UF students, faculty, and staff can download full offline copies of Office 2013 Professional Plus, Office 2016 for Mac, and Office for iPad on up to five personal machines (such as a desktop or a laptop) and to five tablets.

This morning UFIT went live with the for faculty and staff. The program provides multiple free downloads of Office 365 to personal devices. Microsoft made the decision to expand Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus for Education, a multiple-download program benefit which has been available to students since April 2014, to include faculty and staff. The program allows for multiple full downloads to personal devices (desktops and laptops) of Office 2013 Professional Plus, Office 2011 for Mac, and Office for iPad at no charge. In addition, UF faculty and staff can also download full software copies on up to five tablets for free and run personal copies of Office Mobile for iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone on unlimited devices.

The has additional information about what’s included, the links necessary to download free copies, and Office 365 training resources. Members of the university community with questions about the program or who need download assistance should or call the UF Computing Help Desk (352-392-HELP/4357). Dragon dictate for mac 4.0.

Last month as part of their Office 365 ProPlus Free Downloads, Microsoft released Office 2016 for the Mac. It is currently available for download for all UF faculty and staff from the page. The new version includes updated versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Some of the highlights of the new office suite include seamless integration with OneDrive, so you can store your documents in the campus “GatorCloud” storage, and the Outlook client is fully feature compatible with the current Windows version of Outlook and has a similar look and feel to the Web client. I have been using Office 2016 update for the past two weeks, and I have been impressed with the update. In order to download and install Office 2016 you must be running OS-X Yosemite (10.10), but that is a free upgrade from Apple.