Let's say he has a laptop as well that he takes home and others at home use. So, let's rephrase this so we are eliminating the licensing dilemma that everyone seems to be hung up on. But no one has definitively solved the original question. I'm proud of you and glad you are such good licensing experts. The settings/documents will be unique to each individually licensed user for the devices associated with their license.Įveryone seems knowledgeable in licensing. This is why everyone sees what everyone else is opening, because as far as Microsoft is concerned, these are all supposed to be the same person.Įveryone has to have their own license. You want all of your documents to be available on any of your devices without worrying about having to save them to a USB stick and copy them back and forth and have out of sync versions. What's going on is working as designed because ideally, you want your devices in sync. It's meant to cover for example a person having a Desktop, laptop, tablet, phone or whatever, or in the case of remote working, someone may have a remote pc and an office pc. It's definitely licensed per individual user.

'Use one license to cover fully installed Office apps on five mobile devices, five tablets, and five PCs or Macs per user.'

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