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Office 2016 / EL Capitan don't play well together
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On my MacBook Air it's Word 2016 is working great on El Cap, but oddly on my Hackintosh it's not - everything works great except when selecting text it has this weird white highlighting effect that blanks out an entire line, so I can't see what I'm selecting. Otherwise I'm able to open/save files fine. Only other issue is that sometimes when quiting Word, it will crash closed but other than that it's been great. Haven't tested Excel or Outlook.
Well, add me to the list of folks with Office 2016/365 crashing after upgrading to El Capitan.
Office 2016 had been running perfectly in heavy use in Yosemite. The El Capitan upgrades went very smoothly on both my 2010 MacBook and 2011 iMac, and the Office apps seemed OK in light testing. Then this morning I set out to do serious Office work on the iMac. OneNote was working fine, and I had PowerPoint open revising a presentation. Then tried to open Word and it would not light up. Had to force quit Word. Then had to Force Quit Word and OneNote. Not using Outlook.
The Office crash started when I tried to open a Word document attached to an email. I rebooted the iMac, opened Word, dragged the attachment onto Desktop, and opened the document fine from within Word.
So I fired up the MacBook, started Mail, and clicked on that same Word document attachment. Word started to fire up then crashed with a window asking me to restart Word. I did that and then Word and the document opened fine.
Bottom line: El Capitan and Office 2016 are not playing well on either of my computers. Hope there is a fix soon! I regret updating the iMac to El Capitan so soon. Should have learned after the hassles I had initially with v1 Yosemite.
Office 2016 had been running perfectly in heavy use in Yosemite. The El Capitan upgrades went very smoothly on both my 2010 MacBook and 2011 iMac, and the Office apps seemed OK in light testing. Then this morning I set out to do serious Office work on the iMac. OneNote was working fine, and I had PowerPoint open revising a presentation. Then tried to open Word and it would not light up. Had to force quit Word. Then had to Force Quit Word and OneNote. Not using Outlook.
The Office crash started when I tried to open a Word document attached to an email. I rebooted the iMac, opened Word, dragged the attachment onto Desktop, and opened the document fine from within Word.
So I fired up the MacBook, started Mail, and clicked on that same Word document attachment. Word started to fire up then crashed with a window asking me to restart Word. I did that and then Word and the document opened fine.
Bottom line: El Capitan and Office 2016 are not playing well on either of my computers. Hope there is a fix soon! I regret updating the iMac to El Capitan so soon. Should have learned after the hassles I had initially with v1 Yosemite.
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Had huge issues with Outlook 2016 and Exchange. Deleted account profile from my Mac and then added it back. Stable since then.
I have done a clean install of El Capitan on 2013 rMBP and 2015 MB. Then installed 'one time purchase' version of Office 2016 Home & Biz (deleted Outlook after install). Have been using Word mostly. Rock solid! Not a single crash.
Wish I had seen this: https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/offi...table-on-el-capitan-be-careful-if-you-upgrade
So, if I am summarizing things correctly, there are issues with 10.11 with both Office 2011 (at a minimum, Outlook may not run correctly) and Office 2016? I think I've got that right, so is staying on 10.10 and 2011 the best approach for now?
Well this article proves that Microsoft knows about the problems.
http://www.macworld.com/article/298...l-capitan-crashes-but-lacks-eta-for-fix.html?
http://www.macworld.com/article/298...l-capitan-crashes-but-lacks-eta-for-fix.html?
How about running it in Parallels?
For some, Office is a necessity..........sticking with Yosemite until they fix it, no matter if it's an Apple issue or Microsoft issue.
For some, Office is a necessity..........sticking with Yosemite until they fix it, no matter if it's an Apple issue or Microsoft issue.
Could do, but since I don't use Outlook Office 2011 does the job.
Another aspect is that I don't like a word processor (nor a spreadsheet or presentation app) that (each) opens 5-6 different connections to external servers with the main purpose of sending information from my client. I don't care what the purpose is, please stay away from my private information.
Might be different with the standalone Office 2016.
Actually I really for whatever reason have not experienced problems. Used Word and Excel excessively and the only time it crashed was the first time it downloaded. Has not crashed since that one time.
I don't use Outlook and OneNote and haven't used Powerpoint yet. Also I'm getting Office 2016 from my school (free Offie 365 to all students) but I don't think that changes the software, just the license.
But its good to see MS fixing it quickly.
I don't use Outlook and OneNote and haven't used Powerpoint yet. Also I'm getting Office 2016 from my school (free Offie 365 to all students) but I don't think that changes the software, just the license.
But its good to see MS fixing it quickly.
Installed El Cap and Office 365/2016 over the weekend. Immediate issues with "beach ball" delays in Outlook and Word. Word paint issues while in Review mode (track changes on) in a 40-page heavily edited document - body text disappeared for several pages, while margin comments remained visible (dotted lines pointing to the blank text area); restart of Word fixed this.
Opening Excel/Word/Powerpoint now shows blank dialog with "On My Mac" and nothing else showing; could not find an option to open Recent or "Documents" folder by default - annoying.
Panic when trying to Save As - another almost totally blank dialog box; no folders, servers, directories, anything clickable. Finally noticed "On My Mac" button at the bottom, which opens the standard Save As dialog; this it seems to remember now as default.
Still getting beach ball delays and occasional crashes in Outlook.
At this point I never know if I will have to force close everything when I load a work file. It is super annoying. Microsoft only had months to fix the issue.
The reason is that Word and Excel 2011 do not have a problem. Word and Excel 2016 do. However, Outlook 2011 does.
Lou
Been using Word and Excel 2011 for the past year and just start using 2016 a week ago. No problems
Like I said, those seem mine. Never used Outlook 2011 or 2016 so I can't speak to that.
Just a note to add to the unrest. Outlook 2011 for mac opens then seizes up after El Capitan install last friday. I'll get my tech to look at it and see what she suggests and post here.