Installing Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac is available online to students with an active HuskyID at Bloomsburg University. Office 2016 for Mac can be downloaded by visiting your BU student e-mail account. To begin, do the following: 1.
- When you open Word, for example, click your initials in File Options to see your account email, and your connected services.
- Click Open to see where you can open files. For example, you automatically have access to OneDrive to sync your files to your computer.
- Click + to add a new service. You can map to a SharePoint drive by the SharePoint AOS URL, for example:
https://mycompany.com/alfresco/aos/
- You can then browse your SkyVault files in the same way that Windows users can access them from Windows Explorer.
All you need is a Microsoft account and a data connection. Head to ‘the official Office website in your browser of choice, enter your login credentials and choose ‘Microsoft Word’. Choose below for details on how to download. For Students — Students may use: Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus, the online distribution of Microsoft Office for PC, Mac, iPad, and Windows and Android phones. Microsoft Windows 10 for Education. This product is offered free of charge by the “OnTheHub”. Microsoft office for mac is a completely different version from the office for windows because it is a version which is totally based on the Microsoft Office productivity suite for mac os x. This Microsoft office for mac is one of the best and successors of 2011 and it is followed by the Microsoft office for mac of 2007.
Alternatively, for earlier versions of Office, Microsoft Document Connection can be used to access SkyVault files. You'll find it with the rest of your Microsoft Office apps in your Applications folder.- If you are using Microsoft Office 2016, and do not have OneDrive, see Microsoft OneDrive for information about how to enable this.
- If you are using earlier versions of Office, you can set up Microsoft Document Connection.
Click Document Connection on the Mac toolbar then Preferences.
- Select Enable Basic authentication then close the Preferences screen.
- Click Add Location in Document Connection then Connect to a SharePoint site.
- Enter the SkyVault address then click Connect.
To connect with SkyVault the URL needs to end in '/alfresco/aos', so if your SkyVault address is
https://mycompany.com
then you'd enter
https://mycompany.com/alfresco/aos/
You can enter URLs that are specific to a site, folder, or file, for example, https://mycompany.com/alfresco/aos/Sites/sitename/documentLibrary/foldername/filename.- Site or folder-specific URL - browse through the site or folder to find the file you want
- File-specific URL - open the file directly
- Enter your SkyVault User name and Password and click Connect.Note: Click Continue if you see a further message about encrypted passwords.
This connection is remembered by Document Connection for future use.
You'll now see all the folders at the top level of your SkyVault repository, and you can drill-down through sites to all your files.
You can use the Document Connector to read, add, and check files in and out, and even drag and drop them from your desktop or from Finder.
For Apple enthusiasts who want to use Microsoft’s Office software on a Mac, iPad, or iPhone, you can easily download the full Office 365 bundle, or any of its individual apps, from the Mac App Store. The Office 365 bundle includes six apps: Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, and Word, each of which can also be downloaded individually. There is a free one-month trial for Office 365, after which the subscription is $69.99 a year, or $6.99 a month. If you already have an Office 365 subscription, you can use it here. As part of the subscription software updates are applied automatically as they’re rolled out.
Here are direct links to the apps in the Mac App Store.
In a press release from Apple, VP Phil Schiller said, “Apple and Microsoft have worked together to bring great Office productivity to Mac users from the very beginning. Now, with Office 365 on the Mac App Store, it’s easier than ever to get the latest and best version of Office 365 for Mac, iPad and iPhone.”
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