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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?

I'm not sure if this helpful but here goes! I have a subscription to MS Office
365 as I use it on several devices and I'm not aware of a serial number.
Presumably it's licensed via the email address I supplied at purchase time.
All my updates to MS Office are done via an app called Microsoft AutoUpdate
which resides in /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0 which, as you
might expect, runs on system start/restart and presumably periodically. If you
have got this app installed you could run it manually to double check if you
really have any outstanding updates.

-- 
Cheers, Alan

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  Re: Microsoft Office update question Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-10 20:08 +0000
  Re: Microsoft Office update question TimS <tim@streater.me.uk> - 2025-02-10 22:00 +0000
    Re: Microsoft Office update question Amanda Ripanykhazov <licensedtoquil@gmail.com> - 2025-02-19 12:33 -0500
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    Re: Microsoft Office update question Amanda Ripanykhazov <licensedtoquil@gmail.com> - 2025-02-19 12:20 -0500
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