Hi Joe,

I am afraid there is no easy process around this. I'd recommend reaching out to Microsoft Education directly to see what they can do:

https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-microsoft-education-contact-us.html

Answer from Dillon Silzer on answers.microsoft.com
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Dear Mohammad,

Good day, thanks for querying in this forum. We’re happy to help you.

From your description, it seems that you want to use your school account to install free Office applications in Windows 7.

If my understanding is right, for your first question, currently, we’re afraid that there is no such free Office applications for students. Generally, after registering as Education account, you need to contact your Office 365 administrator to assign “The latest version of Desktop App” license to you, then you can install Office 365 office applications. Otherwise, you cannot install or activate office applications. You can choose to use Office for web, and it is free for all Microsoft office users. Free Microsoft 365 Online | Word, Excel, PowerPoint

At the same time, if you have license “The latest version of Desktop App” to install office, according to official article: Windows 7 end of support and Microsoft 365 Apps - Deploy Office | Microsoft Learn Microsoft 365 Apps is no longer supported on Windows 7. Version 2002 is the last version of Microsoft 365 Apps that's available for devices running Windows 7. This means that if you want to use Microsoft 365 Apps on devices that are running Windows 7, you need to use Version 2002. If you try to install a newer version of Microsoft 365 Apps, such as Version 2201, on a device running Windows 7, you'll receive an error message. For more details, you can refer to this thread: Office 356 won't install - Microsoft Community

For your second question about “sign up at office 365 education”, does it mean that you have been required for verification code from your school account? If so, you can go to your email with your school account to get your verification code instead of contacting your school.

If the scenario above is not consistent with yours, you can also post back and provide the screenshot of “its asking for the verification code send to my school's email adress”?

Your understanding and patience will be highly appreciated. I hope that you are keeping safe and well!

Sincerely,

Sukie | Microsoft Community Moderator

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Dear Pranav,

Greetings! Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community.

Please don't worry. Let us work together and find a solution to this scenario.

From your description, it seems your school doesn't provide you with email address to allow you to access Microsoft products and services for free! I am so sorry about this!

  1. Normally, when a school gives you an email, you can access Office apps for free. Now, the other way to get access to Office is to subscribe to a personal Microsoft 365. And this may require you to pay either monthly or yearly. The subscription link is here: Buy Microsoft 365 Family & Personal Subscriptions, and Office 2021 - Microsoft Store.
  2. Also, you can buy a one-time purchase of Office 2021 for Home and Student: Buy Office Home & Student 2021 (PC or Mac) - Download & Pricing | Microsoft Store.

By the way, what kind of Office apps are you most interested in using. Reason i am asking this is that some apps which are provided in school/Education subscriptions are not available in personal subscriptions. Such as SharePoint, Teams, Office for web, etc.

But also, you made a statement that I didn't clearly understand:

and I need that every day in my daily work schedules, for any such reference or validation I'm verified with unidays already and I can share my other education related details.

Could you please explain more about this?

Kindly understand this. Thanks for your cooperation. Please post back to give more information.

Sincerely, 

Edwine | Microsoft Community Moderator.

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But also, you made a statement that I didn't clearly understand:

and I need that every day in my daily work schedules, for any such reference or validation I'm verified with unidays already and I can share my other education related details.

What I meant was I need excel for some data presentations, powerpoint & word to prepare for the presentation of our ongoing group assignments, and for that if you want to get some reference about my student ID I'm verified with Unidays (https************************

[PII removed by MSFT to protect your privacy]

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