How to Install and Activate Microsoft Office 2021 for Free - Step by Step Guide

yeah hi everyone in this video we'll go over installing a fully activated Microsoft Office 2021 version so first things first I'll open up my browser and search for the office customization so hit enter and the very first option office customization so I'll click on this and this opens up the 365 admin Center so um you have the option to choose the architecture so depending on your system you choose 32 bit of 64-bits personally I have a 64-bit system so I'll choose the 64 bits option and I scroll down so the next option select office seats product so here I'll choose office LCSC volume license 2021 so I click on this and select this and um the next option I'll choose is additional products so here I'll select language pack additional products and then scroll down and leave everything as default so make sure you have latest as a version so I scroll down and here you can select the apps you want to have on your system so personally I don't need access um I could leave the rest as they are so I don't check assets depending on your needs you could check the apps are important to you so I'll leave this um as it is and then click on next so here you have the option to choose the primary language for the applications so I'll select um English United States so I choose this and you can also choose additional languages so you come here and choose additional languages right but I'll just leave this and scroll on to the next option so I click on next so here um where do you want to deploy office from so I'll leave that default office CDN and leave as default just click on next and here so um I recommend before installing um this right make sure you uninstall um previous versions of office you might have on your system so here right if you have other versions it should be checked but currently I don't have office on my laptop so I want to check all these options but I recommend uninstalling office rights and then you cannot proceed to install um Microsoft using this method so once I've checked that right I click on next so licensing and activation rights so you have the option of KMS or Mac so when you choose Mac you have to provide a license key right but we don't have that so go with KMS and scroll down to the next option so leave as a defaults and then click on next so I'll just keep all this click on next and then scroll down and select finish so I come on here and um click on export stop right click on Xbox and I will choose the office open XML formats and hit OK accepts the terms and click on so the file is called configuration or it's configuration so I hit exports and this will save the file right in your default um downloads folder so when I show in folder right these are my downloads folder right configuration.xml so the next thing we'll do is um open up a new tab and here I'll search for the office deployments to and hit enter so office deployment to Microsoft 365. I opened this up and I'll just scroll down and download so this saves the file also in your default folder so I open this up right my downloads folder you see that I have the two downloaded office deployment so so now what I'll do is I'll come on to my um desktop right or right click and create a new folder and I'll call this office 2021 can't give you any name right so I'll call it office 2021 and here I'll just bring in so I'll bring in my config file I'll just drag it across and move it to this folder and then this tool I downloaded right um you do it right click click on the file do a right click and then select the option runoff administrator so I click on this when I select yes to accept the license terms and continue so here you have to select um where you extract the files into so I want to extract it is the same downloads folder so I'll come to this PC and I'll select the downloads folder right downloads folder and hit OK so it says files extracted successfully so when you look at the downloads folder rights you have all the files extracted so I need the setup file right setup.exe this is file I need so I'll just um track this also to the office 21 folder also minimize this when I open up the office 2021 file so I have the two files I need right the XML file and this exe file now the next thing we'll do is um come on to um the search bar on my windows and I'll search for CMD that's a command prompt so the command prompt I'll just right click on this and run as administrator I select this and I hit yes so there's a command prompts right I want to run a command but this command has to run from the office 2091 folder so what I'll do is I'll come on to the office um turn into one folder right and click on this box here and this pops up the parts right the path to this folder so just right click and copy this part and I'll come back to my command prompt right so here I'll type in a command CD this change directory so I want to change directly to the folder and I'll paste the part I copied and enter all right so you can see this now on the office 1081 on a folder so I want to run the config file from this folder and I'll type in a command so this command I'll put in the video description right so you could find it there also but this simply sets up then a space they have a slash then you type configure a space and then the XML founding corn figuration dots XML right so set up space forward slash configure space and then configuration.xml once you have this right you hit enter so this starts installing Microsoft's office 21 right so you can see right it says office is installing in the background click here for status so these installing rights it might take a few minutes so while this installs right um you can minimize this and minimize this also yes so this will take a few minutes to install the paint on your on the number of apps is selected but then you ensure you stay online and you don't start a computer so this is um completely installed right I hit on close and now I can close my command prompt and I come into the search bar and type in Excel so you see I have Excel currently installed so I open up Excel and here right I cannot probably blank workbook and you can see this works perfectly if I come onto the file come onto the account right you can see this office 2021 products activated and this works perfectly and just to test right you can see that functions like the X lookup for example is here but in 2019 and other versions you won't see this function so this works perfectly well so this is installed I can go on to delete this folder take it off and also delete these other files on the yeah and that's it um thank you for watching okay

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Keywords: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Installation, Office 2021

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Length: 11min 37sec (697 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 14 2023