How to get/activate Microsoft Office for FREE

Summary

As a Lakeland student or employee, you have access to all Microsoft Office 365 applications which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more. You can install these apps on up to five devices.

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Microsoft Office 365 is Free for Lakeland Students and Employees


As a Lakeland student, you have access to all Microsoft Office 365 applications which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more. You can install these apps on up to five devices.

Step 2 – From the myLakeland home page, click the Microsoft O365 button found on the icon bar near the top of the page.

Office 360 button on myLakeland

 

Step 2 – A new page opens. On this page are links to the web browser versions of the Microsoft Office 365 apps. Click the Install Apps button at the top-right corner of the screen.

Install Apps button

 

A new page will open. Included on this page is information about your Microsoft account through Lakeland.

Step 4 – Click the Install Office button and follow the installation steps.

Install Office button

Please note, if you have an existing Microsoft account, you may need to log out of that account by visiting portal.office.com and logging out of your personal or work accounts.

 

Signing-In to Your Microsoft Account

 

1. Go to portal.office.com.

2. Enter your Lakeland student or employee email address and click Next.
Image of Microsoft Sign in screen with blue Next button

3. Enter your myLakeland password and click Sign In.
Image of Enter password field and blue Sign in screen

4. Use any Office application directly from your web browser or choose to install it on up to 5 of your personal devices by clicking Install Office and then choose Install Microsoft 365 Apps.
Image of red rectangle around Install Office

After installing or if you already have an Office product installed, follow these steps to activate.

  1. Open Word (or any other MS product).
  2. Click on Sign In.
  3. Enter your myLakelandUserName@lakelandcc.edu then click Next.
    • (Note: If your username contains a number but your email address does not you still need to enter the number to activate Office.)
  4. Enter your myLakeland password. Then, click Sign In.
  5. Click Yes to use this account everywhere on your device.
  6. After a moment, you’ll be notified that the account was added successfully. Click Done.
  7. You will be notified the product has been activated. Click OK, then close and reopen Word.

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Article ID: 160196
Created
Thu 2/1/24 12:46 PM
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Thu 9/10/26 1:13 PM