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Apr 4, 2026 | 5:03 am

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LIH Prem

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Originally Posted by Finkface

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.

Migration assistant, but you need the old mac to be running or have a time machine backup. If you are using iCloud to backup your Documents folder you can set that up on the new machine easily also.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102613

If none of that is feasible, copying over the Documents folder from the backup drive would also be fine.

-David

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