Looking to purchase Microsoft Office, 2019, home and student, one time purchase. Can anyone advise:

Is Microsoft Office 2019 Classic home and student compatible with Catalina 10.15.2? Any bad bugs or other issues in the package? I found some conflicting information on the web regarding this and ** looking for some first- hand information.


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Jack342

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 29, 2019 12:27 PM

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Posted on Dec 29, 2019 12:43 PM

Office for Mac running macOS Catalina

If you have Office 2011 for Mac or before WILL NOT run.


Office 2016 for Mac needs to be v15.35 or later.

Update the software or try an alternative for word documents—

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-history-office-for-mac


The current Office for Mac; Office 365 or Office 2019 (One-time purchase) are OK with Catalina

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/how-do-i-upgrade-office-ee68f6cf-422f-464a-82ec-385f65391350

https://products.office.com/en-us/compare-all-microsoft-office-products?&activetab=tab:primaryr1


To activate a Microsoft Office 365 subscription you simply enter the email address you used when you extended the subscription with Microsoft.




or try an alternative for word documents—

Pages.app built into the macOS https://support.apple.com/pages

LibreOffice shareware/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/


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Dec 29, 2019 12:43 PM in response to Jack342

Office for Mac running macOS Catalina

If you have Office 2011 for Mac or before WILL NOT run.


Office 2016 for Mac needs to be v15.35 or later.

Update the software or try an alternative for word documents—

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-history-office-for-mac


The current Office for Mac; Office 365 or Office 2019 (One-time purchase) are OK with Catalina

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/how-do-i-upgrade-office-ee68f6cf-422f-464a-82ec-385f65391350

https://products.office.com/en-us/compare-all-microsoft-office-products?&activetab=tab:primaryr1


To activate a Microsoft Office 365 subscription you simply enter the email address you used when you extended the subscription with Microsoft.




or try an alternative for word documents—

Pages.app built into the macOS https://support.apple.com/pages

LibreOffice shareware/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/


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Dec 29, 2019 12:44 PM in response to Jack342

Office 2019 for Mac is completely supported for macOS Catalina. Personally I recommend the Office 365 subscription as a more value option. Office 365 is $70/yr for a single user subscription. Office 2019 is $149.00 for the Home/Student edition which covers about two years of the subscription. Relying on the “web” for accurate information is iffy at best, and usually distorted by anonymous sources that may have agendas.

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Dec 29, 2019 2:40 PM in response to leroydouglas

Pages is installed into macOS by Apple on new Macs, and must be accepted in the Mac App Store before usage. It is a free, layered application, not built into the operating system, and available to anyone with an older Mac that meets the current Pages installation criterion of upgradability to Mojave or Catalina.

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