Activating Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc) for Apple Mac OS X

Overview

From time to time, Office for Mac licenses become deactivated and begin showing the error in a yellow band across the top of the document:

View Only. Your account yournamehere@cedarcrest.edu doesn't allow editing on a Mac. To learn more, contact your admin about your Office plan.

It is necessary to reactivate Office on your Mac in order to continue normal use.

Directions

1. ​Open any Office application, for this example we will use Excel -- Open Microsoft Excel.
2. Open a new document - you should see the error in a yellow band at the top of your document.
3. Click on the word "Excel" in the Menu Bar across the top of your screen.
4. Select "Activate"
5. Activate Office with your FalconNet email address and password.
6. You should now have normal use of all Office applications.