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Extend your Office 365 Home subscription with Office 365 Personal vouchers

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Microsoft offers two Office 365 plans for home users:Personal and Home. The personal cost is $7/month and includes all the standard Office apps on desktop and mobile, plus one terabyte of OneDrive storage and 60 minutes of Skype Credit per month. For $10/month, Home gives you all of this for five individual users. Clearly, if you have more than one person using the subscription, Home is the best option.

If you're a Home subscriber, you may have noticed that some new PCs come with a coupon for a free year of Office 365 Personal. Because Microsoft will not allow you to have two subscriptions on one account, you may have gifted or removed the subscription.

But there's good news:You can use an Office 365 personal coupon to extend your Office 365 Home subscription!

Go to your Office account page and click Enter your product key . Enter your personal coupon key, and you can choose to add nine months to your starter subscription or switch to Personal for one year. Obviously, Home is the best option as it supports more users and devices.

Now you know those coupons flying around aren't useless. If you're thinking of buying a new PC soon and your Office subscription is almost up, consider that code worth $90!

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Do you use Office 365 and have you seen these coupons? Let us know if you have a personal product key that you will use to extend your starter subscription!