Windows 10: How to Install Office 365 Pro Plus with the new Ribbon Interface on Windows 10

Microsoft has launched new versions of Office this fall, but not all of them are the same. If you are running Office 365 or purchased a new subscription, you will get the opportunity to experience a new interface that simplifies the Ribbon; first introduced in Office 2007. Microsoft still licenses a perpetual license for Office, called Office 2019. This is based on an earlier version of Office 365 with a frozen feature set, but won't include the new Ribbon user experience.


In this article we take a look at installing the new Office 365. For the purposes of this article, I will be installing from my Office 365 E3 subscription. Your options might be slightly different, but the steps are pretty much the same.


Step 1: Log into your Office 365 portal then click Install my software under 'Office software'





Step 2: This will take you to the installation page, listing all apps bundled with the edition you are installing. You can also choose advanced options.





Step 3: Users can choose their language and architecture (32 or 64 bit) if they want. Make sure any add in's you depend on are compatible with the 64 bit version of the suite. I will go with the 64 bit version because of its ability to harness more than 4 GBs of RAM, which is great for larger spreadsheets. You can then proceed to click install to begin the installation.





Step 4: Office will prompt you download and install a small 7 MB file. This is a click to run installer which will kick off setup. Go ahead and save the file.





Step 5: Launch the downloaded file from your downloads.





Step 6: Wait while Office setup begins.






Step 7: Office 365 does not provide any customization options, so, you cannot pick and choose which apps or features are installed. It will immediately jump into installation. Depending on the speed of your Internet, it can take sometime. On a 65 MB connection, I had the suite installed in 15 minutes. You can go ahead and do something else in the mean time while the suite installs.






Step 8: When its done, you will get a notification installation is complete.





Users will recognize the new Ribbon, which features a cleaner design with accented color title bars.





Things to keep in mind

Office 365 is a bit unique, which means, if it depends the existence of a traditional Windows Installer version Office or related application thats not from a subscription, it will halt the installation.


Thats what happened when I was installing the suite on my device:





This will require that you prepare to find and uninstall any such products. In my case, it was the free Skype for Business Basics. Since Office 365 Pro Plus would already include Skype, I removed it from Settings or Control Panel.




Thats it, let us know about your experience using the new Office in the comments.

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Unable to Activate Office 365 Pro Plus on Windows 10


Try accessing your Office 365 account using your student email .edu address. From there, you can download a click to run application (not the full installer version) that should automatically activate.

See screenshot below:

 

MIcrosoft 365 Pro Plus

Hi Bálint,

This shouldn't be an issue, unless you have a very limited storage space. Your system may perform poorly when it doesn't have enough space to store additional files. Check this support article for the steps on how to

Free up drive space in Windows 10.

Additionally, utility applications that comes with your Microsoft Office 365 Pro Plus installation may be running automatically when your system starts, thus, using up some of your system resources. I recommend that you start your system in a

clean boot state and see if the issue persists.

Also do check if reinstalling Microsoft Office 365 Pro Plus and your game applications can improve the situation.

Let me know how it goes.

 

Cortana & Office 365 Integration

We are trying to integrate Cortana with our Office 365 subscription, but it never works. Here are the steps we have done:

• Turned on Cortona in the Office 365 Admin portal
• We are using Windows 10 1703 – connected Office 365 service to Cortana

Did the same on windows 10 mobile with no luck, Cortana says its connected to Office 365, but sees no data and we are getting zero errors

We went rough office 365 support first and tried all fo their suggestions, they kicked us over to Windows support which is currently closed.

We are on v1703 with all updates in place, it does not work on Windows 10 desktop or mobile

any ideas? I can give you all steps 365 support had us run through if that will be helpful

Thank you

Doug