

A standard troubleshooting step for Microsoft Office applications is to uninstall and reinstall the suite. Crashing was even more frequent than in the Office for Mac 2016, not even accounting for a number of other user interface oddities spanning the entire suite. The latest Office for Mac 2011 from April, version 14.7.3, was examined, and was found to be in a worse state following the High Sierra update. The same issues manifested in a Mac with High Sierra that was not migrated to APFS, eliminating that as a primary source of the errors and crashing. Furthermore, the apps quit unexpectedly fairly often during use. Microsoft notes in the same memorandum that Office for Mac 2011 "have not been tested" and "no formal support for this configuration will be provided." Office for Mac 2011 will also cease all support from Microsoft on Octoand no further updates in any form will be provided after that date.ĪppleInsider tested the 15.34 version and found that they appear to launch and run for a period of time, but with notably slower speeds across the board. Versions 15.34 - the current version - and earlier are not supported on High Sierra, and users may not be able to launch the apps at all, according to Microsoft. The company is requesting that users send feedback if they choose to test High Sierra and Microsoft Office products. Without delving into specific reasons why, Microsoft strongly recommends that users back up existing data before trying the software. According to Microsoft, "not all Office functionality may be available" and stability problems may manifest where "apps unexpectedly quit." In other words, it works the same as when it’s supposedly updated.In the support document, published shortly after the reveal of High Sierra, Microsoft declares that while the Office 2016 suite of applications from unreleased version 15.35 and later do work, users will still have to endure problems while waiting for a future update. MacDailyNews Take: With Office 2016 version 15.35 and later, “‘not all Office functionality may be available’ and stability problems may manifest where ‘apps unexpectedly quit.'” “Office for Mac 2011 will also cease all support from Microsoft on Octoand no further updates in any form will be provided after that date.”


“Microsoft notes in the same memorandum that Office for Mac 2011 ‘have not been tested’ and ‘no formal support for this configuration will be provided,'” Wuerthele reports. “According to Microsoft, ‘not all Office functionality may be available’ and stability problems may manifest where ‘apps unexpectedly quit.'” “In the support document, published shortly after the reveal of High Sierra, Microsoft declares that while the Office 2016 suite of applications from unreleased version 15.35 and later do work, users will still have to endure problems while waiting for a future update,” Wuerthele reports. “A support document published by Microsoft, and some AppleInsider testing, shows that while the newer versions of the office productivity suite will mostly work with High Sierra now, the current version does not - and older versions are getting left behind,” Mike Wuerthele reports for AppleInsider.
