Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
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How to activate desktop microsoft for editing function
I have updated my mac to the lateste version but failed to activate Microsoft office on desktop to edit my documents
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How to activate editing in Word so that I can edit in Word because I cannot presently edit in Word
As of today, I can no longer edit in Word. I have a subscription and I cannot edit in Word. I want to edit in Word.
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,701 questions
asked 2026-08-14T19:21:10.3333333+00:00
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I canNOT activate my Microsoft Word, and this has been ongoing since August 8, 2026.
I have a new MacBook Pro, and Microsoft Word/Excel is never able to open up and be used. This is very, very, poor professional, corporate service.
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,701 questions
asked 2026-08-22T22:08:47.4066667+00:00
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Trudy Gilbert
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commented 2026-08-22T22:41:24.2433333+00:00
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Microsoft Word - only readable in WebLayout
Suddenly, when I open some Word documents, makes changes and save, I can only see the entire text if I use web layout. I also started to receive pop out boxes when working in my word documents saying that i cannot include objects or photos. I close the…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,701 questions
asked 2026-08-19T15:08:12.89+00:00
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Björn Olofsson
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answered 2026-08-22T19:19:36.56+00:00
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Unexpected destination when clicking on Table of Contents entry.
Way back when, I must have autogenerated a TOC of the dozen short stories in my book. All is well except the link of story 10 lands on story 8. Thanks!
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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asked 2026-08-22T16:55:37.72+00:00
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Kim Clark
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answered 2026-08-22T18:39:36.9566667+00:00
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Word is Unusable on MAC OS Tahoe- How is Microsoft Able to Help Me With This?
I've been a microsoft 365 subscriber for years. I just upgraded my macbook air 2022 to mac os Tahoe and word is almost unusable it is so slow. Where are Microsoft's instructions to fix this?
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,701 questions
asked 2026-08-22T18:12:44.3066667+00:00
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Molly Torra
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answered 2026-08-22T18:12:58.28+00:00
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Microsoft Home Not Working Because of Forced Attempt at 365
I purchased a lifetime license for Microsoft Home in 2023 and as of today I cannot access any of my ALREADY PAID FOR services because the apps are continuously attempting to make me subscribe to Microsoft 365. I do not want a new service. I do not want…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,701 questions
asked 2026-08-22T06:14:57.85+00:00
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Allison Rowe
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commented 2026-08-22T16:05:38.79+00:00
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selecting a group of words to copy
I have always been able to select a group of words to copy and paste by clicking the touch pad and dragging the cursor over the words to highlight them. I'm suddenly unable to do this and can't copy a group of words to another document. Does this have to…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,701 questions
asked 2026-08-22T14:40:11.84+00:00
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BETHANY M HAYS HAYS
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answered 2026-08-22T15:56:37.3266667+00:00
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Can't open a new word document
I installed Office in 2019. I had been using Word ever since. Suddenly and without warning I am now not able to open a new word document. Why? And how do I fix it?
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,701 questions
asked 2026-08-21T22:17:07.4833333+00:00
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Jim Hynes
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Add-ins stoped working in Word and Outlook + Authenticity problems
I have Office 365 (package 16.88 dd 13 August 2024) installed on my iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015 (macOS 12.7.6.). The main problem is that add-ins stopped working in Word/Outlook. When trying to access my account on microsoft.com there's this error…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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asked 2026-08-21T11:38:40.5266667+00:00
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Maksim Serbakov
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commented 2026-08-21T18:03:23.8833333+00:00
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Document function is unable to click
Greeting. I'm using Office Home & Student 2021 on my macbook m2 and after the latest office update document function in word app is unable to click and vertical alignment is not available too. Please I need a quick solution to solve these issues. I…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,701 questions
asked 2025-11-20T13:54:42.65+00:00
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Fahd Saeed
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commented 2026-08-21T08:25:43.8033333+00:00
Stefan Blom
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error code 0x0 when trying to activate 365
Opened Word today and got alert saying I need to activate 365 to create and edit. I clicked on 'activate' and got error code 0x0. Hot to fix? My 365 subscription is up to date as is OS and Word. Why is this happening now?
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,701 questions
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can't activate word on Mac given 0x0
my Mac updated and now when I try to access my word documents it asks me to activate but when I try to sign in it comes up with an error code 0x0 and then I can only read documents
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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asked 2026-08-20T21:09:59.52+00:00
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Elizabeth Bull
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commented 2026-08-20T21:42:03.8866667+00:00
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Word For Mac Quitting Due to Memory Leak
Word crashes after about 1 day's use, every time. I can see that it is being killed by my Mac due to a memory leak (Activity Monitor shows the memory usage of Word growing steadily from about 500M to 10G at which point my Mac presumably kills it). I…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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asked 2026-04-06T14:42:27.2366667+00:00
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commented 2026-08-20T18:35:21.8933333+00:00
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N. J. Schrock
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Help. Can't update, renew, open Word
I have a MAC. Can't renew, open or use my Word documents.m Help! Please have someone call me so I can talk to a human. My cell is PII Removed. Help. Urgent.
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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asked 2026-08-19T21:07:29.8533333+00:00
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Richard Negrin
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answered 2026-08-19T21:22:34.03+00:00
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Microsoft subscription
I subscribed for Microsoft office but cannot since 12th,August 2026
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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asked 2026-08-19T13:38:48.47+00:00
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Abraham Kiplimo
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answered 2026-08-19T13:45:08.57+00:00
Stefan Blom
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Word resizing windows (Word for Mac)
How do I make Word stop automatically resizing windows when I move from one application to another? I've already gone into Settings and made adjustments there, and it's driving me crazy that Word keeps resizing my document windows as I move across…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,701 questions
asked 2026-05-01T15:13:47.42+00:00
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RPBrown
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commented 2026-08-19T12:58:14.47+00:00
Stefan Blom
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Questions about Microsoft Office
I recently bought Microsoft Office but can't use it due to my MacBook can't go to the latest IOS required upgrade. Need help.
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
4,701 questions
asked 2026-08-19T06:17:56.3866667+00:00
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Adrian Torres
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answered 2026-08-19T10:00:16.49+00:00
Stefan Blom
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Support of Word on MacBook Air
I am unable to write on my Word program as Apple says it no longer supports it. I am a writer. All attempts to upgrade Word have failed for months. I cannot get along without submitting my written profiles and assignments. I need access to WORD…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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asked 2026-08-18T17:59:32.7933333+00:00
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Denise Dailey
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answered 2026-08-19T02:12:15.0133333+00:00
Bob Jones AKA CyberTaz MVP
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Downloaded Office Home 2024 on my mac but can't use apps
When I go to app, i.e. Excel, it's telling me that I need to login to Microsoft 365. It says my 2019 Excel does not support app. I used product key through my account but can't use software on my mac. Please advise.
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | MacOS
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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