MacOS15 / Sequoia - problems with Microsoft files

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?

Help, very same issue (Switzerland, french)

In my case, it's automatically linked to Adobe Illustrator !

sunday 22 night, and still impossible to open it, whatever the way.

(Though I reinstalled MSO, but same)

But I still can open them with an old Mac

Update 1: Unfortunately, LibreOffice was unable to resolve the issue. The problem persists when using this app. The only workaround I found is to use the Pages app, save documents in the .pages format, and then export them as .pdf files.

And the macOS still without any updates.

Thank you to VikingOSX.

I followed the suggestion of booting into safe mode then going into Get Info to get it to open a .docx file. Then rebooted the MBP i9 and now it seems to allow me to open the file from Finder or within Open in the Word app.

I don’t know if it is coincidence or actually fixed it, but Word does seem to be able to open the docx.

However the files do not have a little image on the thumbnail icon.

At least I’m another step forward.

I only have Word 16.89. I am not sure how to move to 16.89.1

Having boot into safe mode as suggested on both my M3 Max and the i9, Word now seems to work as suggested.

When you look in Finder, and you look at Kind, it doesn’t say Word doc or docx (the latter didn’t open) but now says Office Strict Open XML word processing document.

whatever that means?

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.

Wallpaper is MacOs ‘s own app (or a functionality) and I am having the same problem with it. That is why.

Blaming Microsoft is an easy escape route. Believe me nobody hates Windows more than me. But in this case Office seems not to the one to blame, because PowerPoint, word are among the apps that are not functioning not all of the apps.

I wasn't attempting to blame Microsoft.:)

Can you test MS Docs open & work corectly with...

The Free LibreOffice, it handles MS Office files like Word & Excel, & Page Layout…

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Nope it is not. I can not even upload the screenshot I have to chrome either (because I can not give Chrome access rights to the disk).

No application can access to disk as they used to before the upgrade.

That is not working either. "Full Disk Access" has the plus sign, when first clicked asks for password, but then stops working and can not be clicked again. I am not sure but it seems like the System Settings can not modify its own disk access rights either.

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.

same issues and was unable to export .doc files to .pdf. ElCaptain's workaround appears to have fixed my issues.

The workaround that worked for me, go to the file with *.docx extension and "right click" to select "Get Info".

From the "Get Info" screen, go to where it says "Open With:", make sure you select "Microsoft Word" and then select "Change All...". This will associate all "*.docx" files back to "Microsoft Word", and no more issues when clicking from the Finder window.

Similarly, do the same for *.xlsx extensions and Microsoft Excel.

Hope this helps everyone. Apple and MS still need to provide an update that fixes this by default on the next update.

It's a scandal that this happens so often with an update and I believe MS is doing this on purpose. Anyway, you can go to a word-file, go to info and change the extension .docx into .doc and then you can open it. The problem does not appear when you try to open recent files, only when you make use of finder to access the document.

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 con..., seleziona l'app Illustrator e fai clic sul pulsante Cambia tutto.

My MacBook Air M1 updated to Sequoia 15.0.1, and at first, I believed the problem would be resolved. However, the error persists. The previous procedure I mentioned, repairing via macOS recovery, would temporarily fix the issue, allowing Word to save without errors, but after a few saves, the error would return.

Unfortunately, Apple has not addressed this open topic, and the issue continues.

To fix this, I'm saving all my documents on OneDrive and only at the end save them as .pdf on my server.

This situation is becoming extremely exhausting.

And I read some people saying the problem is from Microsoft and a disagree. The problem came with the Sequoia 15.0 and persist...