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How to Install and Activate Microsoft Office 2016 and 2017 for Free

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This was tested and installed in a lab MacOS and i would love to share the course and steps with you.
Note: This works on MacOs and Windows too and the version of office can be updated to Microsoft Office 2017.

Part A: The installer can be downloaded at this time from the following link

Extract the Zip file after download by simply clicking on it for Mac users and Windows user can simply use 7Zip. If this link does not work, simply request for the installer in the comment, I hope i will still find them 🙂

Click on Microsoft 2016 installer with the .pkg extension
Click next by following the prompts and select english or your desired language as shown below.
Finally click on Install. This usually takes a while.
After this step is completed, follow the next steps.

Part B: Select the Microsoft Office 2016 installer with the .dmg extension as shown below
Double click on it and this will extract a .pkg extension which we will use in activating the Microsoft Office 2016

which will prompt this window below. Click on the .pkg extension and install.
Note: This will require an Administrative Password to run it.

After this is done, you will have Office packages installed on you System.

Note: When Office first opens up, it should you a window to sign-in, kindly ignore this by skipping it.

Open Microsoft word and apply update as shown below

Click on install and the next screen below is prompted
Note: This will require your Administrators Privilege to have the Updates installed

After this is completed, a new AutoUpdate windows is opened and this will prompt you to select from any of these categories below. I will go with the Automatic Option. as shown below

This will display a list of available updates, select all and click on install as shown below.

Just follow the prompts and finish up. That is it 🙂

Source: TechTutorials EL

Watch the video below for Microsoft Office 2018 and Subscribe
This is an older version and if you wish to run the new version of Microsoft Office 2018, please follow this link link BELOW
Note: This i haven’t test in my lab yet. Visit TechTutorials EL
– Also for Microsoft Office 2013, see LINK
– For Microsoft Office 2016 Installation for free. see download link & source

OffCAT Introduction

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With OffCAT, you can take the following actions to help you detect problems with your Office programs:

  1. Scan and fix known issues in Office programs
  2. Determine if your Office program is up-to-date
  3. Review detailed configuration information for Windows, hardware, the user, the Office and scanned program installation, the registry, and much more
  4. Send feedback to the OffCAT team
  5. Follow the OffCAT team on Twitter @MS_OffCAT

There are many other features and capabilities available in OffCAT. They are discussed in detail in the full version of the OffCAT ReadMe from the Microsoft Download Center.
Getting Started
This section of the document is intended to get OffCAT installed in the shortest amount of time, show you how to scan an Office program with OffCAT, and to help you find solutions to issues identified in the scan.
System Requirements for OffCAT
Before you install or use OffCAT, make sure that your computer meets the following system requirements.

  1. Supported operating systems:
  2. Windows 10
  3. Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
  4. Windows 7
  5. Windows Vista Service Pack 2
  6. Windows Server 2008
  7. Windows Server 2008 R2
  8. Windows Server 2012
  9. Windows Server 2012 R2
  10. Supported Microsoft Office versions:
  11. Microsoft Office 2016 (32-bit or 64-bit) (Click-to-run or MSI installs)
  12. Microsoft Office 2013 (32-bit or 64-bit) (Click-to-run or MSI installs)
  13. Microsoft Office 2010 (32-bit or 64-bit, MSI installs only)
  14. Microsoft Office 2007
  15. Minimum version of the Microsoft .NET Framework:
  16. Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.5

Install OffCAT
Once you have met all of the system requirements, it is time to install OffCAT using the following steps.
Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, or Windows Vista
1. Start the OffCAT installation by either clicking Run when prompted by the Microsoft Download Center or by double-clicking OffCAT.msi (that you downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center).
2. Click Next in the ‘Welcome’ dialog box of setup.

See download links:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=36852 
https://techdirectarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/offcat-v2.2-readme-basic-version.docx
offcat-v2.2-readme-basic-versionDownload