Installing Office 2016 on multiple computers.

Question

Original Title:Lester

Can a single PC version of MS Office Home & Student be installed on my Laptop as well as a HP desktop that I have.

Alternatively is Excel available to purchase by itself.

Answer 1

Hi,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

I am sorry to inform you that, single PC version of MS Office Home & Student cannot be installed on Laptop as well as on desktop.

You may click on the following link to know more about Office 2016 stand alone.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msin/en\_GB/list/Office-stand-alone-products/categoryID.66703200

I hope the above suggestion helps. If you need further assistance, get back to us and we will be glad to assist you.

Thank you.

Answer 2

The link you provide gives no information about the stand alone issue.  It is only for purchasing the product.

Answer 3

Hi,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

I would like to know how Office was installed on the computer for the first time. Let us try to log into the Microsoft Account www.office.com/myaccount with the registered user name and password and check.

Let us refer to the following article which discusses similar issue and check if it helps.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Download-and-install-or-reinstall-Office-365-Office-2016-or-Office-2013-on-your-PC-7a28382b-7015-4b5a-9d9b-650d15742c95?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Hope this information helps you. Please let us know if you need additional information.

Thank you.

Answer 4

I had originally bought and installed this version for a newly purchased Dell laptop; unfortunately it had hardware issues and was returned.  I did completely reset the Dell.  I now have a new Toshiba laptop I would like to install this office 2016 onto; can I just load it on this one?