Does MS Office 2008 work with El Capitan?

I'm sure your issue is long resolved, but in case others have a similar question: I changed to El Capitan last week and immediately began having problems with MS Word 2008 (frequently freezing and "not responding"). I called Microsoft Customer Service and they informed me that in fact they are not compatible, which explains the problem. So, according to MS, you'll have to upgrade your MS Office (i think to at least 2010 or newer) if you want to use El Capitan.

No, Office 2010 is a windows program, you would need to update to 2011 or later.

It works up to 10.11.5 but 10.11.6 breaks it.

I don't know of an easy downgrade.

Looks like a complete wipe and a reload of 10.11, and then only upgrading to 10.11.5.

Yuck.

Thanks, guys.

Mine works with 10.11.6.

Try looking/posting here.

Microsoft Support – Office for Mac

Microsoft Support – Office for Mac (2)

All Office apps are crashing with "Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib"

That's an alias to libstdc++.6.0.9, which is different between my 10.11.5 system (where all works)

and my 10.11.6 system, where no Office apps work.

Have you got 10.5.6 Apple developer tools loaded on your machine?
That's another variable that might be affecting the dylib.

In any case, the situation is still bad.

It may/ Read this article, it has a link to a Microsoft fix issued in May 2016 for Office 2008

http://www.itguyswa.com.au/fix-mac-office-2008-problems/

But dont go any higher.... definitely DOES NOT work in Sierra and even later updates of El Capitan

Great to hear I will have to try this. I also got it to work but a dodgier way. I'll have to try your way. I did a format of my hard drive and fresh install of El Capitan. Then I just copied the whole application folder for office out of my last time machine backup before formatting to my new applications folder. All programs work the way I did it.

I have no idea what it is that you are going on about, start by clarifying the version of Office that you have been using.