Let’s look at the applications themselves. It’s something I couldn’t say about the iPad or any of the Android tablets out there.

And just like that, almost every non-engineering student I know could get away with a Windows RT tablet as their primary computing device, provided they aren’t gamers or aren’t attached to the idea of local storage. So Microsoft decided to do something about it: Office 2013 Home and Student Edition ships as a pre-installed part of every single Windows RT tablet. For a tablet to truly be a viable replacement for a notebook, office productivity needed to be addressed. In the smartphone world, this wasn’t as much of a distinguishing factor as Microsoft hoped it would be when they included a mobile version of the full Office suite in Windows Phone 7, but that’s because there’s relatively little scope for document creation or editing on handhelds. And it’s a pretty big deal - this is the first time we’re seeing the full Office experience reach a modern tablet platform, at least in the first party sense. Select the product key option to install Office, enter your product key, and Office will install in minutes.Office 2013 is the headlining application for Windows RT. Put the DVD in your computer and run the setup wizard. Then select “ View your product key“, this is the key you will enter to install your Office 2013 offline. Then you will want to select the option, “ Install from a disc“.ĭownload the Office Home & Business or Home and Student disc image file to your computer and burnt it to a DVD. Go through the setup until you come to the “ download Microsoft Office to the computer” screen. Next go to sign in with your Microsoft Account.Įnter the product key and hit “get started”.

Set up a Microsoft account for the customer.

You will need Internet access one time to download the disc image of Office 2013, after you have the disc image you will be able to install Office completely offline on other computers. Here is how I managed to install Office 2013 completely offline.

Office 2013 is not sold with disc, but with a product key card. I had a situation recently, where I had to install Microsoft Office 2013 on a computer that didn’t have internet access.

Ms office 2013 home and student