08 Jul macOS Catalina Incompatible with Microsoft Office 2008 & Office 2011
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Mac Catalina Office 2011
macOS Catalina (due in late September) will be dropping support for 32bit apps. macOS Mojave has been warning us about this every time we launch one of these apps and action on your part will be needed soon. One of the most popular 32bit apps we see is Microsoft Office 2011, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint. If you have been limping along with Office 2008, the same warning applies. See the icons below to determine which version you have.If you are planning on upgrading to Catalina in the fall when it is released, why not save yourself some grief and upgrade to the 2019 version of Office now? The “perpetual” version is $149 (for Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and Office 365 starts at $69 a year.
If you have Office 2016 or 2019, you can open the Microsoft AutoUpdate app to find out if there are updated versions of Office. Alternatively, click “Help” in Word, Excel or PowerPoint and “Check for Updates”.
This Microsoft office for mac 2011 is only compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.8 users or for the more the 10.5.8 version. Below this version of the mac os, it won’t support to install this Microsoft to install or for the further use this Microsoft version was released on 22nd day of the month of September in the year of 2010. I bought Office for Mac 2011 a couple of years ago for my old MacBook. About a year and a half ago I got a MacBook Air and so to get Office on it, I downloaded the trial, and activated it with the product key from my disk. Recently, my Office installation has been playing up (Math-type is impossible to remove) so I uninstalled it. Office for Mac 2011 spewed fonts, automator actions, and frameworks into the System areas and dragging the applications to the Trash is a far cry from a proper uninstall. FoxFifth has posted the correct uninstall link. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and is comparable to Office 2010 for Windows. Office 2011 was followed by Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac released on September 22, 2015, requiring a Mac with an x64 Intel processor and OS X Yosemite or later. Office for Mac 2011 is no longer supported as of October 10, 2017.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Office 2016 and 2019 need to be upgraded to the latest “builds”. Build 16.16.11 or later is required for Office 2016, and build 16.26 or later is required for Office 2019. It would be advisable to do this BEFORE upgrading to Catalina, as it may require reinstalling from Microsoft if you upgrade to Catalina first.
Office 2011 Outlook
Last Updated: October 18, 2019
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With the release of macOS 10.15 (aka Catalina), Apple has stopped supporting 32-bit applications on this new OS. If you have Office 2011, we recommend you upgrade to Office 365 or Office 2019.
You can import your Outlook 2011 data to the new version of Outlook. Important: An Outlook for Mac 2011 identity can only be imported into an empty Outlook for Mac profile. An empty profile is one where there are no other accounts or other data associated with it.
Here are the steps to create a new profile in Outlook for Mac: Note: These steps must be used with Outlook 2016 for Mac or Outlook 2019 for Mac.
Add a profile in Outlook for Mac
- From Finder, open the Applications folder.
- Ctrl+click or right-click Microsoft Outlook, and then select Show Package Contents.
- Open Contents > SharedSupport, and then launch Outlook Profile Manager.
- Select Create a new profile and then enter a name for the new profile.
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For more information on managing profiles in Outlook for Mac, visit: Manage profiles or identities in Outlook for Mac
Once the new profile is created, you can import your Outlook 2011 database. Go to this article Import email messages, contacts, and other items into Outlook for Mac and select the Import identities from Outlook for Mac 2011 drop down. Follow the steps to complete the import.