Type: Site license
End date: Renewed Annually
Personal licence: Not applicable

Licence details

The software will be licensed for the full duration of student's course. Once the student has left the University, the Microsoft Office ProPlus subscription will end.

To ensure continuous validation, students must remember to access their Office365 mailbox at least once every month.

When the student is no longer registered with the University, the office suite will enter a state of reduced functionality until a license is purchased.

When the license expires, students retain read-only access to their Microsoft Office files.

Usage

Regisitered students are entitled to run Microsoft Student Advantage on their own personal machines, on or off campus.

Each subscription license will allow eligible students to run Office on up to five machines being Mac or PC and run Office Mobile for Android or Office Mobile for iPhone on up to 5 mobile devices without any additional cost.

Office365 ProPlus - How to install on Windows

If you have any problems downloading or installing this software, please contact help@strath.ac.uk.

A huge variety of information is available, including overviews and FAQs on the Microsoft homepage.

No training is currently available for Microsoft Office.

Student

Free to download for registered students on personally owned machines.

Minimum system requirements

• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows 8
• Windows 10

32-bit Office can be installed on 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems. However 64-bit Office can only be installed on 64-bit operating system.

To find out if you have 32-bit or 64-bit Windows, click the start button, right-click Computer then click Properties, then under System Type you should see either 32-bit or 64-bit operating system.

Computer and processor 

1 GHZ or faster x86 or 64-bit processor with SSE2 instruction set.

Memory

1 GB RAM (32-bit)  2 GB RAM (64-bit) recommended for graphics features,  Outlook Instant Search, and certain advanced functionality.

Disk space

3 gigabytes (GB)

Monitor resolution

1024 x 768

For Office Mobile for iPhone/iPod Touch:

• iPhone 4
• iPhone 5
• iPhone 5s
• iPod Touch 5th generation
• iPad users can download the iPhone version, however, the resolution would be as detailed as applications developed for iPhone

For Office Mobile for Android Phones:

• All devices above must be running iOS 6.1 minimum
• Android phones running OS 4.0 or greater (* not compatible with some Android devices that are not a phone)
• Android touch-enabled smartphones only