Why does Microsoft annoy Office 2016 for Mac users with the updates bar???

Sebastian Alvarez 1 Reputation point
2021-04-20T15:43:01.56+00:00

A few years ago I bought Office 2016 for Mac thanks to a partner program my then employer had. This was very inexpensive, and I would be happy to pay it again for a newer version, except that that program doesn't exist anymore. Now you get a small discount, but you still have to subscribe and pay monthly. These days everything is by subscription and I'm sick of it!!! A few dollars here and a few dollars there, it all piles up at the end of the month and is a lot of money. So no, I'm not going to subscribe to Microsoft 365 or whatever it's called these days. No matter how small the price, I paid for a full license of Office 2016 for Mac. And it still works, but for the past few months, every time I launch Excel I have to put up with this stupid bar:
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However, when you click on Check for Updates, and the updater opens up, there are no updates to Excel or any of the Office apps. Sometimes there's an update for Edge, which seems to be updated every other day.

I don't expect MS or any company to keep releasing updates for a product forever, but I think it's outrageous that every single time I open Excel (and many times I open Word), I have to close that damn stupid bar that takes up screen space for nothing. I know Microsoft is not releasing more updates for this suite, I'm fine with that. Just don't annoy me with a reminder to upgrade, because no matter how many times you put that damn bar, I'm not going to subscribe to yet one more thing every month!

PS: the new rules in this forum are ridiculous. You are forced to enter a tag and you can't even create your own ones??????

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Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Mac: A family of Apple personal computers that run the macOS operating system.
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  1. Erin Ding-MSFT 4,461 Reputation points
    2021-04-21T07:06:37.367+00:00

    Hi @Sebastian Alvarez

    Please check JohnKorchok's reply.

    If it doesn't work, are there extra copies of your Office applications?
    As far as I know, AutoUpdate may ask you over and over to update when you have more than one copy of an office app on your Mac.
    Please make sure to uninstall other copies of your Office applications completely to check this issue.

    Besides, I find a similar thread, you may refer to Eli Qian MSFT's reply in it.

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  2. I-Cat 76 Reputation points
    2021-04-26T19:24:31.98+00:00

    My Windows 2010 vesion dont have that.
    Maybe dont use it
    Use something better
    I thought mac had there own execel programs

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