Posted on 10/03/2015 12:27:42 AM PDT by Swordmaker
If you are a Mac user that relies on Office 2016 apps to get your day-to-day work done then you might want to hold off on upgrading to OS X El Capitan.
According to an extensive thread on Microsoft's Office for Mac support forum - combined with firsthand experience of the issue - the problems seem many and varied. Outlook appears to be the main culprit, but Excel and Word are also reported to be problematic for some. For some the apps crash while in use, while for others it is coming out from sleep that causes issues. Others are finding that as soon as one app from the Office 2016 suite crashes or locks up, the others then follow suit.
There are multiple claims that suggest the crashes only occur if two or more Office 2016 apps are run simultaneously.
Currently there doesn't seem to be any fix for this issue other than rebooting the Mac and waiting for the apps to crash again.
This doesn't appear to be a new problem related to the OS X El Capitan final release either. The first complaints began to appear early July soon after the first public beta of OS X 10.11 El Capitan landed. Others claim that the issues were present in earlier releases of OS X.
According to Faisal Jeelani, who is identified on the support forum as "Program Management | Outlook for Mac," Microsoft is "working closely with Apple to resolve this issue as soon as possible" but that at present no timeline for the fix exists.
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I just say your heads up as I was prepping this post. Thanks. . .
YIKES! I am so happy that I do not use any crap from Redmond!!!!
“OS X ain’t done til Office won’t run.” ;)
Move to WinX.......
Yep, nothing but pure Cupertino crap for you!
Apple, Where Quality is Job 1.
Or not...since it is an OFFICE issue not a windows issue
Thanks for posting this. I didn’t download it, said “Remind me later”, glad I didn’t.
Does Office run using Wine?
Wow, glad I’m sticking with Office 2011 at least for awhile. I just upgraded to El Capitan yesterday and not having Excel would have been a showstopper. My big worries were Quicken 2007 and Filemaker 12 but everything seems to be nominal so far.
I have office for mac version 2011 and have no problems and I installed El Capitan the other day.
Maybe the new 2016 office versions are the only ones having the issue?
Spoke too soon. I think I have to re input the wireless code. Damn.
Good to know, thanks. I have Office 2011 and haven't yet gone to El Capitan from Yosemite.
or perhaps whine?
Office ‘07 works under XPP in a VirtualBox under Ubuntu. Once the XPP gets shut down, Ubuntu shuts down in 4 seconds.
I can’t print wirelessly now. Ticks me off. Last time I had a problem the printer asked for wireless code. This time it wants an access point which I do not have.
Lame.
Apple, Where Quality is Job 1.
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Do you have even the slightest comprehension that this is a Microsoft problem? Just as other companies that want to use Apple products to run their app or software, Microsoft is given (WELL IN ADVANCE) developer copies of the upcoming Apple software and specs. This is to allow those companies’ developers to update THEIR applications so they are compliant and work correctly. To the extent that Microsoft neglected to correctly update Office 2016, it (Microsoft) is at fault.
But perhaps that doesn’t fit your desired narrative?
I have office for mac version 2011 and have no problems and I installed El Capitan the other day.
Maybe the new 2016 office versions are the only ones having the issue?
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I have the 2011 version of the software also and have had zero problems with it under El Capitan. I should point out that I only use it for Excel (which I love and can’t bring myself to learn Apple numbers as well as I know Excel).
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