Does MS Office 2008 work with El Capitan?

I have MS Office 2008, and I can open the various programs just fine in El Capitan.

I have the same issue. If there's no fix I might have to revert it back to Yosemite.

I spent about four hours on the phone being transferred from different helpdesk's in Apple and then to Microsoft and then back to Apple. Basically, Microsoft no longer supports office 2008. Consequently, they don't care that it doesn't install. Microsoft wants you to buy a subscription to their new office service. Apple also doesn't care, it's not their software. So here we are, stuck with software we paid for that we can no longer use. Which is unfortunate, because office 2008 is more than most people will ever need regardless of all the bells and whistles in Microsoft's newest version.

Try the following: boot into the Recovery volume (boot with the Command + R keys held down), select Disk Utility and repair the disk. Reboot normally and try again.

It's not working. I will try to use Page and Number and see if I can deal with that.

Use LibreOffice, it's free, and well supported.

The person wasn't asking about an alternate to MS Office 2008 for Mac. Please stay on-topic.

**** I guess one question I want to ask is, did anyone do a CLEAN install for Mac OS X 10.11, then try to install Office 2008 w/latest update for Office 2008? ****

It may be that the first "dot release" will fix some of these problems.

Hammer7777 wrote:

The person wasn't asking about an alternate to MS Office 2008 for Mac. Please stay on-topic.

What on earth does it have to do with you what I suggest, you who offer no alternative but to wait and hope?

He/she wasn't asking for "alternatives" - they are asking about MS Office - a product for good or ill with the largest footprint in the real world.

Little niche developer-hobbies like NeoOffice, OpenOffice, or Libre aren't ever going to amount to anything, except a few specialists. They are dead-ends, practically.

Threads meandering all over the place are not helpful to a person asking a specific question.

Hammer7777 wrote:

He/she wasn't asking for "alternatives" - they are asking about MS Office - a product for good or ill with the largest footprint in the real world.

Little niche developer-hobbies like NeoOffice, OpenOffice, or Libre aren't ever going to amount to anything, except a few specialists. They are dead-ends, practically.

Threads meandering all over the place are not helpful to a person asking a specific question.

Thanks for your opinion, I have filed it somewhere appropriate.

Now why don't you try to help the OP with the problem?

Very cute. Not. You won't be known for your wit.

The only people that can "help with the problem" are, besides Apple and Microsoft, are those who have Office 2008 (latest update revision) up and running on Mac OS X 10.11. The person is asking about MS Office, not some little toy-niche program.

My question was, did anyone try a clean-install of 10.11 and then try installing Office 2008 on it?

I'm waiting for the first dot-release before doing anything with El Capitan.

Hammer7777 wrote:

Very cute. Not. You won't be known for your wit.

The only people that can "help with the problem" are, besides Apple and Microsoft, are those who have Office 2008 (latest update revision) up and running on Mac OS X 10.11. The person is asking about MS Office, not some little toy-niche program.

My question was, did anyone try a clean-install of 10.11 and then try installing Office 2008 on it?

I'm waiting for the first dot-release before doing anything with El Capitan.

A few hours and suddenly you're an expert.

Help the OP, I don't give a fig what you think.

My question was, did anyone try a clean-install of 10.11 and then try installing Office 2008 on it?

No it wasn't

FYI, LO's userbase (in 2013) was 75 million

How many people still use MS's obsolete and unsupported Office 2008?

Thank you for your suggestion. I won't use LO as I'm making do quite successfully with Pages/Numbers. Thanks anyway, it all helps!