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Office 365 for business on personal Mac

Anonymous
2021-02-27T06:27:23+00:00

Hello.

I have a Office 365 subscription through my work. They have allowed us to put remaining licenses on our personal devices. When I had a PC, I was able to login to my personal Microsoft account but use the work license for Office products. I would not see the files attached to the Office 365 account. 

When I downloaded Word on my ipad and mac, I see recent files from the Office 365 business account. Is there a way to make this work similar to the mac? I don't want my work files intermingling with my personal files.

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  1. Jim G 134K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2021-02-28T02:26:08+00:00

    Hi roku87

    In Outlook, you can create profiles. These are more discreet than accounts. Just be aware that calendar reminders will fire only for accounts in the active profile.

    There is an app that lets you set the default Profile for Outlook to use. Here’s how to find it:

    In the Applications folder, right-click on Microsoft Outlook.app

    From the pop-up menu choose Show Package Contents

    Open the Contents folder

    Open the Shared Support folder

    Drag the Outlook Profile Manager.app icon to your dock

    Now you can run Outlook Profile Manager.app to add, remove, and set the default profile. 

    Because you are signing into your company's account, you will see the files on OneDrive and SharePoint for your company. Your option in this case is to save locally instead of on your company's cloud.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-02-27T07:17:52+00:00

    Hi Roku,

    Generally, when you already activate the Office apps on your device, we can sign into with different Office accounts (on Mac, we can connect the different cloud services but can sign-in only with one account) even though they don’t have license. And when you add the Office accounts to the Office apps, the cloud services of Office account such as OneDrive/SharePoint will be connected automatically.

    So, on the recent tab, the files that are accessed recently will be listed in the Office apps either you access them in the browser or different devices. If you are looking to disable the list of your work files in the Recent tab on Mac, I am sorry to convey that it’s not possible to disable in Office apps on Mac as we can do in Office apps on Windows.

    I also request you to add your idea in the Word for Mac UserVoice as related team can take into consideration about it.

    Best Regards,

    Chitrahaas

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