How to Share an Office 365 Home Subscription

Learn how to share your Office 365 Home subscription plan with up to 5 other people. Office 365 includes such popular programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, 1 TB OneDrive storage per user, and 60 minutes per month Skype calling. If you share with 6 people total, the price per month works out to around $1.40, which is pretty tremendous value.

As full-disclosure, I work at Microsoft as a full-time employee.

[Paul-flxq]

ahahaha, even the Microsoft employee uses Chrome

[chicohuff]

My wife shared her account with me. I got the email, clicked the link and it asked me to log in. What do I use for login? So far it’s just treating like a customer who needs to buy it.

[RavirajGharat]

1. What happens to my data and files if I stop the subscription ?
2. What if I want to switch from one family group to another?
3. Will data from one family account be shown in another account?

[mredman]

Hello Kevin, My account doesn't show my Office 365 subscription. But I have paid for the home addition and have all the apps (excel, outlook, word, etc). And such, my acct page/subscriptions & services tab doesn't look like yours. There is not any 'Share Devices'
Any help?

[lusitriyani]

if we share with 5 people, for ex I share with my 5 friends. do they sign in with their own Microsoft account or with my account to get the share? Will our data be safe from other 5 people?

[tomdix]

No it didn't help, it's only half a video. I just sent an invite to my wife and she can't get logged in. She has her own Microsoft account, should that work? Doesn't appear to be?

[mrsbelding]

Can the people you share with see what documents you working on, say on recently opened document?

[visothsarakpenn]

Dear Kevin, I have a concern regarding the security. Can the people you share your subscription with view your files ?

[memoirsofkatrina]

Your channel is very informative! Thank you!

[cantuvinicius]

Thank you for the video! Does the license owner has any access to the other family members OneDrive contents, or is it private to each one?

[mahe-]

Thank you, Kevin. It worked just fine! My daughter even found out how to make me the administrator (she had done it while I was at work) Kids these days! LoL

[mrnord]

Thank you Kevin for making this video it was exactly what I was looking for :)

[JustFun-izrf]

I have office 365 with 6 users. I do not understan how to make it so others cannot see my documents. I cannot find it on YouTube Help

[kaizen]

thank you for this video. like to know if you delete one person account can you reassign to another person? will that assignee office work properly?

[UjangBoyor]

let's assume, you remove a person. this person has 1tb files on the shared onedrive. what happened to them files then?

[touseefhabib]

I have the Family account and works for me. I have tried to share it with my family via email. I shows that invite was sent and status shows as "Invite Pending". None of the 3 members to whom I have sent the invite received it. I have resent few times as well. Also asked them to check their Junk folders. No luck either. Why is the invite not reaching them?

[PatrickDKing]

I'm almost sold, but not being able to allocate the 6TB for me really ruins it. I am aware of the dummy account shared folder method but it's really not something I want to be bothered with. It's 2022 and the lack of something so simple as that just ruins it for me.

[NUalum]

can you discuss outlook new0 if you had chrome installed. Got new pc and would love to use outlook ( never have but know basics on what it is)- do you have to deinstall chrome to use Today I use chrome and yahoo calendar for 2 emails I have. oh other question - on sharing if I want to include my gmail and my work email does that count as 2...I am assuming yes

[briangreene]

great video and info: question. I have office 365 on my 2 pc and my sister shares 2 license for her 2 PC. I am in the process of changing one of my pc and my sister is getting rid of one of her pc -hdd problems. how can I effective change out the PC and not over use my 5 lic? thinking out loud - "unload ofc 365 on my old pc, load ofc 365 onto my new pc, give my sister my old pc (w/o ofc 365), one of her pc has a bad hdd and cannot unload ofc365. how can I get to share my ofc 365 license on my old pc? loss here - help??

[bgradionetwork]

Correction: Office home and student is 150 dollars one time and then you have it until you need to buy a new pc or need to reinstall Windows