After Apple released the new OS X El Capitan on Wednesday, users streamed to a Microsoft support discussion forum to report that Office 2016 for Mac regularly crashed, crippling their productivity. 'This is beyond the Pale. We basically can't use Office on our computers,' wrote Watson Scott Swail today on the. 'I finalized the El Capitan upgrade this morning and since then I can't use my Mac with Office 2016 any longer. Multiple random crashes from any of the Office 2016 apps,' added Francisco Chaves, also today. Related: The discussion thread where Swail and Chaves posted their complaints had over 140 messages and had been viewed more than 13,300 times, both extremely large numbers for Microsoft's Office for Mac support forum.
May 08, 2017 The Migration Assistant moved Office for Mac over, but says it needs to be activated to use. After 4 frustrating calls, I had a support person instruct me to uninstall the current Office, and download a new copy. It did not give me an option to change.iso to.dmg format during this process.
While the thread's kick-off message was posted July 25, about two weeks after Microsoft shipped Office 2016 for Mac and Apple delivered the first public beta of OS X 10.11, aka El Capitan, the volume of messages added to the thread swelled yesterday, when Apple released the OS X upgrade. Some Computerworld staffers have been experiencing the same irregular crashes of Office 2016 applications, notably Outlook, but also Excel and Word, that have been reported on Microsoft's support forum. The application crashes and the ensuing lock-ups come at various times and when performing various chores with the software, users said. Some have seen Outlook go dead when their Macs awoke from sleep, others asserted that the downfall of one Office application caused all other open Office applications to crash as well, while a few noted that even after a crash, the applications were unresponsive, requiring a Mac restart to clear the decks.
Computerworld has seen all those scenarios, too. 'If I have more than one Office app open and a crash occurs on one of them, the other one locks up too,' wrote a user identified only as 'EJZK' today. 'But only the Office apps. Other apps continue to work fine.' Typical for a peer-to-peer support forum, users proposed multiple solutions and forwarded a host of theories about the crash cause. Invariably, others chimed in to say that the speculated fixes did nothing to help them, or disagreed with another's technical diagnosis.
But the one area of agreement was that the situation was untenable and unacceptable. 'This issue has been happening on OS X 10.11 beta for months.
And it appears that Microsoft still isn't doing anything about it,' said Swail in a later post. 'As someone else reported, they know about this but do not appear to be doing much about it. It is not an Apple issue. It is a Microsoft issue. All my other programs are fine, including the entire Adobe suite, which I think is infinitely more complex than Office.' 'Any sane developer should be proactively ensuring compatibility with GM golden master prior to release,' added 'fryle' today.
'That's kind of the point of GM. Otherwise you get what we're seeing now: customers upgrading to El Cap and finding Office, a mission-critical suite for most people, is now broken. At worst, Microsoft hasn't taken this seriously enough, and at best, it hasn't been communicating with its customers well enough. There has been no advisory (to my knowledge) warning of the known issues and certainly no ETA on a fix.
It's disappointing, to say the least.' 'Golden master' is a term used to describe the last testing release of an upcoming program or operating system. It's unclear whether Microsoft's or Apple's code was responsible for the Office 2016 crashes, or a combination of both. Computerworld has experienced similar Office 2016 crash behavior on the GM and official releases of El Capitan, as well as on a Mac equipped with the public preview of OS X 10.11.1. The Office applications were downloaded from Microsoft's website as part of both consumer and commercial subscriptions to Office 365, which provide rights to locally install the suite on up to five Macs.
23 update that Microsoft released for Office 2016 for Mac did not stop the crashes for Computerworld. Microsoft did not immediately reply to a request for comment and whether it had a fix in the works. But someone identified as Sunder Raman - who said he was a program manager on the Mac Office team - left several comments on a story about the crashes published earlier today on.
There is a 'Sunder Raman' listed on Linkedin.com, who has a title of senior program manager for Outlook on Mac. 'We have been working with Apple through the Beta period and have collectively resolved several issues,' Raman said as he responded to criticism that Microsoft dallied during OS X 10.11's three-plus months of developer previews. 'Some issues are hard to isolate given the nature of hardware configuration differences like graphics cards, number and type of accounts used, etc.' Microsoft has acknowledged a different issue with Outlook 2011, the predecessor to the email client bundled with Office 2016, on El Capitan. In a, Microsoft said it was 'researching the problem,' which caused Outlook 2011 to crash when trying to sync with an email server. Office 2016 for Mac sells for either $150 or $230 in perpetual license form, or is available with an Office 365 subscription, which range in price from $70 to $240 annually for the entry-level consumer plan and the most expensive corporate deal, respectively.
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While Internet access is required to install Office, you do not need to be connected to the Internet to use the Office applications. Please be aware that Office 2016 is a one-time purchase and the applications are not automatically updated when a new version is released. To get the latest version, you'll need to purchase Office again when it becomes available. For purchase and activation in the United States, U.S.
Territories, and Canada only. General Features Microsoft Word Create and share professional-looking documents with state-of-the-art editing, reviewing, and sharing tools. The Design tab provides quick access to features and Smart Lookup shows relevant contextual information from the web directly inside Word. Microsoft Excel Analyze and visualize your data in intuitive ways with a fresh user interface plus your favorite keyboard shortcuts. Leverage features like Analysis Toolpak, Slicers, and Formula Builder to save time, so you can focus on insights.
Microsoft PowerPoint Create, collaborate, and effectively present your ideas with slide transitions and an improved Animations task pane. Threaded comments alongside your slides help you incorporate feedback into your presentations. And Presenter View displays the current slide, next slide, speaker notes, and a timer on your Mac, while projecting only the presentation to your audience on the big screen. Microsoft OneNote It's your very own digital notebook, so you can keep notes, ideas, web pages, photos, even audio and video all in one place. Whether you're at home, in the office, or on the move, you can take it all with you wherever you go while sharing and collaborating with others.
Use it for school assignments, work projects, travel plans, party planning, and more. OneDrive Sign in to Office 2016 and use OneDrive to easily access your recent documents on any device with seamless integration. Rated 3 out of 5 by yolanda from Unexpected installation error I kept the MS office Home & Business 2011 for mac and installed the Home & Student 2016. Custom dictionary permissions errors. This apparently is a common error since I also bought the Home & Business 2016 for another mac and had the same error. I kept the 2011 installed so I could use the Outlook 2011 since this one doesn't include it.
News to me that you cannot partially uninstall the office for mac 2011 and leave just the Outlook 2011. I'm the one to blame since I should have done my homework and find this out prior to buying the 2016. So if you plan to keep the Outlook from 2011 you will have to keep the whole MS Office 2011 for Mac installed.
Rated 5 out of 5 by William from Exactly what I needed and wanted I was an early adopter of the IBM PC. I used WordStar and Word Perfect, but came to Microsoft Office and stayed for the last decade or so. Then I became a fan of Apple products: first the iPhone (3, 4, 5 and then 6) and the iPad and currently the iPad Pro. Needing to update my desktop, I went to the iMac. It was fast, and came with a set of utilities, but Pages, Photos, etc. Were anemic compared to office.
BHPhoto offered a fair price for MS Office Home &Student and it works like a champ. Very pleased. Rated 4 out of 5 by Ariel from A familiar office product and 64 bit for High Sierra Anyone that has done any office work should know that this is the standard to what business or schools used out there. I bought this along with the new ImacPro from Bh and photo. Product comes in an small box with key and downloadable instructions. 5 min was downloaded and running with no issues.
The only reason I gave it a 4 stars is its price but still less from BH and Photo. Apple OS comes with prettier apps that those same job but this product is a most have as the standard used in any schools or business out there and it looks better in the ImacPro. Rated 3 out of 5 by Robert from A known problem? It took from Wednesday, then Thursday and then Sunday spread over several hours of tests, trials, experiments and three Microsoft experts to get the program to load. The last expert told me that loading Microsoft Office into a Mac was a known problem.
No one was able to tell me why this happened. And finally I had great difficulty understanding these Microsoft representatives because of a poor connections or because of their enunciation while speaking.