Office 2016 For Mac El Capitan

Posted on 23-04-2021 by admin

Microsoft Office 2016 – Unmistakably Office, designed for Mac. The new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote provide the best of both worlds for Mac users – the familiar Office experience paired with the best of Mac. If you already use Office on a PC or iPad, you will find yourself right at home in Office 2016 for Mac.

Office 2016 works fine on the GM. However, Outlook 2011 crashes on launch just like it did on the betas. My company hasn't updated their exchange servers to 2010 or newer so I can't use office 2016! I am using Outlook for Windows under Parallels and that works great but not a good solution for the MacBook 12-inch as it uses a lot of resources. The new OS for Macs OS X 10.11 El Capitan has been released but don’t upgrade yet if you use Office 2016, Office 2011 or the following apps. Oct 21 Update: Apple has now released the first OS X 10.11.1 update for El Capitan which claims to have fixed various problems including with Office 2016 and Mail. OFFICE 2016 and El Capitan are totally unusable together. 2011 OFFICE is fine. I just deleted 2016 OFFICE and reinstalled 2011. I was plagued with constant crashes on opening files in the entire. After a few weeks of frustration for Macintosh users, Apple has released a patch which will, hopefully, fix the Office 2016/Mac crashes. According to Apple the El Capitan Update 10.11.1 ‘Improves compatibility’ with Microsoft Office 2016 which is corporate weasel words for ‘fixed bugs’.

Introduction

This article describes the Office 2016 for Mac update KB3098225 that was released on September 23, 2015. The update provides bug fixes and feature improvements to Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac. This update has a prerequisite.

Summary

This update provides the following fixes to improve Mac OS X El Capitan compatibility:

The Folder Pane, Message List, and Reading Pane now render correctly on startup and when you switch between views.
The green window button now performs the 'zoom' behavior instead of entering Full Screen mode. Full Screen mode is not yet supported in Outlook.

How to obtain the update

AutoUpdate

This update is available for manual download and installation from Microsoft AutoUpdate for Mac:

Virus-scan claim

Microsoft scanned this file for viruses by using the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help prevent any unauthorized changes to it.

About Microsoft AutoUpdate for MacAutoUpdate is provided together with Office. It automatically keeps Microsoft software up-to-date. To use AutoUpdate, start a Microsoft Office program, and then click Check for Updates on the Help menu.

PrerequisitesTo apply this update, you must be using Mac OS X Yosemite (version 10.10) or a later version, and you must have a valid Office 365 Subscription. See more information about Office 365 Subscription options.
Note If you already have Office for Mac 2011 installed, you can run Office 2011 and Office 2016 side-by-side.

Restart requirementYou don't have to restart the computer after you install this update.

Update replacement informationThis update replaces the Outlook 2016 for Mac release 15.14.