Ihave a Late 2012 27 inch iMac running Catalina 10.15.7. I currently have Office 2011 which no longer works since upgrading to Catalina which I was aware of. I would like to buy the Office 2021 Home & Student (Perpetual Licence). My wife & I use the same machine (2 users). Do I need to buy 2 copies of Office 2021? I don't want to buy Microsoft 365 Family but from a cost perspective, if I have to buy 2 copies of Office 2021 it may make a little more sense.
Stick with Office 2021 for Mac when exchanging documents with PC users. You wil be able to work on the MS documents in native document mode. Apple's Pages/Numbers/Keynote are not MS clones. They import the MS documents via translation into Apple's respective application document formats (.pages, .numbers, .key) leaving the original MS document unchanged. Then, you must translate (again) those proprietary Apple document formats back to their MS document counterparts via Export. Apple does not guarantee any part of this translation process will be accurate, or if the Microsoft or Apple dependencies too great, successful either.
There definitely wasn't a miscommunication with the Apple advisor. She clearly responded that Office 2021 Home & Student was not compatible with my late 2012 iMac and I would either need to go with Microsoft 365 or find a copy of Office 2019.
Mission accomplished. I first removed Microsoft Office 2011 from my iMac--I started by removing the application and then dug a little deeper to remove the other Microsoft files. I am definitely an amateur and after some googling I was able to get through it. Not all internet searches provided accurate detailed information on the removal of Office 2011. I purchased the Office 2021 Home & Student from the Microsoft site, got my product key and off I went. Downloaded the program and installed it. Everything is working as hoped for both users of our iMac.
I took a brief look at Apple iWork and I have used Pages and numbers in the past. Most of the people I interface with use PC's so the documents still need to be in MS Word or Excel formats. I don't think this can happen with Apple iWork but I may be wrong on that.
I have been a bit confused about Microsoft Office Home and Student 2021 when sharing a Mac. There seems to be conflicting information from multiple vendors. On most sites I see it as "For 1 PC or Mac" and "For 1 Person". Here is the Microsoft site that shows it better -ca/microsoft-365/p/office-home-student-2021/cfq7ttc0h8n8?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab. I wonder if that applies more to a PC but not a Mac?
I may have also stumbled on another problem that Office 2021 is shown on the Apple site as not being compatible with our late 2012 iMac. So even though I have updated it to Catalina 10.15.7 the iMac may still be too old???
The number of individual users on a given machine is only limited by the computer's available resources; the MS app itself cal be installed on only one computer if it's the stand alone version. The number of users for Microsoft 365 is determined by the plan you buy: either 2 or 6 .. I think.
Our iMac is a good machine that is more than capable of what we need to do. I am hoping to squeeze a few more years out of it by updating it as much as possible now before the next major OS update prevents me from doing that.
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2021 provides classic Office apps and email for families and students who want to install them on one Mac or Windows PC for use at home or school. Classic versions of Office apps include Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Operating System: Office for Mac is supported on the three most recent versions of macOS. As new major versions of macOS are made generally available, Microsoft will drop support for the oldest version and support the newest and previous two versions of macOS.
\n Microsoft Office Home and Student 2021 provides classic Office apps and email for families and students who want to install them on one Mac or Windows PC for use at home or school. Classic versions of Office apps include Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.\n
\n Operating System: Office for Mac is supported on the three most recent versions of macOS. As new major versions of macOS are made generally available, Microsoft will drop support for the oldest version and support the newest and previous two versions of macOS.\n
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