Microsoft Office

Enhance your productivity with Microsoft Office—the essential suite of tools for effective work and seamless collaboration.

Microsoft Office is a comprehensive suite of productivity applications that empowers users to efficiently handle tasks, collaborate seamlessly, and unleash their creativity.

With essential tools like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, you can effortlessly create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and visually engaging presentations. Outlook keeps you organized and connected with its powerful email management capabilities and integrated calendar. Furthermore, Office provides powerful collaboration features, allowing multiple users to work simultaneously on documents, whether they are located in the same office or across the globe.


Features

Microsoft Office is a powerful suite of applications that offers a wide range of features to enhance productivity, collaboration, and creativity. Here’s a brief list highlighting some of the key features:

  • Word: Create and edit professional documents, reports, and resumes with advanced formatting and editing tools
  • Excel: Analyze data, create spreadsheets, and perform complex calculations with formulas and functions
  • PowerPoint: Design visually stunning presentations with multimedia elements, animations, and slide transitions
  • Outlook: Manage emails, appointments, and tasks efficiently, and stay organized with a built-in calendar and reminders
  • OneNote: Capture and organize your ideas, notes, and research in a digital notebook.
  • Access: Build and manage databases to store and manipulate large amounts of data

With these robust features, Microsoft Office empowers individuals and organizations to accomplish tasks efficiently, communicate effectively, and bring their ideas to life.

Considerations

  • UBC does not offer Microsoft Office licenses for iOS or Android devices
  • UBC does not offer Office 365 licenses

Arts ISIT Resources

Arts ISIT will install Microsoft products on UBC-owned computers (Mac and Windows) free of charge. Products include:

  • Microsoft Office
    • Word
    • Excel
    • Powerpoint
    • OneNote
  • Microsoft Visio (Windows only)
  • Microsoft Project (Windows only)

Please note that if you require Microsoft products on your UBC computer, you will need to get in touch with Arts ISIT to install the software, as there is no self-service option available due to the license agreement.

For non-UBC owned computers, you may be eligible for the Home Use Program, allowing you to subscribe to Office 365 with a 30% discount.

All UBC Arts faculty and staff with FASmail accounts are eligible for Microsoft’s Software Assurance Home Use Program (HUP). This program enables you to obtain a licensed copy of most Microsoft Office applications to install and use on your non-UBC owned computer. If you apply for the HUP, you can continue to use the software even when you are no longer a UBC employee. Unlike the Windows OS, software purchased through HUP does not need to constantly connect to the UBC Microsoft Activation Server for licence validation. Once you have purchased these programs, they are permanently available for your personal use.

Features

  • Available to all UBC employees with a FASmail account
  • Microsoft Office 365 subscription with 30% off

Registering for Home Use Program

  1. Go to to the Home Use Program website
  2. Enter your UBC email address (emails ending in @ubc.ca or @mail.ubc.ca only).
  3. Click Submit.
  4. Check your inbox for a email from Microsoft, with a link to subscribe to Office 365 with 30% discount

Consultations

If you would like further support on Microsoft Office, please connect with us to learn more about the tool and its capabilities.


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