Microsoft is offering deal to convince you to subscribe to Office 365. What if you've recently bought a version of Office 2013 or Office for Mac 2011? If you activate or have activated the Office product between Augand December 31, 2015, you can get the equivalent Office 2016 version by paying $40 (opens in new tab).

Office Professional 2016 includes all of the above plus Publisher and Access for $399.99.

Office Home & Business 2016 costs $229.99 and adds Outlook. If you don't want the yearly Office 365 subscription, here's how much the standalone suites cost: Office Home & Student 2016 costs $149.99 and comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. You have to either subscribe to Office 365 to get access to Office 2016 or buy a standalone version of Office 2016. Unfortunately, if you don't have an Office 365 subscription and already bought Office 2013 or an older version of Office as a one-time option, there is no upgrade option. If you'd rather only run monthly replace 0 14 * * 3 with 0 14 1 * *, but there's no real reason to.Upgrade to Office 2016 from Older Versions of Office It won't run if your laptop's off though (solutions here) although it only needs to run once every few attempts. To schedule with crontab type sudo crontab -e in Terminal (or iTerm etc), press i, and enter the following to run this every Wednesday at 2pm: # min hour day_of_month month day_of_week commandĠ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist'ġ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist'Ģ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist'Īpple recommends another way to schedule on MacOS. Another thread suggests it is run after missing 3 updates. If so these commands will need running every 90 days. One thread suggests the nag is run after 90 days without an update. Ppowerpoint: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist' Word: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist'Įxcel: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist' This seems to have worked for me - extracted this from the ResetUpdateMessage script on William's answer.

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