Microsoft Office For Mac M1 Download

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I had a client recently who bought a new M1 Macbook Pro. He needed some help because he said his MS Office / Word application running on his M1 and Big Sur would not authenticate. I screen shared with him and we tried to uninstall and reinstall MS Office and still would not authenticate. Office said it was running under Rosetta 2 of course as there is not a native M1 version at the time of writing this post (Dec 2020) I searched for information on the web about which version of Mac MS Office would work, even on Microsoft’s website and while specific information about Office and the new M1 Macs was sparse, it did seem to say that Mac Office 2019 would work. We downloaded that again, installed and same issue, seemed to just hang and go in circles so it was unusable. Very frustrating Microsoft!

  • Do I need to download and install a separate package if I'm using a Mac with an M1 processor? The Office installation and update packages contain the optimized code for both Apple Silicon and Intel-based devices. This is true regardless of whether you obtain Office from the Mac App Store, or office.com - which uses the Microsoft Content.
  • Download Microsoft 365 for macOS or later and enjoy it on your Mac. ‎A qualifying Microsoft 365 subscription is required for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. A free 1-month trial of Microsoft 365 is included with each Microsoft 365 in-app purchase.

Finally after some more research we seemed to glom onto the idea of using the IOS version of Word, as Big Sur can use (some) IOS apps. We went to the App store and that did seem to work, so just FYI if you have trouble with your new M1 and Office, try using the IOS version of Word, etc. If you don’t see it with the “cloud icon” to download, first get Word app on your iPhone/iPad. Then when you go to the App Store on your M1, you should see the app with the cloud icon, meaning you have downloaded it before, then try installing Word on your M1.

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How to download and install Microsoft Office for free on M1 Macbook or MacOS MS Office 2021. How to Download and Activate Office 2019 on Macbook for a life.

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Some people have discussed using iMazing to get “unofficial” IOS apps onto their M1 computers.

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Hope this helps!