Mac OS Mojave & Microsoft Office 2011

I ran 2008, 2011 and 2016 with no issues. It's just which version you prefer using. Although 2008 has Entourage instead of 2011 & 2016 having Outlook for their eMail Clients and that moves you into a whole new can of featureless worms.

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?

The only difference is that 2011 and lower are NOT 64bit. That's where 2016 comes in, it is. I read something somewhere to run the Activity Monitor to check to see what of your apps are 64bit. It would not run well nor give me the bit info in Mojavé. I have moved back to my Sierra partition and fired up AM and it's running all over the place and under the "Disk" tab in the "Kind" column it'll say 32 bit or 64 bit. It's far more responsive than it was in Mojavé. It is showing Office 2011 as 32bit. I was playing with 2016 on my laptop as I was draining a new battery and it said that Outlook was 64bit. Not liking the way it looks and there again they removed more features. So for now I'm gonna stay in Sierra with Office 2011.

I hope this helps. Good Luck and Safe Journeys . . .

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.

I have now opened with Mojave several times and MS Office simply will not work. It keeps asking me to re-install 2011. This applies to Outlook, Excel and Word. Outlook opens but is blank and states is "offline". "Activate" brings up the same warnings about needing to be updated.

Obviously, Office works fine with High Sierra and Mojave is installed in a separate partition. As it works fine in High Sierra I am loathe to re-install.

Any advice on this one would be appreciated.

Thanks

TY

You will need to update to v14.7.7, if not there now. You will have to install the 14.1.0 update first, then you can use the 14.7.7 update. Search for these updaters:

Office2011-1410UpdateEN.dmg

Office2011-1477Update_EN-US.dmg

I used to have my Office install on a separate storage partition from the working OS's (so if the OS hammers and it will, all I have to recover is the OS) and Alias'd the User Data folder to the Documents folder. But these days it's becoming too risky. So I install Office in the working OS and copy the Database to the Documents folder. This will also increase the size of TimeMachine back ups if you have a large Office database. So beware, it's the nature of the beast.

If you are operating from another partition you will need to copy over your database folder for Office: Previous Working Install/Documents/Microsoft User Data to ~ (User in the current OS)/Documents/ . Since you have fired up Office, even though it failed, it should/may have made this folder that you will have to write over the folder (with all Office apps closed) that "has no data in it" with the one that does. If you have a database from an earlier version, i.e.: Office 2008, it will "update" the database to 2011 and you will have two "Identity" folders: one for Office 2008 (your old database) and the new Office 2011. OF WHICH if you are going to Office 2016, you will need to update the database to 2011 first, then move it to or install Office 2016 over 2011 and have 2016 update it again. You can archive the previous databases. But you have to go 2008 to 2011 to 2016. This is the only way it will work to get from 2008 to 2016 or further. They assume that you have been diligent in keeping up to date with their releases even though it may have not been "affordable". MS will try to push you to Office 365 which a lot of people are not liking. I don't care for 2016, much less 365. I have been using Office 2008 in Mojavé, but updated to 2011 since my database was so old and I feared it would eventually corrupt. Otherwise, I would have stayed in 2008. This is where I discovered that Office 2008 has a far better set of applications. As the Office's have been released they have stripped out the best features that were in the previous versions. That's why I will not be going to 2016.

Hope this helps . . .

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.

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.

I have installed Mojave and my Office 2011 still works to a degree. Many of the functions are not working at this time and I'm still trying to find the problem. I do not recommend that you do the upgrade at this time until this issue is addressed.

I'm running Office 2011, although the suite itself is sorely lacking compared to Office 2008, in Mojavé 10.14.2b on Macbook Pro now. But up until I have had no issues. I was even able to install from the 2011 installer. I have it on my MacPro running 10.14.1, no problems there either.

Way too much doom and gloom without any real explanation. So anyone please tell us what issues are being had and why not to update, to what, until they are discovered . . .

The only issues I have read about are those from Microsoft trying to scare everyone to Office 365. Office 2011 is bad enough and 2016 a nightmare, so I'm staying right here. If the database wasn't all "converted" I could go back to 2008. Far more functional.

For me Word 2011 is running on Mojave, but some - for me important functions - like Review are not working properly, e.g. when I make a Review with "Final Showing Markup" option and try to delete a letter, Word is crushing.