Download Microsoft Excel for macOS 10.13 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. ‎A qualifying Office 365 subscription is required for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. The powerful Excel spreadsheet app lets you create, view, edit, and share your files with others quickly and easily. Office 365 customers get the new Office for Mac first. You’ll have Office applications on your Mac or PC, apps on tablets and smartphones for when you're on the.

Question: I upgraded to Catalina on my Mac and now Microsoft Office won’t work; what can I do?

Answer: One of the side effects of tech companies taking their platforms to new levels is that, often times, older software programs will no longer work.

The most recent version of Apple’s MacOS — known as Catalina — is having a major impact on those who upgraded without understanding that their older 32-bit programs would no longer run.

If your version of Microsoft Office is older than Office 2016 v15.35, you’ll have to choose from a variety of costly or time consuming and complicated options.

If you have Office 2016, you should be able to upgrade to the 64-bit version through Microsoft’s standard upgrade process if for some reason it hasn’t already been updated.

Option 1: Purchase new software

You can purchase the Office Home & Student 2019 bundle from Microsoft for $149.99 or the Office Home & Business bundle for $249.99. The primary difference in the two packages is the business version includes Outlook.

Option 2: Start renting Microsoft Office

Microsoft is trying to get users to convert from a single purchase package that will eventually expire to their subscription 'SaaS' (Software as a Service) platform known as Office 365.

This means you either pay monthly ($6.99 for Home & Student) or annually ($69.99 for Home & Student or $99 for Business) from now on.

Option 3: Switch to Google’s offerings

If your needs for productivity software are very basic, you may find the free options available from Google through a Google Drive account to be acceptable.

It includes Docs, Sheets and Slides which are Google’s version of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, although nowhere near as powerful. Though it’s a web-based tool, there are options for editing your documents when you are offline.

Option 4: Revert back to Mojave

There is no simple way to go back to the previous version (Mojave), so this option is very time consuming and complicated, as you’ll have to wipe your hard drive and reinstall everything. Depending upon which version of the MacOS your computer shipped with, you may have to use an external hard drive to complete the reversion.

How to check for 32-bit programs

For those who are considering an upgrade to Catalina, a good first step is to see what 32-bit programs you are currently running to determine if they are important to you or not.

To do this, click on the Apple icon in the upper left corner, then on 'About This Mac' and then on 'System Report.' When the report opens up, scroll down to the 'Software' section and click on 'Applications.'

An alphabetical list of applications will appear with various details about each one. If you scroll to the far right, you should see a column that says '64-Bit' and the words 'Yes' or 'No' for each application. To make it easier to see the Application Name and whether it’s 64-bit or not, drag the 64-bit header from the far right to the far left so it’s right next to the 'Application Name' column.

Go through the list looking for your critical programs to make sure they are 64-bit or to see if a 64-bit version is available from the creator of the program before upgrading to Catalina.

Ken Colburn is the founder and CEO of Data Doctors Computer Services. Ask any tech question at: facebook.com/DataDoctors.

“Microsoft Word has stopped working.”

(Or Excel, or PowerPoint, and so on.)

Arrrrgh. There are few things as frustrating as your program crashing or failing to start when you really need to use it, whether it’s in Office 2013 or somewhere else. Fortunately, you have a few troubleshooting solutions at your disposal that can get you up and running again without any outside support.

1. Install the latest Windows updates to your computer. Making sure that you’re fully up-to-date, restarting your computer, and then re-launching your application will solve a lot of issues.

2. Try opening the app in safe mode. See instructions for this process in the video below:

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Starting the application in safe mode can help pinpoint if the issue is caused by an Office add-in, which is a common problem. Depending on which app you’re investigating, type the following command:

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• excel /safe to start Excel 2013/2016.
• outlook /safe to start Outlook 2013/2016.
• winword /safe to start Word 2013/2016.
• powerpnt /safe to start PowerPoint 2013/2016.
• mspub /safe to start Publisher 2013/2016.
• visio /safe to start Visio 2013/2016.

According to Microsoft, “If the Office application doesn’t startin Safe Mode, the problem isn’t with add-ins.” If the application does start in safe mode, try disabling your add-ins one at a time:

1. Go to the File tab, and click Options.
2. Select Add-ins.
3. From the Manage list, click COM Add-Ins and click Go.
4. Uncheck one of the add-ins and click OK.
5. Restart the application in regular mode.

Per Microsoft, “If the Office application starts, the COM add-in you unchecked is causing the problem. We recommend you visit the company website for the add-in to find out if there’s an updated version you can install. If there isn’t a newer version or if you don’t need to use the COM add-in you can leave it unchecked.”

3. Reconfigure your video settings. You may be experiencing your Office 2013 issue as a symptom of a video configuration issue with your PC.

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These three solutions should solve the majority of your issues with crashing Office 2013 applications. If you take any other actions that solve a similar problem, please let us know! We may feature it in a post.