How do students install Office for free?
Students can install office directly from our gfcmsu.edu website.
1. Navigate to www.gfcmsu.edu, after that, click on students in the top-left section.
2. On that page, locate the white envelope in the upper-left, this will prompt to sign in to Microsoft.
3. The credentials will be your NetID@gfcmsu.edu (your NetID usually looks like this: "a123b45"), followed by the password you have set to access Bannerweb or D2L.
4. Once you've signed in, in the top right of the office home page, you can see a white button that says "Install Apps", click that and select "Microsoft 365 Apps".
Note that this includes the entire Office 365 Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, OneDrive, and OneNote)
5. Run the file either from your browser downloads (this is usually in the top right of your browser with an icon of an arrow pointing downwards.) Or, you can find it by opening File Explorer on your device, then navigating to downloads.
Note, our websites, links, and downloads function the best with the Google Chrome browser, you can find a link to install this browser below:
Download Chrome for Windows: https://www.google.com/chrome/?brand=JSBI&brand=JSBI&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsJyeorzwgAMVninUAR2pEAR5EAAYASABEgKPyfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds