Software for all Users

New iMac. Purchased MS Office 2011.  Loaded under my Username.  Software doesn't appear in the other Usernames on the same computer.  Do I need to load it for each person?  How can I get it to be accessible to all Users on this computer?

Thanks for double-checking. It's all where it belongs.
I just created a new user (because I have only one, usually), and MS Office was available and fully functional for this user as well, as expected.
IOW, other users on your Mac should also be able to access and use MS Office apps. The only easy way I can think of to prevent it is those user accounts to be restricted, e.g. via Parental Controls. But even then they should be able to see the apps, just be unable to launch them.
If they can't even see MS Office in their Applications folder, like on your machine, that's strange.
Last input from my end before I'd have to give up:
To see if something is "wrong" with the existing other users, you may also create one more new one, just temporarily for testing purposes (you can delete it immediately after again incl its home folder).
- If this new user can't see or access the Office apps either (but other 3rd-party non-Apple apps), something must have gone wrong during the Office install for some reason unknown. It's a royal PITA, but you may want to consider completely deleting Office, then re-installing.
- If this new user can use the Office apps, something must be wrong with the existing other users. Instead of digging deeper, practically the easiest thing you should consider is re-creating these other users from scratch, bringing their data and documents over from the old to the new accounts, then deleting the old ones. I trust you're backing your Mac up, so nothing can get lost.

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