Originally Posted by
jsnydcsa
I think you can (still) buy MS Office without a subscription
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/micr...4/cfq7ttc0pqvj
https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/...y%20it%20again.
Those links are courtesy of the Google Machine.
As for "need to be able to migrate those files from old to new Mac easily" I know there are all sorts of transfer services out there. But, at the end of the day, what I've found most reliable is just moving my entire Mac "Documents" folder (or wherever you keep ... everything on your Mac) onto a portable SSD drive and then copying over to the new Mac's hard drive. I've never tried to "restore" from a backup of an old machine's backup onto the new machine.
Perhaps nowadays, Apple even offers some sort of "transfer" service either during initial setup of your machine - at home or in store.
Thanks, I will look into that. When I searched, I could only find the option of Office365 with a monthly subscription. I will look harder.
I do back up to a portable SSD (and to the cloud) but I have also never restored from it. I don't know how the "old" docx files from my 2011 Word program will work with the new Office program. I guess I will find out. Apple does generally make it easy. I just got a new iPad and all you do is hold the new device near the previous one and it seamlessly transfers. I don't think it is quite that easy with a Mac though.