Microsoft Office Products for professors and other staff

SOFTWARE 10-020

What you need to know

The information on this Helpcard is only intended for professors and employees and does NOT apply to students at Furtwangen University.

Professors and employees must install Microsoft Office products on work devices via our Microsoft country license. If required, please contact the IT administrator of your faculty or, in the case of centrally managed end devices, the university's central IT department. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, for example, can be obtained via the national license, but Teams, OneNote and OneDrive may not be used for teaching at HFU.

The use of Microsoft Office 365 education (via an account “@associate.hs-furtwangen.de”) was only permitted for private purposes at our university. Use on work devices or in teaching was not permitted.

For private devices, you must purchase your own Microsoft licenses from software retailers. Alternatively, you can also use Office suites, which are available at low cost or even free of charge.
You can find information on alternative products on the Internet, for example at  heise.de - Office-Alternativen.

What you have to do

  1. Open the address www.microsoft365.com.

    • The Microsoft Office website is displayed.

  2. Click on the “Log in” button.

    • You will be redirected to the HFU-Acount login or directly to the Microsoft 365 homepage.

  3. Optional: If you are not already logged in with your HFU account, you must first log in with your HFU account data at this point. 

    • Example: abc12345@stud.hs-furtwangen.de + personal password

    • You will land on the Microsoft 365 homepage.

  4. Click on the “Install and more” button to open the drop-down menu and select the “Install Microsoft 365 apps” option.

    • You will be taken to the “Apps and devices” overview page, where all available programs are listed.

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    Private devices: For private devices, you must purchase your own Microsoft licenses from software retailers. Alternatively, you can also use Office suites, which are available at low cost or even free of charge.
    You can find information on alternative products on the Internet, for example here:  Office - Alternativen

Problems or questions?