Introduction Questrom recommends that incoming students bring a laptop computer with a minimum of 8GB (16GB preferable, especially on non-upgradable laptops) of memory and 256GB hard drive capacity that is capable of running Windows 8 or higher. Microsoft Office Office 2016 Professional Plus for Windows and Office 2016 for Mac are available free of charge from the BU IT Help Center. Information on downloading and installing it can be found. Apple users should note that Office for the Mac does not include Access and some Excel plug-ins used in the Questrom curriculum. Therefore, Apple users should plan to install Windows and install the Windows version of Microsoft Office to meet class requirements. More information on doing so can be found.
Academic Pricing Many options exist for academic pricing discounts, using your school email address. The BU IT Help Center can help you to choose the right software vendor to get the best deals. In May 2017, the BU IT Help Center posted a which offers advice on purchasing Lenovo ThinkPads for back-to-school. Support Students should be aware that BU has a repair facility, located at 179 Amory Street, which can support specific brands of computers. More details can be found.
The provides students Office 365 ProPlus for free while they are students at Northeastern University. Students can download the software through a link on myNortheastern. You can also directly access the Office 365 portal at. Log into, and click Self-Service. Look for Microsoft Student Advantage at the bottom of the right-hand column.
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Click “Access Office 365 ProPlus” which will then redirect you to the Microsoft Online Portal for Northeastern University. The Microsoft Online Portal The Microsoft Office 365 portal can be directly access at. Office 365 requires the use of a new username to access your account: myNortheastern [email protected] For example, if your myNortheastern username is kinghusky, your Office 365 username will be [email protected]. This username is ONLY for Office 365 services. In the sign in box your Office 365 username will be pre-populated. Enter your myNortheastern password in the password field and click Sign In.
You will land on the Software page and Office 365 will auto detect the operating system of the computer in use, displaying the appropriate software. Macs are presented with a version of Office – dependent on your version of Mac OS X – as a single download. OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and 10.9 (Mavericks) – Office 2011 for Mac – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook; there is a separate download for OneNote (it is easier to directly download it from the Mac App Store). OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) – Office 2016 for Mac – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote. Windows machines are presented with Office 2013 as a single download (the default is 32-bit, although 64 bit is available by clicking Advanced).
Office 2013 – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, Lync and InfoPath NOTES:. While students are provided with Outlook, your only Northeastern email is your husky.neu.edu Gmail email account. You have the ability to set up your Husky Mail in Outlook if you want, in the same way you can set up your Husky Mail on a mobile device. Lync is also part of most Office suites available through your Office 365 ProPlus license, but service is not available through Northeastern for students. If you already have a purchased version of Office 2010 (Windows) or 2011 (Mac) on your computer, downloading and installing the Office 365 version of Office 2013 (Windows) or 2016 (Mac) will NOT overwrite it – the two suites will work side-by-side. Now that you have downloaded the software, it is time to install it.
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