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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 28, 2017 19:33:15 GMT
I now have two laptops in the house requiring Office. Office 365 looks the best bet.
Unfortunately both machines are set up with different MS accounts.
Before I pay money, is sharing Office 365 between multiple MS accounts possible (I believe so!) but does it work and has anyone had any issues doing so?
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 28, 2017 19:37:48 GMT
If I've understood the question, then yes. I have the master account for my Office 365 licence, but for others to use it they need their own MS account. You link them to your account by sending them an email invite, which they can then use to create an MS account, or presumably if they already have an MS account, you'd send the invite to the email address attached to that account. Office 365 home allows you up to five accounts, but the initial one set up with the billing binds the others to it.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 28, 2017 19:38:32 GMT
Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 28, 2017 19:43:41 GMT
Ignoring Ralph's "Helpful" intervention....
Laptop 1 is Liz's
Laptop 2 is Jonathan's, but set up using my MS account because he doesn't have one because he is 10!
If I took out an Office 365 sub as me and installed it on Laptop 2 would Jonathan be able to use it?
If I shared it with Liz would she be able to use it?
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 28, 2017 20:02:22 GMT
Yes I think so. What I did was: sign up for 365 on my desktop PC, creating an MS account using my gmail address. From the account settings page in 365 I sent an invite to Mrs P to share my licence. The email she got prompted her to create an MS account, which then gave her a onedrive and access to installing Office on her laptop. So she uses Office through her own MS account independently of me using it on this PC through mine.
She then also uses Office on her ipad and phone and accesses her onedrive on those.
The only potential problem I could imagine is if Jonathan has his own login for the actual laptop and you set it up with a different one. I'm not sure what it would do then because none of my devices use multiple logins, they all just use the default.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 28, 2017 20:13:49 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 28, 2017 20:37:30 GMT
Blimey they make that hard work don't they.
Okay - yes it does work.
I added a local account to Mrs P's laptop without an email address and logged into it using that, and Office works fine. I tried Word and Excel and saved files out - no messages about trial versions or limitations.
Adding an account needed the Win 10 Enterprise method on the support page you linked - it doesn't work the first way unless you use an email address.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 28, 2017 21:58:25 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 28, 2017 22:43:07 GMT
Yep, that one. I did a month trial and converted. Not sure on the limitations of that though, but it let me install office.
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