Microsoft Office issue

[D14]

Help hopefully. I bought Office for Mac in 2017 and its worked fine. Had a new iMac and installed the software from the original download purchase email without any issue. However on the new iMac now running the 2017 Office software it wants me to subscribe to Office 365 to be able to save and edit documents.
I've already paid for the software once so am I missing something here or is microsoft going to shaft me?

 

[Chris F]

Office 365 is the online service. You would probably need that to use onedrive. But you should be able to ignore that and save everything locally.

To be honest we have all the correct 365 licences here and it still doens't work properly and I get errors like that all the time.

 

[Kidds]

Have you tried just signing in to your account?
If you use the web browser based version it will work without signing up for the 365. It is getting harder to stick with the 2017 version though sadly.

 

[ollie989898]

Might be worth contacting Microsoft's support line.

I use Office 365 a lot and have it installed on a few machines. Works well for us.

 

[sjt01]

I recommend Libre Office to get out of Microsoft's clutches. Free, download and go. Versions for different operating systems.

 

[ollie989898]

I recommend Libre Office to get out of Microsoft's clutches. Free, download and go. Versions for different operating systems.

Libre Office is a great program but the sheer power and capabilities of Office 365 blew me away.

 

[Cowabunga]

I used Libre office for several years but had to get Microsoft Office for my VAT bridging software. In fact I subscribed to Office365 for £60 annually, although my new Mac came pre-installed with Office. The main difference is that I believe Office365 updates automatically to the latest version and it can store and synchronise accounts in the Cloud for access on several machines and sharing.
As said above, you do not have to subscribe to 365 and your existing software should continue to work as before.