Fix RunTime Error 53 Mac in Word or Excel

You may encounter RunTime error 53 Mac from time to time when you are working on projects in Word or Excel. This post from EaseUS will help you solve this error ASAP and get your files repaired.

Have you ever encountered RunTime error 53 Mac when using Word or Excel on macOS? Do not worry if you are facing this issue; This post from EaseUS will help you fix this Microsoft Word/Excel problem. Keep scrolling to get the solutions:

Fix 1. Repair Corrupted Word or Excel Files to Fix macOS Runtime Error 53

You will likely receive this error message if your Excel or Word files get corrupted accidentally. If your documents are downloaded from the website or transferred through the Internet, you may try to repair your files first. One of the most effective methods to fix damaged Word or Excel files is to consult a document repair tool like EaseUS Fixo Document Repair. 

This Microsoft repair tool can effortlessly repair corrupted Word on Mac, Excel, and PowerPoint documents with just a few clicks of your mouse. Here are some other cases this tool from EaseUS can perfectly handle:

• Runtime error 1004 in Excel
• Unreadable content in Word
• Solve unable to expand mac error 79

Follow the steps here to repair problematic Word or Excel files now:

Step 1. Download and launch Fixo on the Mac. Choose "File Repair" from the left panel. Click "Add File" to select corrupted Office documents, including Word, Excel, PDF, and others you want to repair.

Step 2. To repair corrupted files in batch, click the "Repair All" button. If you want to repair a specific document, move your cursor to the document and click the "Repair" button. You can click the eye icon to preview the repaired document.

Step 3. Click "Save" to save a selected document. To keep all the repaired documents, choose "Save All". When the save completes, click "View Repaired" to locate the repaired folder.

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Fix 2. Update Adobe Acrobat to Fix RunTime Error 53 on macOS

You may also encounter this error message if your Acrobat Reader is outdated. In this case, you just need to update Acrobat Reader like this:

Step 1. Launch Adobe Acrobat and go to the Help section.

Step 2. Choose "Check for Updates" to see if any new version is available. If there is, just download it and restart your document when the installing is done.

Fix 3. Remove the Add-ins to Solve the macOS RunTime Error

You can also try removing the add-ins in Excel or Word like this to fix this runtime error. Here, we take Excel as an example. Follow the steps here:

Step 1. Close all Microsoft programs first. Navigate to

Step 2. You can also search SaveAsAdobePDF.xlam in the Finder directly.

Step 3. Now, delete SaveAsAdobePDF.xlam and restart your Excel now.

FAQs

Read this part to get more information on this runtime error:

1. How do I fix error 53 on my Mac?

Try this method:

• Open Word or PowerPoint, whichever program contained the problem. Open any of the following menus from the Menu Bar located to the right of the Apple Menu.
• Click linkCreation or SaveAsAdobePDF.xlam.

• Close Word and PowerPoint and restart. This should fix all of the issues!

2. How do I fix Microsoft Word error on Mac?

• Quit all programs.
• On the Go menu, click Home > Library.
• Open the Preferences folder and drag com.
• Now, open the Microsoft folder (in Preferences), and drag com.
• Start Word.
• Quit all programs.
• On the Go menu, click Home > Library

 Final Words

This post from EaseUS has looked at how you can fix this RunTime error 53 Mac. You can first repair your corrupted documents with EaseUS Fixo Document Repair, then try updating Acrobat Reader or removing the add-ins in Excel or Word.