El Capitan screen split mode does not work for ms office?

I have the same question. Microsoft 2011 was able to split screen for me before the Apple update to El Capitan. It worked fine before the update..its a little frustrating that because of the update I have to buy Microsoft 2016 to be able to split screen and do use functions previously available before the update.

Office 2011 does not officially support the Split Screen mode of macOS. Office 2011 was introduced years before Split Screen mode was introduced. If you're unhappy that your obsolete version of Office doesn't support features of the OS that did not exist when the application was released, take it up with Microsoft.

I don't really know what change did they implemented, and I couldn't care less about how their commercial strategy works, but before mac OS Sierra I used to split screen using MS Office 2011. Since I updated my mac OS I failed to achieve the split screen.

One of the reasons why I decided to change and buy mac is because I could split screen like I used to do with Windows. I work with these apps, and spliting screen saves me a lot of trouble and time. Therefor, this would make me not choose Apple again. It's a shame.

Please, undo whatever software adjust made (it didn't stop working magically).

Hope someone from Apple reads this.

If not, and someone finds and answer, please please, tell me.

Thanks!

That is because MS Office apps do not have a fullscreen option, they only have that little green plus sign, therefore cannot be used full screen/split screen.

Same Issue. Thanks for the answer. How could they forget to mention this previously???

What's weird for me is I was able to use the split screen with MW early friday- 10/2 between 11am and 4:30pm but now i get a note saying that MW is not available full screen when I attempt to click on it. It feels as if someone tampered with the software, why does it not work all of a sudden?

DxbUz wrote:

I hope this issue is going to be resolved soon. I was waiting for the El Capitan to enjoy split screen view of Ms Office and other apps. Apple Team, please assist in this matter.

The only way it's going to be resolved is for you to upgrade to Office for Mac 2016.

The Office 2011 applications do not support full screen mode. That's a design choice by Microsoft. (Actually, it's due to the fact that Office 2011 pre-dates full screen mode in OS X by several years. Now that Office 2016 has been released, don't expect to see it added as a feature to Office 2011. The best you can hope for for Office 2011 is maintenance and security updates for a few years.)

Does the split screen app work on Office 2016?

Yes. It works for everything except Outlook, which doesn't support Full Screen mode.

Sorry. You're wrong.

DxbUz wrote:

... I have Office for Mac and it has to work in Mac's new OS properly. .....

😟

That is Microsofts responsibility to make their apps compatible with any OS update.

Alpha and Beta versions have been available for year and it is Microsofts decision

to expend their efforts on new software instead of old software. If you want to complain

to any one, complain to Microsoft!!!

Apple can not fix a design issue with Microsoft's applications. Go ask Microsoft to resolve it. I'm sure you'll be told that is has been resolved. All you have to do is upgrade to Office 2016.