Microsoft Office

If you must use Microsoft Office there is an alternative. Microsoft 365. This is Microsoft's version of Google Docs. An online Microsoft platform. You can utilize the Educator version for NO cost. It does not, however, have Publisher. You can subscribe to the pro version to gain access to Publisher and any saved fonts you may have access to. You would be responsible for the cost associated. Pricing options can be seen HERE.

Setting Up Your 365 Account

• Visit https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office.

• Enter your dutchmen.us email address and select Get Started

• Follow the prompts to create your account

• Office 365 Training

Microsoft Office and Google Drive

They work together better than you think! You can now edit office documents in Drive without converting them. Documents with the extension .docx can be edited and kept in their office format.

You can also convert office documents and even pdfs to Google documents. You can upload entire folders to convert to make it quick and easy.

Need a document to be in the office format? No problem! You can download Google docs in office format!

• Edit Office Docs in Drive

• Convert Office Docs to Google Docs

• Download Google Docs as Office Docs

• Use Drive File Stream on Your Desktop

File Stream is already installed so you just have to sign in with your dutchmen account.

Libreoffice

LibreOffice is a free and open-source office suite, a project of The Document Foundation. It was forked in 2010 from OpenOffice.org, which was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice. This is already installed on your desktop.