Answered By: Paul Earp
Last Updated: Mar 11, 2025     Views: 22

Students have free access to Microsoft 365/Office 365 Education with an active student email account.
If you currently have the apps on your computer, please skip to step #5.

  1. Go to www.office.com, and sign into your Fortis account.

  2. On the Office 365 Dashboard, select Install Office (top right). Click the drop-down and Office 365 apps.

  3. This begins the Office installation.

    • If you see the prompt, “Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device?”, select Yes.

  4. The installation is complete when you see the phrase, You're all set! Office 365 is installed now.

  5. To activate your Office 365 account, open Word, sign in with your Fortis student email/password and complete the prompts.

Note: Your school provides 5 licenses of Microsoft 365 (Office365)

Additional Microsoft instructions are here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/download-and-install-or-reinstall-microsoft-365-or-office-2021-on-a-pc-or-mac-4414eaaf-0478-48be-9c42-23adc4716658

Another way to download is here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/download-office

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