How to Sign Up For Office365 in 5 Easy Steps!
Office365 is a subscription based web service offered by Microsoft whereby users of the Microsoft Office suite of products as well as other Microsoft services can use Microsoft Office apps on their smart devices and computers. You also get storage space on Microsoft’s “One Drive”, as well as 60 Skype minutes every month that you can use to call phone numbers directly from Skype! A personal account only costs $6.99 per month, and the folks at Microsoft even give you the first month on the house!
Here’s how you can sign up:
Step One: Go to Products.microsoft.com
The first thing you need to do is go to this website: http://products.office.com/en-us/try
Once you’re there, you should be seeing a webpage that looks something like this:
Click on whichever option suits your needs, the signup process is the same!
Step Two: Click on Sign up
You will now be redirected to a page that looks like this:
If you have a Microsoft account, skip all the steps all the way to the very last one. If you don’t, click on “Sign up now”!
Step Three: Enter your information
After you’ve clicked “Sign up now” you will be taken to a page with this form on it:
Simply enter the information in the spaces given. Once you’re done, click on “Continue”!
Step Four: Verify your account
You should now be seeing this page:
Basically all you need to do in this step is check your email! In your inbox you’ll see an email like this:
Click on the blue “verify” button and you’ll be taken to this page:
Congratulations! You now have a Microsoft account. Now click on “OK”.
Step Five: Enter your billing information
You’re now looking at a page like this:
All you need to do now is enter your billing information, i.e. credit card number, card holders name, the three digit security number on the back, etc. Microsoft won’t charge you for a whole month, so if you don’t like what you’re using, cancel your subscription before they charge you.
Once you’ve put in your credit card information, you’re good to go! Congratulations on being a proud user of Office365.