Do I have to purchase Word for my mac as I downloaded monterey and it does not work. If I do purchase 78.99/year will my old documents still be in word?
Mac Pro
As we have no idea what version of Office for Mac was installed and what version of Mac OS you upgraded from to get to Monterey your question is difficult to answer.
However, on Monterey it only runs 64bit apps! Office for Mac 2016 (the 64 bit version) or any later version of Office for Mac will work on Monterey. I would recommend upgrading to the 2021 version of Office for Mac or subscribe to Office 365 if you want to stay with Office for Mac. If you are open to alternatives you can use the free version of Libreoffice. All of your old documents are just fine so do not worry about them and will work with the 2021 version of Office for Mac or Office 365 or Libreoffice or the Pages app which is already installed on your computer.
As we have no idea what version of Office for Mac was installed and what version of Mac OS you upgraded from to get to Monterey your question is difficult to answer.
However, on Monterey it only runs 64bit apps! Office for Mac 2016 (the 64 bit version) or any later version of Office for Mac will work on Monterey. I would recommend upgrading to the 2021 version of Office for Mac or subscribe to Office 365 if you want to stay with Office for Mac. If you are open to alternatives you can use the free version of Libreoffice. All of your old documents are just fine so do not worry about them and will work with the 2021 version of Office for Mac or Office 365 or Libreoffice or the Pages app which is already installed on your computer.
You might want to consider using the free, open-source alternatives: LibreOffice and SoftMaker FreeOffice 2018. Both can open, edit and save MS Office files in MS Office formats or their own formats.
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I just downloaded Monterey on Mac now my word processor does not work. Do I have to buy an update for this or other options
