Use the Office offline installer

To help with issues you might encounter when installing Office because of slow speeds or unreliable connections, as a first step download the Support and Recovery Assistant tool. (For information about this tool, go here.)

Offline installer manual steps

If the Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant didn’t help, follow the steps below that are specific to your plan. You need to be connected to the internet to download this installer file, but once that’s done, you can then install Office offline on a PC at your convenience.

The steps below differ if your Office product is part of an Office for home or Office for business plan so you need to select the correct tab for your product.

Tip: If you purchased Office through a company benefit, see Office through the Home Use Program (HUP).

Microsoft 365 for home

If your Office product is one of the follow, you have a Microsoft 365 for home product. This can be an Microsoft 365 subscription, or a one-time purchase of Office or individual Office application. These products are usually associated with a personal Microsoft account.

Microsoft 365 subscriptions: The following products include the fully installed Office applications.

Microsoft 365 Family
Microsoft 365 Personal

Office 2019, Office 2016, or Office 2013 versions available as one-time purchases: The following products include the fully installed Office applications.

Office Home & Student
Office Home & Business
Office Professional

Stand-alone Office 2019, 2016, or 2013 apps available as one-time purchases

Word
Excel
PowerPoint
OneNote*
Outlook
Access
Publisher
Project
Visio

Tip: *The desktop version of OneNote is only available 2016 and 2013 versions. Beginning with the release of Office 2019, OneNote for Windows 10 is the default OneNote experience for Microsoft 365 and Office 2019 customers. See the FAQ.

Microsoft 365 for business

If your Office product is one of the following, you have a Microsoft 365 for business product. These products are usually associated with a work or school account, and your Office license (if your subscription has one) came from the organization where you work or go to school.

Microsoft 365 Subscriptions: The following products include the fully installed Office applications.

Microsoft 365 Apps for business
Microsoft 365 Business Standard

Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise
Office 365 Enterprise E3
Office 365 Enterprise E4
Office 365 Enterprise E5

Microsoft 365 Business Standard (Nonprofit)
Office 365 Nonprofit E3
Office 365 Nonprofit E5

Office 365 U.S. Government Community G3
Office 365 U.S. Government Community G5

Project Online Professional
Project Online Premium

Visio Online Plan 2

Microsoft 365 Subscriptions without fully installed Office applications:

Tip: With these Microsoft 365 subscriptions, there are no desktop applications to download and install, but in most cases you can still access and use online versions of Office apps in your web browser. Learn more Free Office Online apps.

Microsoft 365 Business Basic
Office 365 Enterprise E1
Office 365 A1
Microsoft 365 Business Basic (Nonprofit)
Office 365 Nonprofit E1
Office 365 U.S. Government G1
Project Online Essentials
Visio Online Plan 1

Volume license versions of Office 2019, Office 2016, or Office 2013

Office Professional Plus

Select your plan

Step 1. Download the offline installer from your account portal

To download the offline installer, go to www.office.com. If you’re not already signed in with the Microsoft account associated with your copy of Office do that now. If you’re signed in with a different account, sign out of that and then sign in again with the correct Microsoft account.

Note: If you’re trying to install Microsoft 365 that you got through your work or school and you already signed in with your work or school account, don’t follow these instructions. Select the Office for business tab from above instead.

Select Install Office. If you have a Microsoft 365 subscription, you’ll also need to select Install Office > on the Installs page.

In the Download and install window, select Other options.

Check the box Download an offline installer and select the language you want to install Office in. Select Download.

When you’re prompted, from the bottom of your browser window, select Save (in Edge), Open (in Internet Explorer), Open when done (in Chrome), or Save File (in Firefox). The file will begin downloading on your PC.

Once the download is complete, open File Explorer and locate a new virtual drive, for example (D:). This drive contains the Office installation files. If you don’t see the new drive, locate the image file you downloaded and double-click it. The new drive should appear in your directory.

Note: If you already have a drive labeled (D:), Office creates a virtual drive with the next available letter, which would be (E:) (as shown in the next step below).

Save the image: You can also choose to save a copy of this virtual drive to a thumb drive or disc for later use.

Step 2. Install Office

Select the Office folder from the virtual drive and then double-click either the Setup32.exe to install the 32-bit version of Office, or Setup64.exe to install the 64-bit version to begin the offline installation. If you’re not sure which version is right for you, see Choose the 64-bit or 32-bit version of Office.

When you see the message, You’re all set, you can access your Office applications.

After your Office installation is complete, you need to activate Office. Be sure you’re connected to the Internet and then open any Office application, such as Word or Excel.

In most cases, Office is activated once you start an application and after you click Accept to agree to the License terms. If you need activation help, see Activate Office.

After activating Office and before you start using it, make sure you have the latest update.

In any Office app, for example Word, open a new or existing document, then select File, > Account.

From the Update Options drop-down list box, select Update Now.

If you have a Microsoft 365 for business product you can use the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) to download and install Microsoft 365 offline. The tool is designed for enterprise environments and runs from the command line, so the steps are more complicated—but they’ll still work for installation on a single device.

You must have an Office license assigned to you to install and activate Office. To check if you have one, see What Microsoft 365 business product or license do I have?

Step 1 — Download and install the Office Deployment Tool

Create a folder on your hard drive and name it ODT. For this example, we’ll create it on the c:\ drive, like so: c:\ODT.

Download the Office Deployment Tool from the Microsoft Download Center. Select Save As and save it to your downloads folder.

In your downloads folder, double-click the Office Deployment Tool exe file to install it.

If you see the User Account Control prompt that says, Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device?, click Yes.

Accept the Microsoft Software License Terms, and then click Continue.

In the Browse for Folder dialog, select the ODT folder you created in earlier, and then click OK.

Step 2 — Download and install Office

The drop-down list below contains detailed steps that show how to download and install the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise or Microsoft 365 Apps for business.

If you have a Microsoft 365 Apps for business or Microsoft 365 Business Standard plan, you need to download the Microsoft 365 Apps for business version. For all other plans, download the Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise version. See the following if you’re not sure which version to install:

To find out which Microsoft 365 plan you have, see What Microsoft 365 business product or license do I have?

If you’re not sure how to decide between 64-bit or 32-bit, see Choose between the 64-bit or 32-bit version of Office.

How to install Office 2019 installation files not found in VLSC

Office 365 ProPlus is being renamed to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. For more information about this change, read this blog post.

Summary

Office files can be downloaded separately.

More information

The steps below apply only to the following programs:

• Office Professional Plus 2019
• Office Standard 2019
• Visio Professional 2019
• Visio Standard 2019
• Project Professional 2019
• Project Standard 2019

Follow the steps below to download and install your Office 2019 software or application:

The screenshots below are examples that may not match your own experience.

Browse to https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=49117 and select Download.

Select the arrow next to the Save As option.

Create a new folder and save the file to this folder. (The name of the folder is irrelevant. For instance, create a folder on your Desktop named «Office».)

This folder should be a shared location that is accessible for installation to other devices.

Double click the .EXE file (or select Run, if the dialog box is still open). If asked, select Yes.

A pop up window will display the Microsoft Software License Terms. Check the box and select Continue.

You might be requested to select a location where you want the files saved. If so, select the folder that you created.

Under Create a new configuration, select Create.

Under Products and releases, select 64-bit.

Then, select the product or app that you want to deploy and select Next.

Choose your Language and then select Next.

Under Installation options, select the options that match your needs (or do nothing) and select Next.

Under Update and Upgrade, select the options that match your needs (or do nothing) and then select Next.

Select the Multiple Activation Key (MAK) option. Enter the volume license key specific to the software, move the Autoactivate slider to On, and then select Next.

If your organization uses Key Management Service (KMS) activation, select KMS Client Key instead.

Enter your name or the name of your company or organization and then select Next.

Under Application preferences, select Finish.

Select Export in the upper-right corner of the page.

In the File Name text box, type «Configuration» (if it does not already show this) and then select Save as to save it to the folder you created.

Make a note of this location as it will be needed for the following steps.

Open an elevated Command Prompt. (Select the Windows button, type «CMD», right-click Command Prompt, and select Run as administrator.)

Type «cd «(c+d+space bar). Copy the file path of the location where you downloaded the file and paste it in the command prompt window.

Select Enter. The Command Prompt Line is now updated to the location where the files were downloaded:

This will vary depending on where you created the folder for the downloaded file.

Copy and paste the following command in the Command Prompt window and select Enter:

Setup /configure configuration.xml

The Office installation will start.

How to Activate Microsoft Office 2019 using a product key

If automatic activation did not work, you can manually activate your software by following the steps below:

Open a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file. Select File.

Select Help or Account.

Select Change Product Key.

Enter the product key in the field box and then select Install.
The Office installation will begin.