Or, you can use Google Docs or Open Office or something else. Its latest version supports Windows 10 and Office 2016 to activate it for free forever. You can just use Pages and Numbers, which you get for free with your Mac. Using WOW64, an x86 emulator, ARM chips can run 32-bit apps. If having Word and Excel aren’t important enough to you to spend $70/year, then there are alternatives. But I’d imagine eventually it will be subscription-only. For more information on the different versions of Office for Mac, see the Deployment guide for Office for Mac. View the Microsoft Support Lifecycle information for Outlook 2016 for Mac. The old method where people bought it as cheap as possible and then didn’t update for 10+ years was killing the industry.Īs you can see wit that link they still do offer a “Office Home & Student 2019” one-time purchase for $150 if you really want that. Outlook and Outlook for Mac: Update File Versions Article History.
Software subscriptions are the way things are going as the developers need a sustainable way to update software. A regular one is $100 per year, and they have a personal subscription for only $70 per year. You can use the current versions in the Mac App store with an Office 365 subscription. Catalina only supports modern 64-bit apps. So it sounds like you were using very old versions of Word and Excel that were 32-bit.
