

If you'd rather only run monthly replace 0 14 * * 3 with 0 14 1 * *, but there's no real reason to. It won't run if your laptop's off though (solutions here) although it only needs to run once every few attempts. Go from MS Office Suite to Adobe Sketch or. To schedule with crontab type sudo crontab -e in Terminal (or iTerm etc), press i, and enter the following to run this every Wednesday at 2pm: # min hour day_of_month month day_of_week commandĠ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist"ġ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist"Ģ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist"Īpple recommends another way to schedule on MacOS. Many apps you use every day are optimized to work naturally as you switch between screens. Another thread suggests it is run after missing 3 updates. After the installation completes, your new version of Office should update automatically, or you might get a notification an update is ready to apply.
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If so these commands will need running every 90 days. When you're ready to install the latest version (either a subscription or non-subscription version of Office), follow the steps in Download and install or reinstall Office on a PC or Mac. One thread suggests the nag is run after 90 days without an update. Ppowerpoint: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist" Word: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist"Įxcel: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist"

This seems to have worked for me - extracted this from the ResetUpdateMessage script on William's answer.
