office 11 on OS 10.13.6

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office 11 on OS 10.13.6

I am currently using Office 11 - especially Excel. I need Excel desperately but thing are kind of crazy. What do I do and how do I go about it. Must I purchase new and will I be assured everything will remain or transfer etc. etc.etc.

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Aug 28, 2020 11:43 AM

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Tesserax

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Aug 28, 2020 11:56 AM in response to vraninc

FWIW:

Office 2011 for Mac is a 32-bit application suite. Office 2016 and 2019 for Mac are both 64-bit suites. Office 2016 for Mac is no longer a strategic solution as Microsoft has stated that they plan to end support for it on Oct 13, 2020. Thus, replace Office 2011 for Mac with Office 2019 for Mac.
Microsoft never tested Office 2011 for Mac on either High Sierra, or Mojave, and since that office suite was retired in Oct 2017, if anything fails to work on Mojave, you are without an update fix.
Data migration between Office suites are typically supported, but that does not mean you may not run into some form of compatibility/feature issues upgrading.

Ref:

Microsoft Product Lifecycle - Microsoft Support
System requirements for Office - Microsoft Support
Microsoft Office support for macOS 10.13 High Sierra - Microsoft Support

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KiltedTim

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Aug 28, 2020 11:51 AM in response to vraninc

Office 2011 is no longer supported by Microsoft at all.

As Microsoft follows Apple's 3 year sliding window for OS support, Microsoft will not support any version of office running on High Sierra once Big Sur is released.

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vraninc Author

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Aug 28, 2020 2:08 PM in response to KiltedTim

I am sorry to sound so stupid but I have so many monetary documents using Excel and I cannot loose them. If I purchase New Excel and Word can I transfer everything and make sure all is correct? Should I purchase 365? How and what should I do? Please help.

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Kurt Lang

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Aug 28, 2020 2:13 PM in response to vraninc

Your current documents will be the same as always. But you need a newer version of Office that will work. That would be either Office 365 (subscription), or Office 2019 (one-time cost perpetual license).

Since you're on 10.13 now, either of these is already on the last version of macOS Office 2019/365 will support. It won't stop working the day Big Sur is officially released, but it's unknown if Microsoft will make any more updates for 2019/365 to fix any issues that crop up in 10.13.

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