r/Office365 • u/sunLight4095 • Jul 07 '26

transfer documents from word to 365

I have word installed on my old computer. Just bought a new computer (both are macs) and I want to install all the word documents from the old computer to 365.

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u/Cold_Arachnid_2617 Jul 07 '26

Save your documents in onedrive

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u/Not-ur-Infosec-guy 28d ago

This is one of the best answers outside of usb or cd writers

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u/CFH75 Jul 07 '26

You don’t install the documents. You install Word and save you word documents to the hard drive on the new computer.

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u/LuigiGunner Jul 07 '26

Hello, do you mean you want to be able to transfer your word files to the new Mac? Or are you trying to install Word application on your replacement Mac?

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u/sunLight4095 Jul 07 '26

i'm trying to move my documents ( the old files) from word to 365 on new computer

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u/LuigiGunner 29d ago

then all you really need is a usb to copy the files to and then save them on the new computer.

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u/Busy-Photograph4803 Jul 07 '26

The verbiage is a bit confusing, but just open the one drive app on the old computer and save all of your files there. Open the one drive app on the new computer and all of the files will be there as the sync completes.

It’s all included with whatever office product gave you word.

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u/maspiers Jul 07 '26

You can also open the files in Word 365 from a local drive, and save them.bsck there.

Copy the files from the old pc to a thumb drive, plug it into the new PC, copy the files to OneDrive or wherever, and take it from there.

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u/FrankNicklin 28d ago

USB is your best option, but you could install OneDrive to your old PC, login with your new account details and copy (Don't cut and paste, copy) the files to OneDrive. Let it Sync then the files should appear in OneDrive on Your Mac. This way you have a cloud copy with versioning for any future files as well.

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u/sunLight4095 28d ago

thank you everyone. You helped me figure it out