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It is a convoluted situation that led to this purchase. I was notified by Intuit that I would need to move from Mojave to Catalina in order to run TurboTax 2021. When I upgraded to Catalina I was notified MS Office Home & Student 2011 would not run on Catalina which led to this purchase. When I installed 2021 I was then prompted to activate it by activating one of the programs in it. When I tried to activate Excel I was directed to the App Store and directed to 365 which is MS Office tied to a subscription. I had been warned about 365 and did not want it. Because I tried and failed to activate Excel, it along with Word and Power Point were blocked with a circle with a slash. At this point I cannot use MS Office Home & Student 2021 on my iMac so I had to take it to my local computer shop and have it fixed. $85.00 later I have my iMac back and MS Office Home and Student 2021 appears to be working fine with just enough changes from 2011 to cause some confusion. One thing that is really annoying is the changes made to the tints of the colors used to highlight. I maintain several databases in Excel and now I have different shades of green in cells. None of the new shades of green match the old one. Yikes! I have a choice of either accepting multiple tints in my spreadsheets, with some from 2011 and some from 2021, or going back and changing the tints, cell by cell, from the 2011 version to the 2021 version. Bert Lance, formerly of the Carter Administration had a favorite expression "If it ain't broke don't fix it". I have only had MS Office Home & Student 2021 for a few days and there may be more surprises coming in the future. BTW Amazon's Customer Service rep tried to help in that tempt to activate the software but was unable to do so. She gave me a toll free # for tech support at Microsoft. I challenge anyone to reach a human being at that #. Everything was voice response and not helpful. Eventually I was directed to a URL that was supposed to be a tech problem solver. When I found the solution to my problem I printed a hard copy and tried the suggested solution. When the solution did not work I was off to the computer repair shop. Enough for now!