The system warned me that if I install Catalina, MS Word (older version) will no longer work.

That would be rather stupid and wasteful, right I am wondering if anyone has had the same issue.

Did it continue to work afterwards Maybe Apple should consider adjusting this new OS so older apps (especially MS word for MAC) continue to function.

Word Excel S Free LibreOffice Suite

You have several options, purchase new Word, use Pages instead, or use the free LibreOffice Suite: Im sure Apple isnt going to be adjusting anything.

Word Excel S Upgrade To 64

Theyve been warning developers to upgrade to 64-bit for years.

Its up to the developers to offer their upgrades as free or paid.

If desired, switch to a product such as LibreOffice.

Office 2011 was never tested on even High Sierra and was retired in Oct 2017.

If you are not prepared to use (and learn) the free LibreOffice which is a 64-bit MS Office clone, then you will have to spend some money on something.

Apples free Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are not Microsoft clones and will not open your Microsoft documents in their native document format, nor export back to Microsoft document formats with original document accuracy.

There are plenty of alternative word processing applications on the market that cost money, and import Word documents.

If you are sharing documents with others that are going to open these documents in MS Office applications, you are far safer sending them documents that originated, or were edited in MS Office (or LibreOffice).

To be honest, the only thing I see with these updates are bug fixes.

Nothing awesome. I have tried LibreOffice and when I was going back and forth between Libre and Word, things didnt match.

Wished I hadnt as now I can not access any of my Microsoft documents without paying.

They give you one month free, but need to pay for the year just under 100, and gets charged next month.

When it is time to upgrade computers, I am going with another company.

Dont forget to check that your apps are compatible when you upgrade the OSs on those new computers.

Word Excel For Mac Updates