Microsoft provides Microsoft Office 365 to UC Irvine students at no cost thanks to a staff campus agreement program. This agreement allows Microsoft to provide current students with the latest version of full Microsoft Office for their personally-owned computers, smartphones, and tablets and 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage. When your affiliation with the university ends, you must purchase Office to continue using the software.
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Create your Microsoft account
You will create a special Microsoft account to obtain the software. OIT’s involvement in the process is merely to link the special Microsoft account to your UCI email. The software and the download mechanism are provided by Microsoft and may be changed at Microsoft’s discretion.
Note: You must uninstall previous versions of Office before installing.
- Select this link and enter your email in the format UCInetID@personalmicrosoftsoftware.uci.edu. Email sent to this address will forward to your UCInetID@uci.edu email account.
- Select I'm a student
3. Fill out the form with your information.
4. Check your email. A verification code will be sent to your UCI email account. Make sure to enter this code into the form.
The following step must be done on the computer you will install Office on.
5. Follow the instructions in the email to set up your Microsoft account with your date of birth and a unique password.
Downloading and installing Microsoft Office 365
The following steps must be done on the computer you will install Office on.
- Log out of any Microsoft accounts on your computer.
- Log in to https://office.com and sign in with your UCInetID@personalmicrosoftsoftware.uci.edu Microsoft account.
3. Select Install Office and then click Office 365 apps.
4. Follow Microsoft's instructions to complete the installation.