Need help regarding Office 365

[Barron]

A mate I know recently got a Samsung Galaxy tablet just to use on the go for editing word and excel documents rather than having go home on computer the whole time.

 

He has 3 company emails that are custom for his companys name (in other words not @gmail or @hotmail emails)

 

Basically Microsoft Word , Excel , Powerpoint and so on were all ready pre-installed on the Galaxy tablet

 

I transferred a few copies of word documents over onto the tablet to test out that they work fine on the tablet which they did but when I clicked to edit the word document it said that he needed a microsoft account to edit or make changes to the document. Obviously its Microsoft's new policy for their office programs now.

 

He would rather have all his emails and documents linked together rather than creating a new microsoft email just to edit work documents

 

Now with the Office 365 it says it allows upto 3 accounts to be linked into the one and comes with 1tb online storage and so on.

 

But if he were to get that package would he be able to transfer his emails onto the office 365 without them being renamed or would he have to create 3 seperate emails that would have to end with @hotmail.com for example?

Edited August 7, 2015 by Barron3000

[hxtr]

Very complected question. 

 

As for getting 365 and a new email should not effect anything. It is a MS account required for the product and what is needed on Win 8.1 or 10 to be able to use the store within the OS. You don't have to use the email if you don't want to.

 

For his three other emails he can add all them accounts to his tablet no different then you would a cell phone. I myself have an MS account.. a gmail account... yahoo account and a private domain account on my phone.

 

You can forward emails from any of them accounts to any other account like all my emails can be forwarded to my MS account if I wanted.

 

Or he can download OfficeSuite Pro and edit his documents that way skipping 365 which is what I would do. Screw 365.

[Barron]

Very complected question. 

 

As for getting 365 and a new email should not effect anything. It is a MS account required for the product and what is needed on Win 8.1 or 10 to be able to use the store within the OS. You don't have to use the email if you don't want to.

 

For his three other emails he can add all them accounts to his tablet no different then you would a cell phone. I myself have an MS account.. a gmail account... yahoo account and a private domain account on my phone.

 

You can forward emails from any of them accounts to any other account like all my emails can be forwarded to my MS account if I wanted.

 

Or he can download OfficeSuite Pro and edit his documents that way skipping 365 which is what I would do. Screw 365.

Thanks for reply, Long story but he is currently using the office outlook program on his PC to log into his company emails but when he trys to login to same email on tablet through the microsoft programs it just simply doesnt work. It's a mess altogether it has my head fried to be honest haha

[hxtr]

If he is accessing his email at work via Exchange.. that is part of the problem. You will have to attach Outlook to Exchange and not sure how that would work on a Tablet.
 

Exchange put a monkey wrench into the mix.  

[Barron]

If he is accessing his email at work via Exchange.. that is part of the problem. You will have to attach Outlook to Exchange and not sure how that would work on a Tablet.

 

Exchange put a monkey wrench into the mix.  

Thanks for the info! I done research on the microsoft exchange as I am not familar with it and it seems to be the solution. Once signed up and set up with it you can combine it with office 365, so it seems like it will work. Once it is set up with office 365 it should work on tablets.

 

Thanks for the help!

Edited August 8, 2015 by Barron3000