Or, you can use Google Docs or Open Office or something else. have you checked system preferences for login items System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items: any apps listed there will open on. You can just use Pages and Numbers, which you get for free with your Mac. If having Word and Excel aren’t important enough to you to spend $70/year, then there are alternatives. But I’d imagine eventually it will be subscription-only. Your NOOK Tablet has Quickoffice Lite installed, which is an application running on your NOOK Tablet that can open and read Microsoft Office documents. The old method where people bought it as cheap as possible and then didn’t update for 10+ years was killing the industry.Īs you can see wit that link they still do offer a “Office Home & Student 2019” one-time purchase for $150 if you really want that.
Software subscriptions are the way things are going as the developers need a sustainable way to update software. A regular one is $100 per year, and they have a personal subscription for only $70 per year. You can use the current versions in the Mac App store with an Office 365 subscription. Catalina only supports modern 64-bit apps. So it sounds like you were using very old versions of Word and Excel that were 32-bit.