Aug 23, 2018 Can't edit documents in Microsoft Word on Mac. I can't edit documents on my Macbook Pro on Microsoft Office anymore. I have licenses through my university, and I've been able to use it up until about two weeks ago. Fix: Account Doesn’t Allow Editing on a Mac Method 1: Make sure you have the correct license. Method 2: If the problem persists, uninstall and re-install Office 365. Method 3: Activate Office. Office 365 local applications such as Word are, at times.
AutoUpdate 3.0.5 was installed with the last Office update a few days ago. Microsoft has backed off from the mess it made with a new version of AutoUpdate you can download now. The problem only happens if you're using both the Office 2016 preview Microsoft has posted as well as Office 2011.
Support for Office for Mac 2011 ended October 10, 2017. Rest assured that all your Office 2011 apps will continue to function—they won't disappear from your Mac, nor will you lose any data. But here's what the end of support means for you: You'll no longer receive Office for Mac 2011 software updates from Microsoft Update. Oct 07, 2015 Microsoft has released the Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.5.6 update. In addition to the application improvements that are mentioned in this article, Office for Mac 2011 is now available as a subscription offering. For more information about subscriptions, see Frequently Asked Questions. This update has prerequisites. Depending on your operating system, check for Office updates for PC or Office updates for Mac. If you don’t see some of the newer features in your app, you might not have received the update yet or your Office 365 admin restricts Office updates until the features can tested with other programs and add-ins in your organization.
Once you installed the previous version of AutoUpdate, you'd find that it would locate but would be unable to install an update to Office 2011. What's worse, the AutoUpdate program would grab lots of memory and generally make a mess of things. People were running into this problem:
To get past it, the easiest thing to do is to to run AutoUpdate again. It'll find the updated version of itself and install it. To do so, just select the 'Check for Updates' option in the Help menu of any open Microsoft application.
If that doesn't work, or if you don't trust AutoUpdate to do the right thing, you can download the latest updater from Microsoft's web site and install it yourself. That'll download to your Downloads folder as a .pkg file.
That's it.
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