If there is a popular office automation tool that is used by all kinds of users, that is Microsoft Office 365 . It does not matter whether we are students, professionals or simple users of a computer, surely we will know this complete package that includes applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher and Access.
Each program belonging to Microsoft Office 365 is different and will be of great help to us for different types of tasks, be it writing a document, organizing our email or presenting slides, we will always find the necessary tool within this package.
Microsoft Office 365 differs from the normal version in that we can access all programs in real time from any device that has Internet access. In addition, it is compatible with both Windows and Mac computers.
Save money by buying Office 365 with friends
The main problem that Microsoft Office packages have is that they are paid , so free alternatives such as OnlyOffice or LibreOffice end up being the option chosen if we cannot afford the Microsoft option.
But perhaps, what they will not know much, is that there is an economic and legal option to have a copy of Office, thanks to the fact that we can share it with up to five other people.
The price of Office 365 for non-professional users varies depending on the package we want to purchase:
- Office 365 Personal : costs 69 euros / year. With this option we have access to all the programs, plus additional services (such as 1 TB of storage in OneDrive). It is only available for a single user.
- Office 365 Home : this option is exactly the same as the personal one, but it costs 99 euros / year. The main difference is that, in this case, we can share it with 6 people.
- Home and Students : Very similar to Personal, but in this case Outlook is not included. Its price is 149 euros under a single payment.
Taking into account the different options to buy Office 365, we see that the Home option is compatible with up to 6 users, so that we can acquire a license and share it with five more friends. In this way, we can have our Office package from just 16.5 euros a year , just over 1.37 euros a month.
We also have the option to pay Office 365 Home monthly, for 10 euros / month, but this way it is more expensive and it is rare that we only need to use it for a short period of time.
Buy and share Office 365 Home
If we like the idea of having Office 365 Home annually with up to five friends, we should only access the Microsoft website or any other online store such as Amazon or PcComponentes, where we can possibly find it even cheaper.
Once we have purchased our copy of Office 365 Home we must share it with our friends. To do this, we must enter this link with email and password that we used when installing our copy. Later we access the option ” Office 365 shared resource “. From here, we must click on “Share the benefits of the subscription”. Now we only have to add each email of each of our five friends with whom we want to share them.
After you have sent the invitation to each friend, each will receive an invitation in their email account. Each invitation will be marked as pending until each friend accepts it . In case we have made a mistake with the email or we want to change our friend, it is possible to delete the invitation sent. To do this, we must click on the same page on the “Remove” option . Once done, we can send a new invitation to someone else.
