HIGH SIERRA COMPATIBILITY WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE

I've had no problems with High Sierra and Office for Mac 2016.

Also see the following from Microsoft Office support for macOS 10.13 High Sierra - Office Support

As of September 25, 2017, macOS 10.13 High Sierra is publically available for all Mac users to install. Office 2016 for Mac is fully supported on High Sierra. For the best experience, we recommend you update Office to version 15.38 or later.

Then again, they are confusing us by pitching both Office 365 and Office 2016, with questions about updates/subscribing. I'm still running Office 2011 for Mac, now under High Sierra, working OK at the moment, and am totally confused about whether to upgrade and to which option.

Wow, Larry, I'm surprised as I'm also trying to use Office 2011 for Mac.

I just upgraded to High Sierra and although Outlook and Excel APPEAR to be working, for the moment, PowerPoint and Word are certainly not working for me. I can't open old Word/PPT documents correctly or type a new doc. VERY annoying for me and I'm concerned about corruption for my Excel and Outlook files. 😠

Hi Larry, I used Office 2011 and switched to Office 365 on High Sierra. Everything works perfectly on High Sierra and the look and feel is quite an improvement. I would certainly suggest to switch! Macros work much better and the ribbon is much more what I was used to as I have to work with Office 2013 and now 365 on Windows pc’s at work. Compatibility is finally also much better between Office 2016/365 on the Mac and PC. No problems there anymore....

To my knowledge, the difference between Office 2016 and Office 365 is that you get future updates to all new versions as long as you have a subscription with Office 365 and also space in the cloud for working, sharing and colaborating online. I have a subscription for 5 computer licenses where I can install all Office 2016 applications and can highly suggest this; as my wife can tax deduct this subscription 😉

I feel I I have to add to this...

I just bought a new Mac mini with High Sierra and installed Office for Mac 2016....it has been a nightmare and I wouldn't advise anyone to do it. I lost fonts in Word (it won't show ITC fonts even tho they work in other applications) and it's impossible to update the normal.dotm file, so things like my keyboard shortcuts created in "Tools - Customize Keyboard" aren't saved for other documents. That's just a few of the problems.

And Excel is almost unusable. Page layout does not work at all...when you click in a cell, the selection border shows on the other side of the page and encloses two or three cells. I can't move page breaks in page-break view. If landscape paper orientation is selected in page setup, when I select print, the dialog box shows "portrait" and it reformats the document into portrait...I have to be sure to change it there or it will print out incorrectly and mess up the document. It takes 5 seconds of "spinning beach ball" to go from one page to another. Again, this is a short list of the problems.

I haven't found any forums that are discussing this, and Microsoft technical support isn't much help.

Has anyone else had this kind of severe problems and did you find a solution. Help!!!! and thanks,

Marki

And after that Office 2016 for Mac installation, did you immediately update to v15.41, or now v16.9? Did that new Mac mini ship with 10.13.0, 10.13.1, 10.13.2, or 10.13.3? There may be bug fixes that Apple and Microsoft have collaborated to resolve in higher versions of Office 2016 and High Sierra.

The Office 2016 for Mac applications each store Microsoft's font distribution in the individual application bundles now, and do not install the fonts into the operating system as was the practice in Office for Mac 2008 and 2011. Office 2016 for Mac should see existing installed fonts in the normal System and your user Fonts folder.

Do not update to Office 2016 V16.9. Lot's of issues vs 15.4. Many users have reported issues to Microsoft and they insist they are working on it although they appear to want the users to try to solve the issues. Very frustrating.

Having issues with my Microsoft Office 2016 and Mac OS 10.13.3... "Grant Access" message and not able to grant access to my internal hard drive on my Macbook Pro 2017 (with touch strip). Trying to save documents from Excel is a challenge to say the least. I hope Microsoft will come out with an update to fix the issues with Office 2016.

Thanks for your reply. Actually, I bought two new computers at the same time, a mini and a laptop, and both came with 10.13.2. I installed Office 15.41 on both but updated the mini to 16.9...that's when the ITC fonts disappeared. All Microsoft support could do was to revert me back to 15.41, so now I have those fonts. But there are still a number of other problems in both Word and Excel. I'm tempted, based on what I've read here, to try to find Office 2011 and forget the 2016 version until I see that Microsoft has fixed it.

I just upgraded the mini to 10.13.3 so I'm anxious to see if it's improved anything. You can only imagine how frustrating this is...I have lots of volunteer projects on this computer that need attention and fighting the programs makes everything much more time-consuming.

Marki

Let me add an "absolutely" to this....Version 16.9 caused a number of problems and Microsoft support has been very little help; they finally just uninstalled Office and re-installed 15.41 for me. There are still problems, particularly with Excel, but at least the fonts that disappeared when I updated are now back.

I just updated to High Sierra this week and now my 2016 Office suite does not work well and I am having permissions problems with connecting to my hardwired server. I've tried all kinds of things. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the office suite, tried to save files in different places (it tells me i do not have permission even on my local desktop), and made sure every update is done as well as created a new identity on outlook. Outlook continues to crash, I can't attach files to an email, I cant open any local files or files saved in my server. It's a mess. Anyone have any ideas??

Thanks. After hours on the phone with "Level 2" Microsoft support, it looks like 2016 is behaving itself, but still is slow. Any more problems arise with it and I'll give up and buy 2011...there are some affordable copies for sale from software resellers.

I feel your pain, even tho my problems weren't quite as severe as yours. I called Microsoft support and got connected to "Level 2"....the people who can take control of your screen and try to figure out the problem. We ended up reverting to Word 15.41 and doing a few other things that seemed to help. But Excel 15.41 is a mess...just awful. So we upgraded only that program so Word wouldn't fall apart again. All in all, way too much agony just because I had to buy a new computer.

So far, I've had absolutely no problems running all the components of Office 2011 for Mac under High Sierra (primarily use of Word, but also some Excel, PPT). Sorry to hear about your issues.