

When downloaded from the Mac App Store, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint require an Office 365 subscription to create and edit documents. Microsoft Office apps from the Mac App Store will require an active Office 365 subscription to unlock full functionality, similar to Office apps on iOS. Office apps have long been available on the Mac, but not through the Mac App Store despite Office apps on iOS through the iPhone and iPad App Store. The company has published a new support document detailing how to activate Microsoft Office when downloaded from the Mac App Store. Microsoft has also signaled that its Office apps are landing on the Mac App Store any moment now. Discover all the apps of the Office suite, and start collaborating and creating! To subscribe, register in any of the Office apps, and update your subscription. Your Office 365 subscription gives you access to all the features on all the platforms. We are proud to announce that Microsoft Office 365 is now available on the Mac App Store. Roughly translated from French, the story reads:

The same promotional story hasn’t reached the App Store in the United States, and the Microsoft apps don’t appear on the Mac App Store yet either. In a few regions around the world including France, Apple is running a promotional story highlighting Mac App Store availability for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. That appears to be changing any moment now. MacOS Mojave launched last fall, but Office hasn’t quite reached the Mac App Store yet. Instead, customers searching the Mac App Store for Office, Word, PowerPoint, or Keynote will find apps taking advantage of the popular search terms. Microsoft has a half-dozen apps on the Mac App Store today, including OneDrive and OneNote, but the full Microsoft Office suite has not been available on the Mac App Store to date. Microsoft was named alongside Panic and Bare Bones Software as developers who plan to bring their apps to the Mac App Store either for the first time or once again. macOS Mojave introduces a redesigned Mac App Store with new editorial content promoting popular and updated software. The announcement was made as part of Apple’s macOS Mojave operating system keynote demonstration. Apple first announced that Microsoft would bring Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to the Mac App Store back in June 2018 as part of its Worldwide Developer Conference. Microsoft Office appears to finally be headed for the Mac App Store as soon as this week, based on a couple of clues. Update: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook are now live on the Mac App Store.
