{"id":841332,"date":"2026-10-29T10:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroshopkey.com\/?page_id=841332"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:29:04","slug":"office-home-and-student","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euroshopkey.com\/fi\/office-home-and-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Home and Student: Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What Office Home and Student really includes<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Office Home and Student<\/strong> is the entry-level edition of Microsoft&#8217;s office suite. It brings together the three applications people actually use at home and during their studies: <strong>Word<\/strong> for reports, essays and letters, <strong>Excel<\/strong> for tables, budgets and calculations, and <strong>PowerPoint<\/strong> for presentations. The 2016 and 2024 versions add <strong>OneNote<\/strong> for note-taking.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing what this edition does not include is just as useful, because that is often where the right choice is made:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No Outlook:<\/strong> your email stays in your browser or in the free mail app of Windows.<\/li>\n<li><strong>No Access or Publisher<\/strong>, which are reserved for the professional editions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>One perpetual license for one computer<\/strong>, with no subscription and no annual payment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>No extra cloud storage:<\/strong> you keep the free 5 GB of OneDrive that comes with any Microsoft account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Office Home and Student 2024, 2019 or 2016?<\/h2>\n<p>All the versions below are perpetual licenses for one computer. They differ in Microsoft support, in the Windows versions they accept and in price.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Version<\/th>\n<th>Applications<\/th>\n<th>Windows<\/th>\n<th>Microsoft security updates<\/th>\n<th>Price<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/product\/office-2024-home-student\/\">Office 2024 Home and Student<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote<\/td>\n<td>Windows 11 and 10<\/td>\n<td>Until 9 October 2029<\/td>\n<td>from {prix:office-2024-home-student}<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Office 2024 Home<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote<\/td>\n<td>Windows 11 and 10<\/td>\n<td>Until 9 October 2029<\/td>\n<td>from {prix:microsoft-office-2024-home}<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/product\/office-2019-home-student\/\">Office 2019 Home and Student<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Word, Excel, PowerPoint<\/td>\n<td>Windows 11 and 10<\/td>\n<td>Ended on 14 October 2025<\/td>\n<td>from {prix:office-2019-home-student}<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Office 2016 Home and Student<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote<\/td>\n<td>Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 11<\/td>\n<td>Ended on 14 October 2025<\/td>\n<td>from {prix:office-2016-home-student}<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>With the 2024 generation, Microsoft renamed Home and Student to <strong>Office Home 2024<\/strong>: offers sold under either name cover the same applications, so compare the prices on the cards above. Our page on <a href=\"\/office-2024-home\/\">Office 2024 Home<\/a> explains the naming and the 2024 editions in detail.<\/p>\n<h2>Home and Student or another edition?<\/h2>\n<p>The deciding factor fits in one question: do you need an email client on your computer, or will you use Office for paid work? If the answer is no, Home and Student covers everything a household or a student needs. For a student, it is the simplest option: one payment, no account to renew at the end of the school year, and files that teachers can open in any version of Office.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Home and Business<\/strong> adds Outlook and the right to use the suite for professional purposes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professional Plus<\/strong> adds Outlook and Access, and on our shop it is sometimes priced close to the home editions: compare before you decide on our <a href=\"\/office-professional-plus\/\">Office Professional Plus<\/a> page.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Microsoft 365<\/strong> suits families who want Office on several computers, tablets and smartphones: see how to <a href=\"\/microsoft-365-key\/\">buy Microsoft 365<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"background:#eff6ff;border-left:4px solid #1e40af;border-radius:0 12px 12px 0;padding:16px 20px;margin:24px 0;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-weight:700;color:#1e3a8a;\">Good to know<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">The license is perpetual: no renewal and no subscription. Your files stay in the standard .docx, .xlsx and .pptx formats, so they remain readable in every recent version of Office and in Microsoft 365.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Why is a genuine Home and Student license so affordable?<\/h2>\n<p>Because these are genuine pre-owned licenses, not counterfeits. Since the <strong>UsedSoft<\/strong> ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (case C-128\/11), reselling a downloaded software license is lawful in the EU when the original license was acquired for an unlimited period and the first owner no longer uses it. Without a box, logistics or middlemen, the price falls, while the license itself is identical to the one sold in shops and activates on Microsoft&#8217;s official servers.<\/p>\n<p>Be wary, on the other hand, of suspiciously cheap keys on some marketplaces: they are often trial or temporary activations that stop working after a few weeks. With us, every order includes an invoice showing VAT and lifetime replacement of a defective key.<\/p>\n<h2>Installation and activation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Requirements:<\/strong> Windows 10 or Windows 11 for the 2019 and 2024 versions, Windows 7 SP1 or later for 2016; 4 GB of RAM and about 4 GB of free disk space. Mac users need a Mac edition, sold separately.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Before installing:<\/strong> uninstall the trial version of Office preinstalled on many new PCs, as it often prevents your key from activating.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Activation:<\/strong> follow the instructions in your delivery email. Home and Student keys are usually redeemed on Microsoft&#8217;s official setup page and linked to your Microsoft account, which makes reinstalling easy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Files:<\/strong> your .docx, .xlsx and .pptx files remain fully readable by teachers and colleagues, whatever their version of Office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once activated, the license is yours for good: it does not stop after twelve months and needs no renewal. In return, it stays tied to its version and does not give access to future releases, a trade-off explained in our guide <a href=\"\/microsoft-office-for-students-which-version-2026\/\">Microsoft Office for students: which version to choose<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Office Home and Student really includes Office Home and Student is the entry-level edition of Microsoft&#8217;s office suite. It brings together the three applications people actually use at home and during their studies: Word for reports, essays and letters, Excel for tables, budgets and calculations, and PowerPoint for presentations. 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