

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook require a Microsoft 365 subscription to activate. The Office apps available from the Mac App Store provide the very latest version of Office on the Mac.


What version of Office is available from the Mac App Store? * These apps were also available from the Mac App Store in previous years. Starting in January 2019, the following Office applications are available for download from the Mac App Store: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote*, and OneDrive*. You could definitely try that, but as mentioned by Ezekiel, this would probably cause your license to expire.This article covers frequently asked questions about the availability of Office from the Mac App Store, and the differences between downloading Office apps directly from Microsoft. Is there a way around this, such as editing my /etc/hosts file so that Office cannot "phone home"? Note that this only applies if you activated Office 2019 over the Internet, so if you owned a license key, you could use it and hopefully get rid of "reactivations". The easiest way to prevent this annoyance is to stay logged in, or log in and out periodically. If you activated the software by Internet, you may be required to periodically reconnect to the Internet while using the software to confirm the license associated with the licensed device and if you do not reconnect, the software may operate with reduced functionality. When you connect to the Internet while using the software, the software will automatically contact Microsoft or its affiliate to confirm the software is genuine and the license is associated with the licensed device. Yes, I would be annoyed too, but you seem to have activated Office 2019 with your Microsoft account and this "reactivation" behavior is specifically mentioned in the license terms for Office 2019:
