Office Home & Student for iMac 2019 will no longer update

Why am I noticing now that my Office Home & Student Excel program no longer updates when it's requesting me too within an excel worksheet. It seems all of a sudden my excel worksheets have started to hang when I am working in them, making it impossible to save the documents or work in them. Is there something new I need to know, or take care of?


I am using macOS Sonoma Version 14.3


Thank you.

Sue

Posted on Jan 29, 2024 7:52 AM

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Posted on Jan 29, 2024 8:25 AM

The latest version is Microsoft Office Home & Student 2021. Microsoft does not do free upgrades between major versions (e.g. 2019 to 2021) of one-time purchases of Office.

If you subscribe to Microsoft 365 instead of doing one-time purchases, they do provide continuous upgrades as long as you continue to subscribe.


You can see both options and buy either at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/buy/microsoft-365

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Jan 29, 2024 8:25 AM in response to mouse_sg

The latest version is Microsoft Office Home & Student 2021. Microsoft does not do free upgrades between major versions (e.g. 2019 to 2021) of one-time purchases of Office.

If you subscribe to Microsoft 365 instead of doing one-time purchases, they do provide continuous upgrades as long as you continue to subscribe.


You can see both options and buy either at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/buy/microsoft-365

Jan 29, 2024 9:07 AM in response to mouse_sg

mouse_sg wrote:

Afternoon,
Thank you for your quick response. So, if I subscribe to the Microsoft 365 Personal it will continue functioning as is? Or, do I have to remove the old program first before subscribing? So are they no longer selling one-time purchased Microsoft 365?

Thank you.

I'm not sure what you need to do with your old version (I subscribed to Microsoft 365 without having previously had a one-time installation on this computer) or if it will upgrade directly to the current version. The following is all I found from Microsoft https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/end-of-support-for-office-2019-for-mac-f2cbba0a-0773-4b2c-b417-b20b5bb2c757


so you may wahttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/buy/microsoft-365


or use their support forum:https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_install-msoffice_OfH-mso_OPMac?sort=LastReplyDate&dir=Desc&tab=All&status=all&mod=&modAge=&advFil=&postedAfter=&postedBefore=&threadType=all&isFilterExpanded=true&page=1


They still sell the one-time purchase but not that the name "Microsoft 365" indicates the subscription, not the one-time purchase. Click on https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/buy/microsoft-365 then scroll down and look for



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