The current Office for Mac Office 365 or Office 2019 (One-time purchase) are OK with Catalina/Big Sur/Montereyīig Sur/Monterey-Microsoft 365 for Mac apps that run natively on Macs with M1. Apple Silicon compatibility in Office 2016 is questionable. I would verify your third party software is up to date and compatible with the macOSīig Sur compatibility-Microsoft recently announced that it was officially ending support for Office 2016 for Mac on October 13, 2020. The thread has since gone stale and I was wondering if anyone had any resolution? There has been a similar thread with many user users complaining about this problem but after 8 pages of comments there still does not seem to be any indicatiopn of the cause nor any real attempt by Apple to solve this. The voices themselves come from the Mac OS. The voice selection is according to the language setting of the Word paragraph. Option + down arrow Skip forward to start of next paragraph. Option + up arrow Skip to start of previous paragraph. The time it takes for this progress bar to disappear and the app to launch varies from about a minute to 15 mintues (when I usually give up and restart in Windows using Bootcamp). CTRL + Option + Space Start Read Aloud Option + Space Play or pause. ' with a progress bar that does not correctly indicate any real progress of the task reportedly being executed. Pretty much every time I try to launch any of the Microsoft Office apps I get a message: Verifying 'Microsoft. I have Microsoft Office for Mac installed and mostly use Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

I have a 2019 iMac (model iMac19,1) with a 6-Core Intel Core i5 CPU running at 3GHz, 8GB RAM and a 1TB HDD (APPLE HDD ST1000DM003).

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