Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office is the standard office suite for the entire campus. These programs include Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, and One Note. You can use the online version of Office (see Office 365 below) or you can download and install the software on up to 5 computers and 5 tablets. It’s free for Centre faculty, staff, and students.
If you already have a version of Microsoft Office installed, which is common for new computers, please follow the steps below to uninstall it before you try to install the latest version.
Uninstalling Office
Windows computers:
Click Start
Type Add or Remove Programs and click the icon when it appears
Select your existing version of MS Office from the list of installed software
Windows 10: Click the Uninstall button at the top of the window
Windows 11: Click the ellipsis to the right of the program and select Uninstall
MacOS computers:
Open Finder
Go to the Applications folder
Delete the Office Apps by dragging them to the trash can. Be sure to remove all of the apps; Word, Excel, Power Point, etc. Be sure to remove all of the apps; Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.
Install Microsoft Office
Log in to Centrenet using your Centre username and password. Example: firstname.lastname, not firstname.lastname@centre.edu
Click the Office365 icon on the CentreNet Launchpad
In the top, right corner of the window that opens, click your Profile picture or Initials
Click View Account from the menu
On the left hand side, click Office Apps
Click the Install Office button to download Office 365 on your computer
Once the file is downloaded, please open it to install Office
Office 365 and OneDrive
Microsoft’s has a cloud-based version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and One Note and you get 1TB of cloud storage (aka: OneDrive).
To access Office 365, log into CentreNet and click the Office 365 icon located on the CentreNet LaunchPad. You will be prompted to login using your Centre credentials.
Teams
View the Teams page for documentation.
Outlook
View the email page for information on Outlook.
Excel
Why won’t Excel let me view two documents at the same time?
Unlike Word, Excel doesn’t automatically open two different Excel files in the same window. This can be frustrating, especially if you are trying to compare data.
Here is a trick to get your Excel files to open in two different windows:
Open the first file in Excel and drag the window to the monitor where you want to view that file.
Hold down the Shift Key and click the Excel Taskbar icon (located at the bottom of your screen) to open a second instance of Excel.
Use File < Open to open the second file in that window
You can now arrange your windows so that you can view both files at the same time
Windows
All instruction computers, as well as new and re-issued employee computers, now have Windows 11, which means that a few things will look slightly different. If you are/were using “Classic Shell” – a program that was used on campus prior to Summer 2022 – the change will be more dramatic. Classic shell emulated the Windows XP interface, which was introduced in 2001, so as you can imagine, there have been a few changes over the last 20 years.
Check out the following resources on Windows 11: