like Office.
Purchase a Microsoft 365 license
For those who want to get original and always updated Office on their PC, we recommend focusing on the subscription to Microsoft 365, which brings Office to our PC for a very low amount every month, as well as being shared with other members belonging to the same family (no one forbids to add friends or colleagues).
The cheapest subscription is Microsoft 365 Personal, which at a price of € 7 per month allows you to install the main Office apps on all compatible devices, using a single Microsoft account and benefiting from 1 TB of space on OneDrive (the cloud of Microsoft also integrated into Windows 10 and Windows 11).
If we want other members of our family to use Office or share it with other people, we can subscribe to the Microsoft 365 Family subscription, which at a cost of € 10 per month allows you to divide the benefits seen with the previous subscription with a maximum of 6 Microsoft accounts, which will be able to download Office on their PCs and devices at no additional cost. Microsoft accounts enabled will be independent and are not linked in any way, other than to share the Family subscription (no common space or access to confidential documents of your account).
Download Office through Microsoft 365
To be able to purchase a subscription to Microsoft 365, you must have a Microsoft account and a valid payment method: PayPal is also fine as a payment method, so as to avoid the direct use of a credit card or prepaid card. If we have everything we need, open the Manage Microsoft payments page, log in with the Microsoft account, click on Add a new payment method at the bottom and choose the payment method to use (PayPal for example, but they are available even bills on mobile devices).
After adding the preferred payment method, we choose one of the subscriptions seen in the chapter above, press the button to start the subscription, and confirm the payment method to be used; if we have chosen Microsoft 365 Family we will be entitled to a 30-day free trial, with no obligation to renew (just remove the automatic renewal).
After payment, we can download our copy of Office on a PC or Mac by opening the Services and subscriptions page, and clicking on the item Install the premium Office apps; alternatively, we can also use the direct link to generate our custom installer.
At the end of the download of the installer, double-click on it, accept the license terms, and wait for the end of the installation. At the next start, just confirm the Microsoft account to immediately unlock all the advanced functions of Office.
If we have shared the account with other people, all they have to do is repeat the steps for downloading and downloading Office, taking their Microsoft account to the Office download page.
Other ways to buy Office
Another valid method to buy Office on a Windows PC involves using the Microsoft Store, where you can immediately find Microsoft 365 subscriptions by searching the upper search bar for Office.
Conclusions
With all these effective methods we can buy Office online and save a lot, abandoning computer piracy forever (really useless now): with € 7 a month we have Office always updated and always available, virus-free and synchronized with an online cloud space (to save copies of documents or enable automatic saving ).
If we focus on the Family subscription we can “give” Office to 5 other people, who will be able to use their Microsoft accounts to download Office and use all the functions; these functions will obviously remain active as long as we pay the subscription (in fact only one subscription for 6 Microsoft Office-enabled accounts).
Want a subscription-free, lifetime copy of Office Retail? It is worthwhile to bet on multi-licenses sold on Amazon for less than € 20, so as to save a lot of money and still have an Office license that is valid forever.
