Download Microsoft Office 21 Free — Windows (Step-by-Step)

Swapnil Raj
4 min readJan 31, 2024

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Download MS Office

Tired of using the trial version of MS Office? Using an older version and want to upgrade for free?

You tried many crack version solutions, but nothing worked?

Welcome! You’re in the right place. After going through this guide, you’ll be able to download the latest version of Microsoft Office for Free.

Microsoft Office is one of the most reliable and suitable products of Microsoft Windows. No matter whether you’re a student, teacher, or working professional. We all use Microsoft Office somehow in our daily lives.

The Main software like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are useful in works like

  • Documentation
  • Organizing data in Spreadsheet.
  • Creating Presentation.

Microsoft Office Suite Apps

  • MS Word
  • MS Excel
  • MS PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • OneDrive
  • Microsoft Teams

Step-by-step Guide to Download Microsoft Office 2021

Microsoft Office 21 System Requirements — Windows:

  • Windows version 10/11.
  • 1.6Ghz Dual core processor.
  • RAM — minimum 2GB, recommended 4GB or more.
  • A minimum of 4GB Disk Space.

1. Downloading Office Customization Tool

Office Customization Tool Page
  • Select the Architecture Suppose You’re using 64-bit.
  • Tick the respective option
  • Scroll down, there you’ll see the Product section.
  • Click Office Suites and Select the Office LTSC Professional Plus — Volume License.
Product Section
  • Scroll down to the Apps Section.
  • Select the Apps you want to include within the Microsoft Office 2021 package.
Apps Section
  • Select your preferred Language for the package and Click Next.
Language Section
  • Click Next under the Installation Options.
Installation Section

Next, you’ll see the Upgrade option.

  • Turn off the “Uninstall any MSI version of Office” section.
  • Click Next
Upgrade Option Section
  • Click Next, under the Licensing and Activation section.
  • Scroll down and Click FINISH
Licensing and Activation Section
Click Finish to Move on
  • Click the Export button, on the top-right side of the page.
  • Under Default File Format pop-up menu.
  • Select the “Office Open XML formats”. And Click OK.
  • Then, Click EXPORT

The Office Customization tool will begin to download and will be saved in your download's directory. You’ve completed the First Step

2. DOWNLOADING OFFICE DEPLOYMENT TOOL

  • Open Your Browser
  • Search Office Deployment Tool or Go to below link.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49117

Office Deployment Tool Page

Hit the Download Button and your file will be downloaded automatically.

Go to the Folder where you’ve downloaded the files.

You’ll be able to see two files:

  1. Configuration.xml
  2. Office Deployment tool setup

Now you’ve to

  • Create a folder in the C drive.
  • Name “Office 2021”.
  • Move these two files into the “Office 2021” folder.

It will look like this.

Files are moved to the C drive.

Before we Move on to the next step, ensure you’ve deleted any existing Microsoft Office version to avoid inconvenience.

  • Open the Office Deployment Setup.
  • Select the existing path to download i.e. Local Disk C:\Office 2021
  • Click OK and your files will be extracted in the Office 2021 Folder.

Here comes are Final and most important Step. So, Stick around!

3. Installing Microsoft Office 2021

Below are the prompts that we’ll use while installing MS Office. You can copy these into the Notepad for future use.

cd c:\Office 2021

setup /configure configuration.xml

  • Open the Command Prompt
  • Copy-paste cd c:\Office 2021 and Hit Enter.
  • Then, copy-paste setup /configure configuration.xml And Hit Enter

See the below Screenshots to understand more clearly.

First Command
Second Command

Hit Enter and Wait.

Microsoft Office Installing process.

Now Microsoft Office 2021 will begin to Download and Install automatically.

TIPS:

Microsoft Office package size is around 3–5 GB. It is recommended to have an active Internet connection/ Wi-Fi for better download speed.

That’s It, Microsoft Office has been successfully downloaded and installed on your PC.

Now you can take full advantage of Microsoft Office 2021 Applications.

Hope this article assisted you in the process.

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