Mac OS Mojave & Microsoft Office 2011

It may or may not work for you and your specific environment and Office requirements. Try it and see. All I can say is it does not work for me in my situation and the reason is exactly that contained in the link.

It's all very well and sensible to say do what they say. But not everyone has a choice ...

I'm an author and each book can take several years to complete. I started the current volume on Word for Mac 2011 about three and a half years ago. Evben at, it is a very slimmed down programme compared to the version I had for Windows before changing everything to Macs.

Word for Mac has always been buggy. Whether on my Mac Pro, new iMac or my Macbook. Even with latestupdayes it always crashed a lot with very big documents (1000 page books) and it hogs resources. On top of that I have a near 100 page index and bibliography in three languages and a couple of thousand or so footnotes and a lot of style formatting, automatic headers and so on.

When they bring out a new release they love to tell how pretty it will look, but there is little information for professional users. I read the blogs and forums trying to decide whether to upgrade to Word 2016 but it seemed the main problems hadn't been fixed so I could potentially be worse off.

My only option with my Mac OS upgrades is to run Mojave on my second most necessary machine and see how bad (or good) it is. Changing OS and programs in a big way in the middle of a 4yr+ project is a harrowing option

Here's a small helper (obvious for techies but maybe helpful for non-techies). How to see if you have (non-compatible) 32-but programs you rely on before converting to Mojave.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/mac-software/apps-work-macos-mojave-3678735/

My version 14.1.0 on DVD will not install to Mojave (not Beta; but that should not make a difference). So then cannot do the update as outlined above, not sure why at the moment. Are you installing from the the latest updated version 14.7.7?

MS 2011 clearly can work on there as I've done, but I cannot get it going via my original 2011 DVD from about that era.

Thanks for this! I hate it when people ask this question and then someone replies with a link to official support or whatever saying "they stopped supporting it with High Sierra". Nobody asked if it's officially supported. We just want to know if IT WORKS! So thank you for pointing this out.

Thank you for this - you may have convinced me to upgrade which I wish to do.

Can I just check whether you checked this for excel as well as word?

Do we know why it doesn't work for some systems?

Thanks, Domc

Please someone who knows more about this than I do either correct me or corroborate: If concerned about leaving a back door for computer becoming vulnerable from unsupported software, couldn't I just go to Security panel, then add "block incoming" under Firewall?

I have a 2013 MacbookAir with i7 (quad core - 64 bit) running Office 2011. Its starting to act up a little, but:

Does the 64-bit CPU indicate I can continue to run 2011 when I'm forced to convert to Mojave?

My pleasure. Glad I could help. I just ran AM and only Office came up 32bit. In another thread they are talking about Photoshop CS5.1 and it came up 64bit, but still needs a tweak to run well. I was surprised that more, and I am running a lot, didn't come up 32bit.

Happy Trails . . . .

Thanks for the information-- it helps a lot. I just updated to Mojave (2012 MBP). I'm glad to know that Office 2011 works (but I get that it's not supported) and that I may have trouble with the next OS update.

Glad I could help. All that matters is that it runs. I could still be running Office 2008, which Entourage is far better than Outlook, except my database was getting very old and out of control. The only way to really clean it up and have it so it could move into 2016, was to move to 2011. And at that fatal time I did not know what Outlook 2016 was like, now I do. So I'm not planning on moving to 2016 since "they" stripped even more out of the apps than they did from 2008 to 2011. Not pretty and totally illogical. Just like the thing Microsoft would do . . . and did . . . and kept doing.

Hi

v.14.7.7 installed.

Thanks for the info and I'll give it all a go later.

Like yourself, and no doubt others, I agree with you on 365 and 2016. Took a look at it all and decided to stay with the devil I know! I also agree with you, from what I can remember, that Outlook was a step down from Entourage but you eventually get used to these things.

Cheers

TY

2016 is nasty 😠 and worse than 2011 and 2011 was a major downgrade on 2008. As I have just said above floating tool palettes in 2008 and below are just the business for saving time, along with easier macros if you like that stuff. Much more like photoshop especially on 2 big Apple 30 inch displays.🙂

Thanks to those of you who are talking about Office 2008 and Mojave. I just bought a new iMac (replaceing a 2010 model). Haven't fired it up yet. Still doing some research to be sure that my migration fears are only fears. I do have Office 2008, but as a designer I only use Adobe Creative Cloud apps. However, I receive Word docs from my clients for import into InDesign. Sometimes I do need to open the Word doc; that's pretty much all I need Office for. Once in awhile I need to open Excel or Powerpoint. So I have been fearful that Mojave will reject Office 2008 alltogether. I usually deny location/internet connection(?) when it asks; I just need to see the document sometimes since one of my clients and I use an integrated style palette (this makes techinical book production so much easier...in fact, can't figure out why more designers don't use style palettes in InDesign for any kind of publication, but that's another discussion!). So I am going to assume all will be well with my Office 2008. I do still have original discs if need (and hopefully updates would be available) as well as the key if I need it. It's been 9 years since my last "migration" and I've been a little terrified! Change is so fast these days.

Any words of advice for me to consider before I do my migration? I do use Time Machine for complete back up (as well as another external backup drive). Have been considering removing all files that I can (photos, layout documents, etc.) from old iMac after backups, then moving them over to new iMac once migration is done. Thinking that would take less time.

I do have this question: CAN MIGRATION BE DONE IN SLEEP MODE? That may be a dumb question, but it seems that when I do my weekly Time Machine backup, computer goes to sleep before done (but maybe not...it's just done and sleeps after). I have energy save set to NEVER, but since I am not sitting here watching it and it is sleeping when I do come back, I am surprised to see it is sleeping when the setting in NEVER.

Ok...any comments/suggestions are wholeheartedly welcomed! Thanks, all.

I would be very interested to know if migration assistant works for you with MS Office 2011 or 2008. It clearly works for me but I am using an older but max'd Mac Mini QC late 2012 so it supports 32 bit apps from the start. However, your new machine starts with Mojave so may not?

'Migration Assistant' and TM backups cannot be done while computer is in sleep mode, so my guess is your screen sleeps (only the screen part) after the backup is complete. But you could check the time of last backup on TM and double check by entering a back up and see if a file from yesterday is there?

Apple Menu / System Preferences / Time Machine