MS Office: Steps to Install and Use it Most Conveniently

Author: Matt White

Be it your annual report or the presentation you are going to give in the next board meeting, it has always been the applications of MS Office that has come to your aid. It would be quite inconvenient rather inefficient to handle documents as smoothly and efficiently on your PC without MS Office. Now if a software package is that much important to a user, it must be very handy to know about it and learn how to install its setup file. We are just about to do so in the following paragraphs.

MS Office: What?

For the minority who are unaware of what MS Office really is, MS Office is an office suite of applications, services and servers, which was developed by Microsoft. Announced first in 1988 by Bill Gates, the first version of MS Office only contained three applications namely- Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office Setup and Microsoft PowerPoint. Gradually over the years the applications have become a lot similar to each other in terms of shared features such as spellchecker and grammar checker etc.

How to easily install MS Office setup?

There can be many ways in which one can install MS Office Setup in one’s PC. But let us stick to the one that is the easiest, most convenient and most correct way, by buying it. Following are the steps you need to follow orderly to ensure successful installation of the setup file on your desktop.

  • First thing you are required to do is to make a retail purchase of Microsoft Office or buy the product online.
  • You will get an office product key. In case of a retail purchase it can be found on a card inside the pack. Online buyers can obtain their key in their confirmation email or Microsoft Account page. Keep the product key handy.
  • Visit the MS Office Setup page by opening office.com/setup in your internet browser.
  • Next you need to sign up with your Microsoft Account. In case you don’t have one you can always create one for free. The benefit that you obtain is that Office will be tied with your Microsoft Account which will allow successful download in the future without entering the key. You can always start download in the future by visiting office.com/myaccount.