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  • Re: Microsoft Office update question

    From Alan B@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Feb 10 20:08:36 2025
    On 10 Feb 2025 at 19:50:38 GMT, "Amanda Ripanykhazov" <[email protected]> wrote:

    I have had and used Word since the dawn of time It has never given any problems. It just always seemed stable on my Mac. I often used to try to update it, usually when some windows product was updating, but it never seemed to update anything in Office

    Suddenly about 6 month ago I got an urgent message to update Microsoft Office. Immediately I got scared.

    To me,it sounded more like Microsoft fishing for people who had lost
    their product key, to stop Office from working until the user had bought
    the license again: (I Haven't got the faintest idea where my product key
    or license documentation is. I certainly havent even seen it for years)

    Now I am up to 4 supposedly urgent product updates!

    Does anyone know what is going on and have a view on whether I should
    dare to let Microsoft update anything?

    I'm not sure if this helpful but here goes! I have a subscription to MS Office 365 as I use it on several devices and I'm not aware of a serial number. Presumably it's licensed via the email address I supplied at purchase time.
    All my updates to MS Office are done via an app called Microsoft AutoUpdate which resides in /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0 which, as you might expect, runs on system start/restart and presumably periodically. If you have got this app installed you could run it manually to double check if you really have any outstanding updates.

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From TimS@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Feb 10 22:00:08 2025
    On 10 Feb 2025 at 19:50:38 GMT, "Amanda Ripanykhazov" <[email protected]> wrote:

    I have had and used Word since the dawn of time It has never given any problems. It just always seemed stable on my Mac. I often used to try to update it, usually when some windows product was updating, but it never seemed to update anything in Office

    Suddenly about 6 month ago I got an urgent message to update Microsoft Office. Immediately I got scared.

    To me,it sounded more like Microsoft fishing for people who had lost
    their product key, to stop Office from working until the user had bought
    the license again: (I Haven't got the faintest idea where my product key
    or license documentation is. I certainly havent even seen it for years)

    Now I am up to 4 supposedly urgent product updates!

    Does anyone know what is going on and have a view on whether I should
    dare to let Microsoft update anything?

    What you do is look in your Applications folder to find an item called Microsoft updater or similar. It may be in a folder. Then you put it in the Trash and empty it.

    I have Office 2016 and there are no further updates for that, so there's no reason for me to have an updater program.

    (I had Office 2008 before that, which was better because that was pre the ribbon nonsense, but it was also only 32-bit).

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    Tim

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  • From RJH@21:1/5 to Amanda Ripanykhazov on Thu Feb 20 04:02:40 2025
    On 10 Feb 2025 at 19:50:38 GMT, Amanda Ripanykhazov wrote:

    I have had and used Word since the dawn of time It has never given any problems. It just always seemed stable on my Mac. I often used to try to update it, usually when some windows product was updating, but it never seemed to update anything in Office

    Suddenly about 6 month ago I got an urgent message to update Microsoft Office. Immediately I got scared.

    To me,it sounded more like Microsoft fishing for people who had lost
    their product key, to stop Office from working until the user had bought
    the license again: (I Haven't got the faintest idea where my product key
    or license documentation is. I certainly havent even seen it for years)

    Now I am up to 4 supposedly urgent product updates!

    Does anyone know what is going on and have a view on whether I should
    dare to let Microsoft update anything?

    I updated my Office 2021 suite regularly. During the updates it morphed into Office 365. Recently - exactly a year after I bought the license - it went
    into read only mode. I couldn't create or save files.

    Fixing involved following this procedure:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-to-remove-office-license-files-on-a-mac-b032c0f6-a431-4dad-83a9-6b727c03b193

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    Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK

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