Recovered MacBookAir and the availability of Pages/Word and Numbers/Excel

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Lejo.1956 Author

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Recovered MacBookAir and the availability of Pages/Word and Numbers/Excel

I recently recovered a MacBook Air (new Wifi card, new battery). It's woking perfect under Big Sur (newer versions are not an option).

Unfortunately, using Word and Excel, as well as Pages and Numbers seem to be impossible. Using the latter seem to be possible only if you downloaded them previously from Apple Store. And since this is my first, this is perhaps not an option.

Question to the audience, can I stop searching for what appears to be impossible, or does someone knows a possible solution???

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.7

Posted on Nov 17, 2024 7:01 AM

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Answer 1

dialabrain

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Nov 17, 2024 7:10 AM in response to Lejo.1956

Lejo.1956 wrote:

Question to the audience, can I stop searching for what appears to be impossible, or does someone knows a possible solution???

Correct. You cannot download a compatible version of Pages & Numbers if you never have before. And, Microsoft no longer supports Big Sur.

You might find LibreOffice suitable for your needs.

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g_wolfman

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Nov 17, 2024 7:32 PM in response to Lejo.1956

You can still download older versions of Office, although MS doesn't support them anymore and some there is no telling when things like logging into Office 365 or Autoupdate may stop working (they may have already!).

But the last compatible version of MS Office for Big Sur is version 16.77: (https://officecdnmac.microsoft.com/pr/C1297A47-86C4-4C1F-97FA-950631F94777/MacAutoupdate/Microsoft_365_and_Office_16.77.23091003_Installer.pkg)

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