I have Microsoft home and student 2011 software running in my Mac and whenever I try to save the word file in Mac it says “This is not a valid file name” and it gives the suggestion but still it doesn't work.
Microsoft on Tuesday updated Office 2016 for Mac with security patches and a host of smaller feature changes, but did not fix the constant-crash problem users have reported on OS X El Capitan, Apple's newest operating system. Instead, the company told customers to sit tight and wait for Apple to ship an update for El Capitan, aka OS X 10.11, strongly suggesting that the mess was Apple's responsibility.
'On October 13, 2015, we released an update to Office 2016 for Mac. but this update doesn't address the issues experienced by Office customers with OS X 10.11 El Capitan,' the company said in an unsigned on its support site.
'We are actively working with Apple to ensure resolution with the next update of OS X 10.11 El Capitan.' Related: on its Office 2016 for Mac support discussion forum since Sept. 30, the day Apple released El Capitan. Since then, numerous threads have been produced by users looking for an explanation and a fix. The so far - which harked back to early July, just a day after Microsoft shipped the final Office 2016 for Mac and Apple issued the first public beta of El Capitan - had logged nearly 48,000 views and contained more than 525 messages as of late Tuesday, both extremely large numbers for the forum.
Most of the crashes have involved Outlook, customers reported, but other applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, have also regularly dropped dead, either separately or when Outlook went down. Computerworld staffers running Office 2016 for Mac on El Capitan-powered Macs have been affected as well. Tuesday's Office for Mac 2016 update - available only to consumers or businesses that have subscribed to a rent-not-own Office 365 plan - was billed as a security rollout, but it also included multiple non-security bug fixes and improvements for Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Word. Although Microsoft said that Tuesday's update did not include a fix for the Office 2016 for Mac crashes, some users who had installed the update reported that their applications had stopped dying. 'I installed the Oct.
13 update to Office 2016 about 5-6 hours ago and have had no anomalies since,' said Coe Miles on Tuesday. Not so fast, others countered. 'I thought I was past the lockups after working with the 15.15 patches for about 4 hours, but I just clicked Delete on an email message (in an Office 365 for business account) from the messages list and got the spinning wheel of death,' said someone identified only as 'mogrefy' late Tuesday.
'The wait for stability continues, though thus far it seems to be somewhat improved (Word hasn't locked up on me in a few hours of use, longer than ever before - or maybe it was luck and wishful thinking).' Others added their two cents. 'Everything seemed okay for a few hours after the installation of today's Office 2016 15.15 patches,' echoed a user with the unusual nickname of 'What's that smell' on the same very-long thread. 'However, five hours in I'm starting to see the same crash behavior, where all running Office 2016 apps crash after Outlook experiences the restyled-for-El-Capitan spinning pinwheel of death.' Those customers' experience confirmed Microsoft's statement that there was no crash fix in Tuesday's Office for Mac 2016 update. The Redmond, Wash., company's comment that it was 'working with Apple to ensure resolution with the next update of OS X 10.11,' hinted that Microsoft believed Apple's code was either partly or completely responsible. If the former, a two-punch update may be necessary - one update for El Capitan, another for Office - to stamp out the crashes because of an interdependency.
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Last week, Computerworld suspected that El Capitan at least shared the blame after several staffers who had encountered crashes installed the public beta of OS X 10.11.1 and got some relief. While the dreaded crashes eventually returned, they have diminished in frequency when running OS X 10.11.1. Apple does not set timetables for its OS X (or iOS) updates, and did not reply to Computerworld's questions about responsibility, but the release pace - just six days between the second and third betas of 10.11 - may give Office 2016 for Mac users hope for a speedy resolution. Microsoft, it seems, can do nothing more than wait. Like its customers.
It doesn’t matter that you don’t think Microsoft Word doesn’t matter anymore. It does—for tens, hundreds, thousands of people, Microsoft Word is an every day event. An indispensable tool for getting daily business done. And without it, whether you like it or not, much of what must get done in the world of words wouldn’t, if it weren’t for Word. What matters most to those users is how it works.
Whether it works well. Whether it will get the job done without getting in the way. What matters to the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve traded up from a PC to a Mac and the tens of thousands of IT professionals who have to support them is whether or not Word on the Mac works in the world they work in. Is it invisible. With few exceptions, is exactly that. Word for Windows and Mac now look substantially the same, although you may find that not all of the Windows’ features are available on your Mac.
As a word processing tool, Word 2016—which, at present, is only available as part of an Office 365 subscription—hasn’t changed much since its last major release as. (Students, parents, and teachers may be able to get Office for free or cheap. Check out ) How you create, edit, and style text remains the same as it ever was. What you may notice is that Word now supports some Mac OS-only features such as full screen mode, multi-touch gestures, and retina graphics. Microsoft has also added some Mac-only features of its own, including a Smart Lookup feature that integrates Bing searches and other contextually relevant information from the web when you use the tool on selected text.
All of the Office products also include something that Microsoft now refers to as the Task Pane, which, for my money, is an awful lot like Office’s old Floating Palettes, without the floating. In short, the Task Pane provides an easy way for you to make quick formatting changes to text and other document elements without having to rely on a menu or Ribbon element. Need a little more detail on that word or concept? Word’s Smart Lookup pulls in more details from the Web. Over the past several years Microsoft has undertaken a massive redesign of its Office products for Mac and iOS. These updates have streamlined the look and feel of Office apps, making them more like their Windows versions, but with what I find to be a far less cluttered look and feel. In fact, the new Mac version is as clean as Word on the iPad, which is an excellent app, and it also has some of the same limitations.
The upside to this sameness is that, whether you’re working on a PC at your office, your iPad on the train, or your Mac at home, you’ll find the tools you need in substantially the same places. A simple click on the current editing tab hides the Ribbon and gives you more room for words. While there is an essential “sameness” to all these apps, you will still find that some features found in the Windows version are nowhere to be found on the Mac. For example, the option to add a pop-up calendar to a table—a feature you’ll find in the Windows version—isn’t available on the Mac. But.if you use your Mac to add a properly formatted date to a document with a table including that feature, the field will retain the calendar option when you open it again on a PC. This raises an important point: Word for Mac is top-notch when it comes to collaborative work.
This is obvious when it comes to basic document editing. Email a document to someone, have them make changes, and send it back to you. If they’re using the current version of Word on the device they edit with, the transition is seamless. But, better yet, share your document using, or a, and you can have dozens of people working on the same document at the same time, each without interfering with the other’s changes.
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Word’s collaborative tools also include threaded comments, so you can see and interact with others within the comments on a document. Word 2016 offers excellent collaboration features with tools for resolving conflicts for edits in the same part of a document. Word 2016 isn’t without disappointments, but they are by no means deal killers. Word takes no advantage of Apple’s Autosave and Versions features. So you’re stuck with what now seems like a vestige of some ancient past. Have a power failure? Dog step on your power strip?
You’re relegated to the weeping and gnashing of teeth you no longer expect when bad things happen and you have unsaved changes in a document. This also seems to be tied to Word’s collaboration features, which, while excellent, are not as dynamic as I’d like them to be. If you’re editing a document while someone else is also making changes, you don’t see their changes until both they and you save the document. (Compare this with Pages, which updates changes almost as soon as they’re made, no matter who is editing the document.) Finally, Word doesn’t support Yosemite’s option to rename and/or move a document using the menu in the document’s title bar. Word 2016 doesn’t support Yosemite’s Autosave features, so you can forget about the power going out and your unsaved changes still being in your document.
Bottom line Microsoft Word 2016 is an excellent update to what is, for most users, an important business tool. Changes to the program’s user interface make it easy for anyone to bounce from Word on a Mac to Word on any other platform with a minimal transitional curve. Word’s collaboration features make it possible for business users to work on the computing platform of their choosing without making significant sacrifices. While the program doesn’t support some of Yosemite’s more important, user friendly, and bacon-saving features—such as Autosave—the overall user experience is superb.
In short, Microsoft Word gets the job done without getting in the way, If Word is your primary tool for getting work done with words, run, don’t walk to upgrade to Word 2016.