Why is my computer still using Microsoft Office 2021 after installing Office 2024?

I had the same problem and used this suggestion by tyurias on Oct 23 successfully, PLUS the one on the third page by UMrhh on Nov 23.......after uninstalling all versions of Office. Then I re-booted and installed Office Home and Business 2024, and it came up as the correct version.

Many thanks to these two contributors and others on this topic. Shame on MS for making this such a difficult issue.

The problem likely runs to far more people than we even know about this from this forum, although I have found angry users on other forums, too. Another issue is that Office 365 is so widely used that only a small group of people would even be interested in stand-alone versions of the product. I, myself, am running a state-of-the-art MSI Titan laptop that handles the heavy lifting of everything from digital art to vast algos in Python, as well as databases that routinely shuttle, both in to and out from, (get ready for this) Excel. I have no desire to have rentware from Microsoft or Adobe, so I need the best of the stand-alone products these companies have to offer.

Microsoft is in an oligopoly — technically, a quasi-duopoly — and, as such, it has no interest in resolving the problems of a small group of end users. That's why this forum has no direct connection to anyone at Microsoft who could solve the problem we're having. We are left with "solutions" being offered by people who know no more than we do. I was appalled at how complicated and definitive some of the solutions were that actually showed fundamental ignorance of the file deployment architecture of the Office 2024 vaporware. No, there were no license files in the empty Office 16 folders, although that gave me a clue regarding what was really going on: Office 2024 doesn't actually exist on my computer, notwithstanding my having downloaded a massive file and endured a long "installation" process after I bought it.

Are we going to sue Microsoft? No, Microsoft's lawyers would turn us into a dot of chicken salad that would get tossed out of court before we could say, "Don't eat me." Are we going to make a big thing of this on social media and make Microsoft do the right thing? No, hardly anyone would care enough to give us even one repost. So, what are we going to do? We're going to come here to fuss in vane and try every new solution offered by an "expert" who really just wants attention.

As I tell my business students, corporations do not fulfill their goal of maximizing shareholder wealth by being good to people; they fulfill that goal by doing what is best for their business. The two are rarely synchronous.

I wish you well and thank you for coming here to join the conversation.

what I cannot understand we people in the forum with this particular problem office 2024 upgrade is still showimg office 2021 for word/excel office 2021? In my case, my outlook is now showimg 2024 and I didn't loose my data and settins despite the message saying I would if I said yes to the office message button. I thought worse case if I did loose data, i e emails, I had my pst file backed up.

I clicked yes and the 2024 was there! although the new format , yuk

however, clicked on Help and clicked "Classic Outlook" and the old look, easy to use and file to folders!!!

no surprise, Word/Excel still reflecting office 2021 despite using the swap Office 21 to Office 24 button.

very exprienced person saying nothing will happen until "fixed !!!" by MS..

there must be around 100 on this forum with quite few having done some of self fixes to get it working as expected but most still not working.

Not living in the US (born there, served there) it looks 1000's did get it to work here in the UK and many times more in the US.

Has MS been alerted in the US about the folks on this forum with this issue? have responded.

Could someone do that please. If no success, we have a tech magazine here that will and have followed through these types of problems to a result. phoning the ceo until a respone is received.

Could a specific type of hardware built say on specific production date, maybe something a relative small number with the same hardware or sofware environment could be problem.

just some thoughts after a few weeks of despair

pc saxon

Preach it, brother.

Same problem as everyone else. Bought Office 2024, and was looking forward to a new and fresh version of Office...it needed it. Cannot stand 365.

When through the simple steps of uninstalling Office 2021.

Installed Office 2024, and what do you know...Office 2021 loads.

Spent countless hours looking at various forums, and trying numerous attempts to fix it.

No point calling MS, as you just have to go over the whole thing with two or three different people.

Not good enough MS. Yuo are driving people mental. Fix it up.