How to share an Office 365 Home subscription with others

Office 365 Home offers the latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher and Access applications. You can share your Office 365 Home subscription with 5 other people by inviting them to join your subscription.

Office 365 Home offers the latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher and Access applications. You can share your Office 365 Home subscription with 5 other people by inviting them to join your subscription. In this tutorial, TipsMake.com will show you how to share your Office 365 Home subscription with others.

Share your Office 365 Home subscription via email or link

Step 1 : First of all, activate the web browser and visit the Microsoft account page.

Step 2 : Sign in with the Microsoft account you used to buy or sign up for Office 365.

Step 3 : At the top of the page, you will see the Sharing tab . Please select it.

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Select the Sharing tab

NOTE : If the Sharing tab is not displayed, it may be because you have not signed up for Office 365 Home yet or you are trying to share an Office 365 subscription that someone shared with you!

Step 4 : In the Share Office with your household section , click the Start sharing button .

NOTE : Without the Start sharing button, you don't have an Office 365 subscription. Office 365 Personal cannot be shared with others.

Step 5 : Click the Start sharing button to display Share Office with two options: Invite via email and Invite via link .

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2 options Invite via email and Invite via link

The Invite via email option allows you to send an Office 365 invitation to the email address of the person you want to share Office 365. Use the Invite via link option if you don't know the email addresses of others.

Remember, the people you want to share with your Office 365 subscription should have a Microsoft account and use the same way to sign in to Office 365. If not, they need to create one.

Step 6 : To invite a person via email, enter his or her email address (Microsoft account that person wants to use with an Office 365 subscription), then click the Invite button to send an email containing the invitation.

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Click the Invite button to send the email containing the invitation

Similarly, to invite someone via the link, click the Invite via link option , copy the sharing link displayed on the screen, and then send that link via email, SMS or WhatsApp.

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Copy the sharing link displayed on the screen

Step 7 : The person you shared the email with or the link will have to click the link (if you shared via the link) or click the Accept button (when shared via email).

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Click the Accept button

Step 8 : Clicking on the link or Accept button will open You're invited Office page . Click the Get started button .

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Click the Get started button

Step 9 : Click the Get started button to enter the login screen. Sign in with the same Microsoft account where you received the invitation. If you receive an invitation via a link, be sure to sign in with your Microsoft account.

Step 10 : You will now be redirected to the Office 365 Home page.

To install Office 365, click the Install Office link, click the Install button when you see a pop-up window to download the web setup, run the same, then follow the simple instructions to download and install it. put Office 365 on PC.

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Click the Install Office link

If Office 365 is already installed on your PC, simply log in with the Microsoft account email address you received the invitation to.

Stop sharing an Office 365 subscription

For any reason, you want to stop sharing Office 365 with one person, complete the steps below.

Step 1 : Go to the Sharing page and log in with the same Microsoft account that you used to sign up for Office 365.

Step 2 : On the Sharing tab, in the Other people section (scroll down to the bottom of the page), click the Stop sharing link next to the email address.

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Click the Stop sharing link next to the email address
Update 16 March 2020
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