How to Update Microsoft Office Apps (Windows and Mac)

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For receivingnew features, security updates, and fixes for known issues, it’s important to keep your applications up to date. Here, we’ll show you how to update Microsoft Office apps on Windows and Mac.

How to Update Microsoft Office on Windows

Open a Microsoft Office application to a new or existing document and follow these steps to check for available updates.

If you obtained your Microsoft Office suite from the Microsoft Store, you can check there for updates too.

How to Update Microsoft Office on Mac

Open a Microsoft Office app on your Mac like Microsoft Word or Excel. Then, follow these steps to check for and download available updates.

To turn on automatic updates, check the box forAutomatically keep Microsoft Apps up to date. When one is available, you’ll receive a message letting you know.

If you obtained your Microsoft Office suite through the Mac App Store, you can also check there for updates.

Open theApp Storeon your Mac and visit theUpdatessection. If you see one or more Microsoft Office applications in the list, selectUpdateorUpdate Allto install them.

It’s important to keep your applications up to date and Microsoft makes it easy to do this for its Office apps on Windows and Mac.

For more, look at how tosee which version of Microsoft Office you have.

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How to Update Microsoft Office Apps (Windows and Mac)

How to Update Microsoft Office on Windows

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