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You may be affected, depending on whether you used the license issued by RRU and even depending on how you used it.

If you previously installed Office on your computer using the RRU license, the installed version of Office will have many features disabled either on December 9 or after a 30 day grace period, so January 9.

• At at that point, you’ll need to log into http https://www.office.com/ using your RRU Login and password.

• Documents already saved on your desktop are accessible from httpyou can use https://www.office.com/ ( to open documents on your computer.

  • see “How can I open a document previously stored on my C: drive?” below

  • popup blockers may prevent this so you may need to adjust the blockers

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• New documents will be created from httphttps://www.office.com/. and saved to OneDrive

-Step 1- One option for moving Move files from your RRU OneDrive is to:

• sign into office.com

• go to OneDrive

• find the files you want to move & select them

• download them to your computer to a location of your choosing

• (they still exist on your RRU OneDrive at this point; you’ve taken a copy)

-Step 2- Before you buy a subscription, log out of your RRU MS account

• open Word

• click on the avatar in the upper right corner (most likely the avatar is your initials)

• click ‘Log out’

• close any other MS apps you have open such as Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc.

-Step 3- Buy the license

• If you’re in Canada, you can buy a subscription from Microsoft.

• When you do that, you’ll need to register with a non-RRU email address. Let’s say it’s yourfirstname.yourlastname@gmail.com.

-Step 4- Log into your new subscription of Office

• open Word

• you’ll be asked to login

• enter your MS credentials (yourfirstname.yourlastname@gmailcom + password)

• now you can open Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc. All of these will understand that you are logged in using the new subscription

-Step 5- Copy the files you downloaded… to your new OneDrive space

Note: you don’t need to copy your files up to the new OneDrive space; you can access them from your local drive if you wish. If you go this route, please make sure you have a backup scheme in place to prevent data loss.

• Access your new OneDrive space

• Copy the files from the download location to the OneDrive

• Consider deleting the downloaded copies to prevent confusion

Your RRU email account address is linked to your RRU accountLogin, so as long as you have an active RRU accountLogin, you will continue to have an RRU email accountaddress. This change only impacts “how” to access your RRU email accountaddress.

If you usually check your RRU email using Outlook.office.com, you can keep doing that. No change is required.

If you usually check your email on your phone, you can keep doing that. No change is required.

If you usually check your email on a iPad or tablet, you will need to have a personal subscription for this to work.

If you check your email using Outlook on your computer using your assigned RRU account license, you will need to purchase a new personal license for Office. Then you simply need to switch the license on your computer. We recommend you do the following for the smoothest transition.

• close all Microsoft Applications and then open Microsoft Word.

• on Windows

  • the upper right, click on your name and choose Sign in with a different account

  • enter your new personal credentials

• on Mac

  • on the menu bar, click Word → Sign Out

  • confirm you want to sign out

  • sign in with your new personal credentials

• you are done. Open Outlook and you will see your same configuration as before, but you will now be using your personal license.