

What to doįorget Microsoft’s clumsy excuses, it’s best to switch to Office 2016 for Mac.

Does anyone believe that the Office for Mac team hasn’t tried Office 2011 on their High Sierra previews? – gimme a break. It also insults the intelligence of your average Mac user. Redmond’s interest is in getting people to Office 2016 for Mac, which means more money for the company. That’s typically arrogant and self-serving from Microsoft. “Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Lync have not been tested on macOS 10.13 High Sierra, and no formal support for this configuration will be provided. Though Apple says that 32-bit applications (like Office 2011) will work on High Sierra, Microsoft isn’t even bothering to find out. The next release of the MacOS, called High Sierra, will be the last release to support 32-bit programs. The software will continue to work but there’s another catch, thanks to Apple. Office 2011 for Mac will lose support on 10 October 2017, just over month from now.Īfter that date there will be no more updates, especially security updates for Office 2011. LibreOffice has detailed user guide PDFs, though you can still expect a learning curve.There are changes coming with both Office for Mac and Apple’s MacOS which Mac users need to be aware of.

Then there is the free LibreOffice Suite which in March 2023, will no longer support High Sierra for new releases and require Mojave at that time.

Softmaker's Office 2021 suite of applications is still supported on High Sierra and it has the modern Word interface and native document compatibility. Once Ventura is released, in very short order, Microsoft will make macOS Big Sur the minimum Office installation platform. They also disabled the license servers for their retired products, and any new installation (currently) older than macOS Catalina or later will be blocked. Microsoft has retired all prior Office versions except the current Microsoft 365, Office 2019 for Mac, and Office 2021 for Mac. Unless you have Word (Office 2011 for Mac) backed up on Time Machine from that same Mac mini's hard drive where it was originally installed, you cannot get Word for macOS High Sierra.
