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How to Install the 64-Bit Version of Office 365 for Windows

Microsoft’s Office 365 is in fact pretty excellent– for $10 a month you can set up Office on as much as five computers, show your household, use the official tablet computer/ phone versions of MS Office, and also you obtain 1 Terabyte of OneDrive storage space. Yet all of a sudden the 64-bit version of Office went missing out on. What provides?

It ends up there are numerous compatibility concerns with plugins as well as various other applications that incorporate with Office, because a lot of them are only offered in 32-bit variations, and aren’t compatible with 64-bit. This is especially true in the office, where company applications have actually been hacked together by low-paid developers in Visual Basic and also made to integrate with Office in some way.

So they’ve concealed away the 64-bit install and made it challenging to locate. However you can still discover it. Not that you truly should.

Note: we recommend that you simply mount the regular 32-bit version of Office, unless you have a requirement for really big spreadsheets that don’t operate in the 32-bit version of Excel.

Set Up the 64-Bit Version of Office 365

If you are identified to set up the 64-bit version of Office 365 somehow, you’ll require to login to your account at office.microsoft.com as well as select the Install Office button that lies all over. Then look at the Install Information area and also click the “Language as well as set up alternatives” link.

After that you’ll intend to neglect the large fat Install switch and also rather choose the “Additional set up options” web link that rests below it.

Lastly, you go to the screen that permits you to set up the 64-bit version of Office. You’ll need to pick it and choose the Install button.

And also again, just to be clear, you ought to possibly stick to the 32-bit variation of Office, however at the very least currently you know exactly how to mount the other variation. Thanks to visitor ron007 on the forum for directing this out.

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