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Overleaf Pro

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iSchool faculty, researchers, students, and staff have access to Overleaf Pro through our UW Enterprise agreement.

Overleaf is an online LaTeX editor that’s easy to use. It offers a no-installation solution, real-time collaboration, version control, hundreds of LaTeX templates, and more. This is primarily used to write formal papers and articles, and is heavily used by faculty, researchers, and PhDs.

To gain access to Overleaf pro please follow one of these two options:

Option 1: Existing Overleaf account without UW email linked
  • Log in to Overleaf (https://overleaf.com) with your non-UW email
  • In account settings, add your UW email (your_netid@uw.edu)
  • Log out, then log in with “Log in with SSO” using your @uw.edu email
Option 2: New to Overleaf or UW email already linked to account 
Note: Using this option when you have an account not linked to your @uw.edu email may result in 2 accounts with separate access levels and data

FAQ:

Q. I’m not sure what this is, do I need to do anything?
A. If you don’t write cited and formatted papers, articles, books or other materials that you would use LaTeX to format, then you likely don’t need Overleaf.

Q. I have two accounts and only one has access to Overleaf Pro, what can I do?
A. Transfer ownership of any data out of the newest account and to your most established account. Delete the empty account. Log in to your primary account and set a secondary email address using that of the deleted account. Your accounts will be effectively merged. When your @uw.edu email address is associated with your account and you log in via SSO login you will have access to Overleaf Pro features.

Q. Where can I learn more about Overleaf? How do I format stuff using this?
A. Please refer to the Overleaf Documentation. iSchool IT is not versed in LaTeX formatting and cannot offer usage guidance.