If you have Office 2011 for Mac or before WILL NOT run, For Catalina Office 2016 for Mac needs to be v15.35 or later.īig Sur-Microsoft recently announced that it was officially ending support for Office 2016 for Mac on October 13, 2020. The App Store apps will require you to subscribe to Microsoft 365 Unless you buy from Microsoft: To activate a Microsoft Office 365 subscription you simply enter the email address you used when you extended the subscription with Microsoft. Please help!! I need to use the microsoft word, powerpoint, and excel daily. I really do not want to spend money on buying another microsoft office package. My question is why isn't my old subscription compatible with big sur. From the app store I can open microsoft word however it says 'subscription required to edit and save, start your one month free trial of Microsoft 365 or sign it to activate an existing subscription.'

When I go to app store to update them, its shows microsoft 365 all ready purchased. The traditional version of Windows can currently run on Intel-based Macs via Apple’s Boot Camp virtualization software.Ĭraig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, told Ars Technica in November that the decision was up to Microsoft.After updating to big sur my microsoft office icons all have a white x across them and when I try opening them it says I need to update them. The big unanswered question now is whether Microsoft will change its Windows licensing terms to let the Arm-based version of Windows 10 run natively on M1 Macs. Microsoft says it’s working on a similar M1 universal app update for its Teams collaboration software, which can run in Rosetta emulation mode on Macs with the new chips in the meantime.Īpple released the first Macs with Arm-based M1 chips in November. They’ve also been redesigned to adopt the look and feel of macOS Big Sur. The apps are universal, allowing them to run on Intel-based Macs, as well. Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will run faster on M1 Macs as a result of the update, taking advantage of improved processor performance, says Bill Doll, Microsoft 365 senior product marketing manager, in a post announcing the updates.

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