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Re: Microsoft Office update question

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On 10 Feb 2025 at 19:50:38 GMT, "Amanda Ripanykhazov"
<licensedtoquil@gmail.com> 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).

-- 
Tim

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  Re: Microsoft Office update question TimS <tim@streater.me.uk> - 2025-02-10 22:00 +0000
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