How to get 5 TB of OneDrive storage from your Office 365 Home subscription

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  • You get a terabyte and you get a terabyte and you...

    You get a terabyte and you get a terabyte and you...

    Office 365 Home (formerly known as Home Premium) is unique among the Office 365 subscriptions in that it allows you to share your subscription with up to four household members. Each person you add to your subscription gets a full 1 TB of storage in their personal OneDrive account and has the option to install Office desktop programs or tablet apps as well.

    As the account owner, you manage your subscription by signing in at Office.com. You can completely remove an added user anytime. You can also deactivate another user's Office installation directly from your management portal. Your shared users get to manage their own accounts by signing in at Office.com with their Microsoft account, but they can't see any details associated with the account owner or other shared users.

    For more details about how OneDrive and Office 365 work together, see "Office 365 subscribers now have access to 1 TB of OneDrive storage."

    Caption by: Ed Bott

  • Look in the lower left to check your available storage

    Look in the lower left to check your available storage

    If your Microsoft account is part of an Office 365 Home subscription, you'll have at least 1 TB of storage over and above the default 15 GB every OneDrive user gets. Sign in at OneDrive.com and look in the lower left corner of your OneDrive home page to see how much storage is currently available. Click Get More Storage to open the Storage Dashboard, shown on the next page.

    For more details about how OneDrive and Office 365 work together, see "Office 365 subscribers now have access to 1 TB of OneDrive storage."

    Caption by: Ed Bott

  • Use the Storage Dashboard to confirm your extra storage

    Use the Storage Dashboard to confirm your extra storage

    The OneDrive Storage Dashboard provides details about your OneDrive plan. To confirm that you've received the extra storage associated with your Office 365 subscription, look for the line item under Your Additional Storage. Click the View button at the end of the Office 365 Subscription line to go to your Office 365 account page.

    For more details about how OneDrive and Office 365 work together, see "Office 365 subscribers now have access to 1 TB of OneDrive storage."

    Caption by: Ed Bott

  • Add another household member to your Office subscription

    Add another household member to your Office subscription

    If you're the account owner of an Office 365 Home subscription, your Office.com account home lets you add and remove users from your subscription.

    To add a user click Add User, which opens this dialog box. Enter the email address of the household member you want to add to your account and then click Send Invite. The display will show the invitation as Pending until the invitee receives the email and accepts the shared account offer.

    For more details about how OneDrive and Office 365 work together, see "Office 365 subscribers now have access to 1 TB of OneDrive storage."

    Caption by: Ed Bott

  • Don't click this green button until you've checked one crucial detail

    Don't click this green button until you've checked one crucial detail

    If you're invited to share an Ofice 365 subscription, the invitation will look something like this in your inbox.

    Don't click Accept just yet. Regardless of which email address the invitation was sent to, clicking Accept will link the shared Office 365 Home subscription to the Microsoft account you're currently signed in with. If you have ore than one Microsoft account, that means you could accidentally attach the extra 1 TB of OneDrive storage to the wrong account. (If you're the Office 365 account owner, you can use this feature to give an alternate Microsoft account its own terabyte of extra storage.)

    So before you go further, open your default web browser, go to OneDrive.com, and confirm that you're signed in with the correct Microsoft account. After taking that step, go back to the email invitation and click that green button.

    For more details about how OneDrive and Office 365 work together, see "Office 365 subscribers now have access to 1 TB of OneDrive storage."

    Caption by: Ed Bott

  • The guest account panel lets you install Office from the shared subscription

    The guest account panel lets you install Office from the shared subscription

    After successfully linking a shared Office 365 Home subscription to a Microsoft account, you can manage the account from Office.com. Sign in with the shared user account and then click My Account (in the upper right corner of the Office Online page) to reach this home.

    The green Install button lets you use one of the subscription's five available installs for the current PC or Mac. If you're on a tablet or phone, use the links under the Other Devices heading to download the necessary Office software.

    For more details about how OneDrive and Office 365 work together, see "Office 365 subscribers now have access to 1 TB of OneDrive storage."

    Caption by: Ed Bott

  • Your full allotment of storage is available using OneDrive for iPad

    Your full allotment of storage is available using OneDrive for iPad

    Every Office 365 Home subscription includes the rights to install the Office apps on up to five tablets, including your iPad. From the OneDrive app, you can see the full allotment of available storage on this menu. You can also enable the option to open Office files from OneDrive using the installed Office for iPad apps.

    For more details about how OneDrive and Office 365 work together, see "Office 365 subscribers now have access to 1 TB of OneDrive storage." For more on the Office for iPad apps, see "Microsoft Office for iPad sets the gold standard for tablet productivity."

    Caption by: Ed Bott

  • OneDrive for Android supports photo backup, too

    OneDrive for Android supports photo backup, too

    There's a capable OneDrive app for Android, too. When you sign in with your OneDrive account on a mobile device such as a phone or tablet, you can turn on the option to back up photos from that device to the OneDrive Camera Roll folder. Enabling this option on every device you own lets you consolidate photos in a safe place where they can't be lost if your device is stolen or damaged. It also gives you a central place to edit and organize photos from a Windows PC or a Mac using a full-strength editor.

    For more details about how OneDrive and Office 365 work together, see "Office 365 subscribers now have access to 1 TB of OneDrive storage."

    Caption by: Ed Bott

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Every Office 365 subscription includes 1 TB of storage in OneDrive or OneDrive for Business. With an Office 365 Home subscription, you can share your account with up to four other people, giving your household a total of up to 5 TB of cloud file storage. Here's how.

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You get a terabyte and you get a terabyte and you...

Office 365 Home (formerly known as Home Premium) is unique among the Office 365 subscriptions in that it allows you to share your subscription with up to four household members. Each person you add to your subscription gets a full 1 TB of storage in their personal OneDrive account and has the option to install Office desktop programs or tablet apps as well.

As the account owner, you manage your subscription by signing in at Office.com. You can completely remove an added user anytime. You can also deactivate another user's Office installation directly from your management portal. Your shared users get to manage their own accounts by signing in at Office.com with their Microsoft account, but they can't see any details associated with the account owner or other shared users.

For more details about how OneDrive and Office 365 work together, see "Office 365 subscribers now have access to 1 TB of OneDrive storage."

Caption by: Ed Bott

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