Microsoft Autoupdate Office Mac Won't Install

AutoUpdate 3.0.5 was installed with the last Office update a few days ago. Microsoft has backed off from the mess it made with a new version of AutoUpdate you can download now. The problem only happens if you're using both the Office 2016 preview Microsoft has posted as well as Office 2011.

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Once you installed the previous version of AutoUpdate, you'd find that it would locate but would be unable to install an update to Office 2011. What's worse, the AutoUpdate program would grab lots of memory and generally make a mess of things. People were running into this problem:

• Sep 07, 2017 If you rename or modify any of the files in the Microsoft Office 2011 folder, you cannot install product updates. To correct this issue, drag the Microsoft Office 2011 folder to the Trash, and then reinstall Office 2011 from your original installation disk.
• Microsoft AutoUpdate may offer Office 2016 for Mac updates even though you have Office for Mac 2008 installed on your Mac. Upon accepting the update, Office for Mac 2008 gets automatically upgraded to Office 2016. This can occur if you are using version 3.14.0 of Microsoft AutoUpdate. STATUS: FIXED.

2020-3-31  Similarly, we won't offer a choice between 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Office 2016 for Mac. After each 'channel' is transitioned per the rollout schedule, only 64-bit builds will be available. Effect on third-party applications and add-ins. The transition to 64-bit Office for Mac was announced on the Office developer blog in April 2016.

To get past it, the easiest thing to do is to to run AutoUpdate again. It'll find the updated version of itself and install it. To do so, just select the 'Check for Updates' option in the Help menu of any open Microsoft application.

If that doesn't work, or if you don't trust AutoUpdate to do the right thing, you can download the latest updater from Microsoft's web site and install it yourself. That'll download to your Downloads folder as a .pkg file.

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How to run the AutoUpdate installer

1. Double-click on 'Microsoft AutoUpdate 3.0.6.pkg' to launch the installer.
2. Click Continue.
3. Click Continue again to install it to your Mac's hard drive.
4. Click Install.
5. Enter your administrator password and click Install Software.
6. After it's done click the Close button.

That's it.

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