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 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 Officefrom 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.
- Office 365 and One Drive Frequently Asked Questions
- Sharing a file/folder in OneDrive/Office 365
- Syncing to a share drive, OneDrive settings and freeing up space
- Verifying your access to a departmental shared drive
- Invalid characters not allowed when uploading to OneDrive
- Restrictions and Limitations in OneDrive
- Getting started with OneDrive on your PC
- Saving space on your laptop using Files on Demand
- Office 365 documentation/tutorials
Excel
- Combining text from 2 columns using Excel
- Differences between Excel online (Office 365) and the Excel desktop version
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:
- What’s new in Windows 11
- Features and Tips of Windows 11
- Using the taskbar in Windows 11
- Windows 11 support