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I've recently installed Catalina and now earlier documents I have stored won't open

iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 28, 2020 10:39 AM

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Posted on Apr 1, 2020 6:26 AM

The version with a "No" symbol through it would be Office 2011 or older. Those cannot run in Catalina, nor can any other 32 bit software. It's all dead.


Office 365 works, as you can see. But did you pay for the subscription service and login? Until you do, it only operates as demo software and will not save files.

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Apr 1, 2020 6:26 AM in response to HannyvanDuin

The version with a "No" symbol through it would be Office 2011 or older. Those cannot run in Catalina, nor can any other 32 bit software. It's all dead.


Office 365 works, as you can see. But did you pay for the subscription service and login? Until you do, it only operates as demo software and will not save files.

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