Many users often test Office 365 Personal before opting for the Office 365 Home edition to allow other family members to install it on their devices. If you want switch from Office 365 Personal at home or vice versa, you can do it by following this step-by-step tutorial.
If you subscribe to Office 365 Personal, only you can use it on your devices. However, the Home Edition allows up to six people to use it and get all the benefits simultaneously. On the other hand, suppose you bought the Office 365 Home plan for you and your family, but your family members no longer need it. You can downgrade from Office 365 Home to Personal plan too. Before checking out the steps, you need to know some essential details regarding the plan change.
What Happens When You Upgrade from Office 365 Personal to Home
You start to enjoy all the additional benefits of Office 365 Home. In case you don’t know, here is a list that might be helpful.
- You can share your subscription with five other family members, which makes six people in total.
- All users can install Office 365 applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) on all their devices, including mobile, PC, etc.
- Each user can be connected to Office applications on up to five devices at a time.
- Each person can get 1 TB of storage on OneDrive (6 TB in total for six users).
- Each user can get 60 Skype minutes each month.
What Happens When You Downgrade from Office 365 Home to Personal
In the event that you downgrade from Home to a personal Office 365 plan, you should know everything that you are going to miss.
- You can no longer share your subscription with other people.
- A user will get 1 TB of OneDrive storage.
- A user will benefit from 60 Skype minutes.
How the Office 365 plan change works
In a single line, the new subscription will be added automatically to the existing subscription, but the billing cycle should be the same.
Suppose you have two months of Office 365 Personal subscription and you buy 12 months of Office 365 Home subscription. Therefore, you will get 14 months (2 months old subscription + 12 months new subscription) Office 365 Home subscription.
The steps are the same for both switches. However, you must delete all of the Home subscription shares before choosing the Personal subscription. The best thing is that you don’t need to reactivate the existing installation of Office 365 on your PC or mobile. In addition, you do not need to reinstall the applications.
How to change the Office 365 subscription plan
To switch Office 365 Personal to home, follow these steps:
- Open the Microsoft account management page
- Access the All subscriptions window
- Click on Office 365 Home Upgrade
- Choose the billing cycle and confirm it
- Pay the new subscription
Let’s see the steps in detail.
Open the Microsoft account management page and log in to your Microsoft account that you used to purchase the subscription earlier. Here you have to click on the All subscriptions button under the Subscriptions sign.
After that, you should get an option called Upgrade to Office 365 Home.
Click on it and choose a billing cycle. You can select a monthly or annual billing date. It is also possible to choose your credit card if you have included more than one card in your account. Therefore, click on the To confirm button and make payment.
After successful payment, you can share your Office 365 subscription with five other people, and they’ll get all the benefits, as mentioned before.
I hope this guide will help you quickly upgrade or downgrade the Office 365 plan.