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Purchasing Microsoft Office 2011 for Macintosh for Personally-Owned Computers

Use Microsoft Office, a productivity suite of software for editing documents, creating spreadsheets, making computer slide shows, reading email and more.

Do Not Install Over Trial or Demo Versions

Uninstall any trial versions of Office before you download and install Office 2011. Installing over a trial or demo version will cause problems and prompt you for a product key.

Microsoft Office 2011 Standard includes:

  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • Word
  • Outlook

We recommend that students stay consistent with the version of Office that their professors use. We do not recommend upgrading before the end of the semester.

System Requirements

  • A Mac computer with an Intel processor
  • Mac OS X version 10.5.8 or later
  • 1 GB or more of RAM
  • 2.5 GB of available hard disk space
  • HFS+ hard disk format (also known as Mac OS Extended or HFS Plus)
  • 1280 x 800 or higher resolution monitor
  • Connection to a local area network
  • Safari 5 or later recommended

Availability

Eligibility

Microsoft Office 2011 Standard is available to:

  • Students who have paid the Comprehensive fee
  • Faculty
  • Faculty Student Association employees
  • Geographic Full time Faculty
  • State employee (UUP, CSEA, MC, PEF)
  • Sub-Board I (SBO) employees
  • Research Foundation employees
  • UB Foundation employees
  • Medical residents (must download faculty/staff version)

Log In and Purchase Office 2011 from OnTheHub:

Purchase

You will receive email from Kivuto OnTheHub when you download or purchase this software.

Checking for Office Updates

You should set Office to check for Office updates automatically. Updates will only be checked when you are connected to the Internet:

  1. Launch a Microsoft Office application.
  2. From the Help menu select Check for Updates.
  3. Under How would you like to check for software updates select Automatically.
  4. On the Check for Updates pop-up menu select the frequency you want AutoUpdate to check for updates.

Vendor Support

See support from Microsoft
Go to the Office:mac site

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