MacOS15 / Sequoia - problems with Microsoft files

There was a update to Office for Mac that appeared about a hour after I move to Sequoia.

See if there are in /Users/YourName/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs

Look into the Free LibreOffice, it handles MS Office files like Word & Excel, & Page Layout…

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Deleting the Whereby-App on my iPhone did the trick! xlsx and docx are now visible in Quick Look again. Unbelievable… Thanks for this hint/link.

I've got the same type of issue. In my case the word file extension is connected to Canva. If I try to reassign it to Word it says ok and tries to open the file in word but it ends up with the damaged file message. That's even for a file I created in word 30 seconds ago. The same goes for Microsoft Excel files. Same type of message and they're also connected to Canva.

Microsoft Powerpoint made it through for some odd reason.

Running: MacBook Pro M1

MacOS: Sequoia 15.0 Swedish

Same thing happened to me when I updated to Sequoia 15.0 on September 19. I couldn't get into any of my Word documents. But when I tried again on September 21, behold! I could use Word again. The only remaining difference is when someone emails me a Word document, even when I email one to myself from another computer, I can't make edits on the doc. I have to make a "duplicate" first and then can work on the doc that was sent to me.

I am assuming when Apple found out about this problem they fixed it. How about you, are your Microsoft apps working again?

I have an Intel MB Pro and just installed Sequoia. MS Excel now hangs up every time I open it directly -- specifically it cannot build the "recent files" opening page, and must be manually force-quit. But Excel opens and runs Ok if I double-click any pre-existing spreadsheet from the Finder. It looks like Excel is unable to access part of Sequoia's file code.

Microsoft is not to blame here. The finder that should open to select directories / files does not work. Not only for Office apps. For me the problem occurs both for Office and Apple’s core wallpaper application. (I can not open the dialogue to choose files.)

I was here to run away from Windows. With the Sequia, I feel as if I am using Windows again.

9/30/24, I cannot save Office .doc(x) or .ppt(x) files once created on a MacAir running Sequoia 15. .xls files seem to have converted and work ok.

Last week, I had to cut and paste a .doc document to a Pages file in order to capture and distribute the work, b/c it could not be saved or exported.

I have been unable to print .ppt(x) files or export to 2 slides/pg .pdf.

This fixed a bit the quicklook preview problem for docx documents for me, but only on files saved on the desktop and not in other folders and it only works until you restart (Curious!): Pages no longer opens Word (.docx) docume… - Apple Community

Potrebbe essere il database di avvio corrotto, esegui l'operazione Ottieni informazioni su un file Illustrator. Tasti CMD+i, quindi 2/3 verso il basso cerca Apri ***..., seleziona l'app Illustrator e fai clic sul pulsante Cambia tutto.

There is some sort of solution on the Microsoft chatboard from May 28, 2021 for a similar problem. Too long to type but maybe you can find it with this info: "In response to Clark Cui MSFT post on May 28, 2021"

I have not tried this yet.

All office365 programs just hang restart word it hangs. Restart M1 Mac word works for 5-10 mins then hangs completely. All updates for office done even the latest beta just hangs the same!

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