Microsoft Office 2011 Mac Stopped Working

25-04-2021
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AutoUpdate 3.0.5 was installed with the last Office update a few days ago. Microsoft has backed off from the mess it made with a new version of AutoUpdate you can download now. The problem only happens if you're using both the Office 2016 preview Microsoft has posted as well as Office 2011.

Microsoft Office Has Stopped Working

Support for Office for Mac 2011 ended on October 10, 2017. All of your Office for Mac 2011 apps will continue to function. However, you could expose yourself to serious and potentially harmful security risks. Upgrade to a newer version of Office so you can stay up to date with all the latest features, patches, and security updates. Feb 03, 2014 Then, open the Application Support folder, then Microsoft. Finally, open the MAU2.0 folder, and run Microsoft Update - and click the Check for Updates button. Install the updates, and return to the same Microsoft Update (installing updates will likely run that again automatically, but I suggest trying a manual check anyway, until Office is fully up-to-date.).

Once you installed the previous version of AutoUpdate, you'd find that it would locate but would be unable to install an update to Office 2011. What's worse, the AutoUpdate program would grab lots of memory and generally make a mess of things. People were running into this problem:

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Microsoft Office 2011 Mac Not Responding

To get past it, the easiest thing to do is to to run AutoUpdate again. It'll find the updated version of itself and install it. To do so, just select the 'Check for Updates' option in the Help menu of any open Microsoft application.

Office Stopped Working

If that doesn't work, or if you don't trust AutoUpdate to do the right thing, you can download the latest updater from Microsoft's web site and install it yourself. That'll download to your Downloads folder as a .pkg file.

How to run the AutoUpdate installer

  1. Double-click on 'Microsoft AutoUpdate 3.0.6.pkg' to launch the installer.
  2. Click Continue.
  3. Click Continue again to install it to your Mac's hard drive.
  4. Click Install.
  5. Enter your administrator password and click Install Software.
  6. After it's done click the Close button.

Microsoft Office 2013 For Mac

That's it.

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