Sep 27, 2017  I have not upgraded to OS High Sierra yet, as I rely heavily on Office for Mac in my work (MBP 15' 2017). Latest version is 15.38 across Excel/Word/PP.

I purchased a new MBP 15.4 in 3/2017. I have MSO for MAC Home & Student 2011 installed software. I upgraded my OS in 11/2017 from MACOSSierra 10.12.6 to MACOS High Sierra 10.13.1. My excel workbooks stopped working--i.e., not compatible. I downgraded my OS back down to MACOSSierra 10.12.6 so I could continue to use my excel financial worksheets. MS claims that Office 365 Personal works on high sierra but if you look at their website there are many unhappy folks with many problems including software incompatibility with MSO 365 and the stand along MSO 2016.

I am only interested in word and excel. I know that you must have the latest version of Office to work on high sierra. I would love to upgrade to high sierra but not until I'm confident that my word and excel will work with it.

My financial life is on excel. I am most interested in the PAST SPECIAL feature in Excel where you can paste link, or just paste formulas, or values, etc. Lastly, I would prefer the stand along MSO 2016 but you only get one year of upgrades and patches and support. My question is what experience have you all had? I trust this site more than mso site. Thanks in advance & HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I use MS office 2011 on sierra and have tested briefly on High Sierra - but HS is not my working Mac OS and I just opened a few files etc. MS-office-2011 - first off - IMHO- best value for money I have ever spent in software - and I bought 3 copies because of company / consulting situations - they all work up to and including (so far) High Sierra. Free fonts download for mac.

That is a pretty good run and took a lot of support from Microsoft to make sure they work with these OS versions. For a different perspective - a good friend of mine who uses excel extensively told me that because of Pivot Tables, some other financial functions and macros - that the upgrade was worth it for him as soon as 2016 appeared.

He bought it and tells me I should upgrade every time we discuss software / MS OFFICE etc. On the other hand - I am not a fan of the subscription payments. I don't think there is any Generic answer to upgrading MS Office - but it seems 2016 and the 365 version is a closer match to the windows version capabilities than ever before. My situation is that I am happy with 2011 and they have been supporting it longer than I thought they would - awesome I am expecting to upgrade soon. MS Office 2011 working great for me with High Sierra 10.13.2.

I'm not an Excel user so can not comment specifically to that, however, Word and Powerpoint are fine. Also, MS did announce a while back that they would continue to develop Office apps for the Mac. No telling when they advance the next version though. One thing should be noted about Office 2011. It's a 32 bit app and Apple will likely kill off 32 bit apps with the next version of macOS which we may see later on this year. Office 2016 has been updated to 64 bits so that should be OK. I had Office 365 / 2016 as part of a job with a university, but I yanked it when I was no longer there and installed my 'old' 2011 Home & Student on High Sierra, though MS stated it would not work.

Ans, as it turns out, this install was a week before they stopped supporting 2011, so I ensured I had all the updates applicable before the deadline. I've had no real problems with it at all - beyond some documents (including Excel) take longer than they should / used to to open. And I daresay my mid-2011 Air is probably at the end of MacOS upgrade cycle now, so come October, both the OS and Office will grow old - though not useless - together on it. The local - not 365 - version? Might work on my Air / MacOS, but MS keeping their cards close to the chest on that one - but my guess is they want us to be stuck with a subscription and relying on their online services and storage, so will make the compatibility window (as it were) very small indeed. If my Office 2011 hadn't worked on my High Sierra Air, I probably would have gone to LibreOffice to maintain a local - not virtual - Office.