Office Home & Business 2021 for Mac

Microsoft 365 (free to current students, faculty and staff) includes the latest version of Office and other productivity apps, and is updated automatically. Go to download page 

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

Contains the following programs:

  • Word
  • PowerPoint
  • Excel
  • Outlook  

Ways to use

Download from UB

  1. Uninstall Office (including trial versions and other versions from UB).
  2. Download Office 2021 Home & Business for Mac from UB (last updated 1/26/2024)
  3. Open your Download folder and double-click the download, then install.
  4. Set Office to check for updates automatically. Updates will only be checked when you are connected to the Internet:
    1. Launch Microsoft Office
    2. From the Help menu select Check for Updates
    3. Under How would you like to check for software updates select Automatically Download and Install
    4. Click Check for Updates

Request UB-Licensed

Be sure to specify:

  • Your operating system
  • The software product and version you need (Office Home & Business 2021 for Mac)
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