Transfer Microsoft Office From Mac To New Mac

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I tried to do this with Migration Assistant (OS Lion to OS Lion) and it did not work. I called Microsoft, and they suggested various things, but in the end the following worked:

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If you have a perpetual license, then you have to reinstall Microsoft Office 2016 on your old Mac. Then you can use Apple's migration assistant to bring the installation forward to your new Mac. It's the only way, as perpetual licenses are not transferable from one Mac to another. How to move your content to a new Mac - Apple Support.

a) Make sure that there is NO copy of Office 2008 on the new computer. (Go into applications and get rid of the folder if it is there, and then empty your trash).


b) Go back to your old computer and copy the entire Microsoft Office 2008 folder (which you will find in Applications) onto a memory stick or portable hard disk (it is about 1.4 gigs), and then copy that folder into the Applications folder of your new computer.

Transfer Microsoft Office From Mac To New Mac Pro

  1. You can connect an external hard drive, SD card, or thumb drive to your old computer, copy your files to it, then eject that device from the old computer, plug it into the new Mac, and copy the.
  2. I recently bought a new MacBook to replace my iMac where used Microsoft Office for Mac. I set up my MacBook and transferred everything over, but couldn't run Office without the activation key. I deleted and installed a trial of office 365, and used until the trial expired.
  3. If you choose to replace, the old account will delete and then replace the account on your new Mac, including everything in its home folder. Click Continue to start the transfer. Large transfers may need several hours to be completed. After Migration Assistant has finished, log in to the migrated account on your new Mac to see its files.


c) Launch it on your new computer. It will take you through registration, etc, but it should work.


NOTE: Doing it this way works fine for everything but Entourage. This will not migrate some of your Entourage data, according to Microsoft.

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NOTE 2: If the above does not work, erase all MS OFFICE 2008 files/folders from your new mac and create a new user profile and start again.

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Feb 16, 2012 10:54 AM