

If you are a PC user there is also Office Professional 2021 for $439/£419, but there is no Mac version of this suite. Microsoft 365 subscribers get updates every month (though organizational subscriptions can choose to upgrade user accounts either semi-annually, every January and July).

Details of how to upgrade to that are on Microsoft’s site here.

Microsoft also offers Office LTSC (Long Term Servicing Channel). Read about Microsoft Office for Mac 2021 in our guide to the latest version of Office. There is also Office Home & Business 2021 ($249.99/ £249.99) which is designed for families and small businesses who want the office apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Outlook isn’t included in this version, but since March 2023 Microsoft has started offering Outlook for free, and you can download that on the Mac App Store. The latest version of Office for Mac for home users is Office Home & Student 2021 ($149.99/ £119.99). If you don’t want to sign up for a subscription and would rather own the software outright, you will be glad to hear that Microsoft continues to sell and update the Office 2021 suite. Despite the name change and a bunch of upgrades at that time, the prices remain the same. The service, previously called Office 365, rebranded as Microsoft 365 in April 2020. If you subscribe you benefit from the fact that you always receive the latest updates to the software, continuously, without the need of having to buy the whole program or suite again. While this is actually painful, but considering the fact that this is a pre-release software, Microsoft will be adding support for 10.13 macOS in the coming months or so, for the rest assured.The latest version of Office for Mac is available via a Microsoft 365 subscription which costs from $69.99/ £59.99 per year or $6.99/£5.99 per month). Since, all applications in the Office for Mac 2011 suite are reaching end of support on October 10th, 2017, Microsoft will not be spending time to test Word, Excel or PowerPoint etc., on macOS 10.13 and no formal support will be provided. For example, users will see the following error message when attempting to launch Outlook 2016 ver. In some cases, you may not be able to launch the Office apps. These versions are not supported on 10.13. For Outlook, choose Contact Support from the Help menu.

In Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, you can click on the Send a Smile icon in the top-right of the app. If you encounter issues using Office 2016 for Mac on High Sierra, please send us feedback so we can address them. We strongly recommend that you back up your existing data before trying the software.
