Microsoft Office 2016 does not work with the Catalina OS. What is Mkicrosoft going to do in respect to this?

What will happen to previous Microsoft Office Versions. The latest OS (Catalina) does not support them. Will there be an upgrade or any other solution


The same is true with Quick Time Player 7, Roxio`s Toast Titanium and other 32Bit apps that are not compatible with the present OS version for Mac

Posted on Oct 11, 2019 12:50 PM

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Oct 11, 2019 12:57 PM in response to armandofromquito

QuickTime 7 is 32 bit software and will never be updated. It's dead. Don't know which version of Toast you're referring to.


Office 2016 does work. That it doesn't for you suggests you've never applied any updates. It was originally 32 bit software and MS updated the entire thing to 64 bit quite a while ago.


Download the 16.16.14 update and install it.


It's been two years since Apple started making it known 32 bit software was going to be left behind. With the introduction of Mojave, they came right out said 32 bit software would not run in the next major release of macOS. No OS name at the time, but that is now of course Catalina.

Oct 11, 2019 12:58 PM in response to armandofromquito

Office 2016 for Mac version 15.35 and later is compatible with macOS Catalina.

If you've been updating Office on a regular basis, then you should be fine.

If you did NOT update it prior to installing Catalina, you will have to contact Microsoft or check their support pages for instructions on how to update it after the fact.


QuickTime Player 7 is obsolete.

As for Toast and other 32 bit apps from 3rd parties (including MS Office) you need to contact the app developers to see if they are offering 64 bit versions of their products.

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