When my Mac updated I am unable to access Excel. I had purchased the one time offer of Office Home & Business 2024. I now get an error message of OneDrive can't start. This only applies to Excel and not to any of the other Microsoft applications.
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Original Title: OneDrive can't start Excel
MacBook Air 15″, macOS 15.6
Disable Excel’s OneDrive/Autosave integration
This bypasses the failing cloud startup.
This alone fixes it for many users.
Disable Excel’s OneDrive/Autosave integration
This bypasses the failing cloud startup.
This alone fixes it for many users.
Certain misconceptions that persist regarding the relationship between Apple Computer and third-party applications, extensions,
This would include MS OneDrive and MS Excel applications
These misconceptions often arise when third-party products fail to function or meet user expectations.
This responsibility lies solely with the third party developer ( MS Windows ) to evaluate the performance of their products when used on an Apple Computer running the intended version of macOS.
How to contact an app developer
There was no option for Save to OneDrive. This did not work.
Inthecountry404 wrote:
There was no option for Save to OneDrive. This did not work.
Ask them again if you want
Though and be aware
The Apple Support Community Forums are sometimes visited by AI / LMM / ChatBots.
Wherein, some of material submitted may not be their or not licensed to the user
AI / LLM are basically a Super Version of Predictive Text which is based upon a Data Set.
When that Data Set is based upon older data points, the outcome of the response will be equally out dated and / or unreliable
AI is also the newest form for Data Mining by Large Corporations.
Suggest being very careful about this.
As for the Moniker assigned in that suggestion , in this specific instance, forget that too
How to resolve 'OneDrive can't start Excel' error on Mac after updating?
