Microsoft Office 365 not working since update to Catalina

Since I updated to Catalina, MS Word and Excel from Office 365 do not work. I have a subscription and get automatic updates but I have also checked manually to confirm I am on the latest version of 365 and I am. When I try to open Word I get a message to say 'Verifying "Microsoft Word.app"' That then disappears and I have to Force Quit Word, which has never opened. When I right-click on the icon in the dock for the Force Quit, I can also see "Application not responding".


Elsewhere, someone suggested using Pages instead but I don't want to use Pages not do I want to use Numbers instead of Excel.


Anyone have a solution to this?

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 21, 2019 5:45 AM

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Posted on Oct 22, 2019 9:41 AM

Success! I uninstalled and re-installed Office 365 and both Word and Excel are now working.


Thank you to everyone who tried to help

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Oct 21, 2019 7:04 AM in response to isabella60

another thing that I saw is that users that have updated to Mojave having troubles with Microsoft apps, some users try to update via App Store and the version they have is the version from Microsoft website.

Try to give a look here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/microsoft-office-and-the-mac-app-store-ad2293a8-f5aa-4652-ae3f-83dda906d748


might help you a little

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