[OSX-Users] Re: Office 2016 - avoid on El Capitan (or don't upgrade)

[Hugh Davis]

I suspect Chris is correct. I think the latest version of Office was working fine on 10.10
/h.

Hugh Davis

Professor of Learning Technologies

Director of Institute for Learning Innovation and Development (ILIaD)

Tel:  +44 (0)2380 593669

Building 16 Rm 1045

Highfield Campus, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

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From: <osx-users-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:osx-users-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> on behalf of Chris Andrews <w at lfie.org<mailto:w at lfie.org>>
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Date: Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 15:22
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Subject: [OSX-Users] Re: Office 2016 - avoid on El Capitan (or don't upgrade)

I don't use MS Office much (only Outlook - and under duress) so haven't really observed this first-hand, but I did see a statement from MS recently about it that said "we continue to work with Apple on a fix" - implying that there's something wrong in OS X as much as in Office. Might need 10.11.1 to really get it back off the ground again.

Chris

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 at 15:19 Hugh Davis <hcd at soton.ac.uk<mailto:hcd at soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
I have this problem too.
Partcularly with my laptop when it sleeps when its running MS office apps – wakes up again with all apps crashed.
Annoying, but I have not lost anything yet.

/h.

Hugh Davis

Professor of Learning Technologies

Director of Institute for Learning Innovation and Development (ILIaD)

Tel:  +44 (0)2380 593669

Building 16 Rm 1045

Highfield Campus, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

Co-ordinates at http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/hcd/

My calendar is at http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/hcd/hcdcal.html




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Subject: [OSX-Users] Office 2016 - avoid on El Capitan (or don't upgrade)

I’ve been getting significant crashes and start-up hangs (requiring forced quits) since going to El Capitan.

Seems it’s a common problem. I’d advise against the combination of Office 2016 for mac and OS X 10.11 until this is fixed. It’s very annoying.

http://www.macworld.com/article/2993132/software-productivity/office-2016-for-mac-update-doesnt-include-fix-for-crashes-under-os-x-el-capitan.html

Tim