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I recently purchased a new HP Victus laptop that comes with a one-year free subscription to Office 365. However, I noticed that only Office 2024 is installed, and I cannot find Office 365. Could you please guide me on how to activate and use the Office 365 subscription?
Processes in Microsoft 365 for setting up Office apps, redeeming product keys, and activating licenses.
Thank you for the screenshot, click the 'Switch Licence' button on that window, are you able to switch to the pre-installed Microsoft 365 version?
If that is a new device, that was indicated to come with a 1 year free subscription to Microsoft 365, how was Office 2024 installed on that device, did you install that yourself?
Open Word, then go to File - Account, please provide a screenshot of that window, and if your Email appears in the screenshot, please hide your Email address.
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You activate any "free" 1yr pers o365 as per HP instructions as its not an MS process, generaly it means starting Office frome a desktop shortcut then following the prompts to use/create an MS Account associated with o365.
Then
O365/Office when installed under a Win user admin account, and run from that admin account, auto logs in when the PC is started. There is no separate login for any component.
Win search for Word > Resulting shortcut > Rt click > Pin to task bar > start Word from that shortcut (hover mouse over the shortcut gives access to the 10 most recent docs)
Same for other core components.
Start eg Word open an old doc via recents/search
Rarely any need to access OneDrive itself.
When I try to switch the license, it is showing your account has multiple office products ands we select best one for you and there is no switch license there and only home product option is available.
Thank you for your answer. Here is the screenshot you requitred.