Office For Mac 2011 Yosemite Crash

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If you have been annoyed by an unexpected Microsoft Office crash on Mac OS X Yosemite (OS X 10.10):

And then, to make matters even worse, Office refuses to start after crashing. Throwing an almost cryptic error that looks like this: “Microsoft Excel quit unexpectedly” –just replace Excel with Word or PowerPoint-, as well as a reference about an exception type EXC_BAD_ADDRESS, something like this:

Outlook for Mac 2011 on OS X 10.11 hangs during account sync operation. Microsoft's workaround: To work around this issue, run Outlook for Mac 2011 on Mac OS X Yosemite (version 10.10) or an earlier version. Is there anything else I can do? The Database Utility is located under Applications – Microsoft Office 2011 – Office – Microsoft Database Utility.app. I had to shut down my computer manually first, then refuse to enter a password for any application that sounded like it might be related to Microsoft so that Outlook would not open in the background and freeze up again and refuse to quit so the database could. Jan 03, 2015  I use Word and Excel from Office 2011 (all updates loaded as they come) on my iMac. I upgraded to 10.10 last week and that was the end of Word & Excel. They no longer work. So after many goes to get them started I deleted Office 2011 from Applications with. Jul 28, 2014  Microsoft Office AutoRecover. This post is written for users of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, although you’ll find much of the information applies to prior and subsequent copies of Office. First thing, turn it on: Open Microsoft Word. In the Menu Bar, click Word then select Preferences. /canon-mp620-driver-for-mac-mojave.html. Jul 28, 2014 Microsoft Office AutoRecover. This post is written for users of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, although you’ll find much of the information applies to prior and subsequent copies of Office. First thing, turn it on: Open Microsoft Word. In the Menu Bar, click Word then select Preferences.

The other important thing to note is that Office 2016 for Mac only works with OS X 10.10 Yosemite or higher – it does not work with OS X 10.9 Mavericks or lower so make sure you are definitely running OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, macOS Sierra 10.12.

Then, welcome to the club. I would assume you may have tried following some of the recommended solutions for this, as visible at the following sites:

  • From Apple support: Office crashing due to possible font corruption
  • High tech dad blog: How to fix Mac Office 2011 crashing in Yosemite
  • From Microsoft support: Office for Mac 2011 crashes or hangs at startup

I tried most of them with no luck at all. Speaking from my own experience, once one of the Microsoft products crashes, the other ones will not get past the crash window.

The same exact problem occurred with Excel and Word at different times.

I ended up finding out the culprit were some auto recovery files that were located at “Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Office 2011 AutoRecovery/”. That is where Microsoft stores the autosave information, as well as product status files.

Office For Mac 2011 Yosemite Crash

Yosemite Mac Version

If you are planning to proceed with the following steps, please note you may end up removing autosave information from files you are actively using -time machine backups, anyone?-.

Office For Mac 2011 Yosemite Crash Video

What worked for me was the following procedure. Go to Finder (shortcut: shift-tab, press tab as many times as needed until you get to Finder), then press the following shortcut: shift-command-g. Last, you should paste the following information in the “Go To Folder” window:

Once that is done you may need to press shift and then either click Ok or press enter, this will open a new Finder window. Then you should be able to remove the autosave files you find there. Agenda app for macos. I would encourage you to leave alone other product files that you find at this location.

When you are done, close the window and try to start the Microsoft Office product you had issues with.

If it works, please comment below. If it does not work for you, then please check the other links provided above, and good luck with your research.

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Small print:

Office For Mac 2011 Yosemite Crash Update

  • This procedure worked for my particular issue, this did not require for me to re-install either the operating system or the Microsoft Office products. I did not have to create a new user to make the software run again either.
  • My Mac did not have fonts corruption as other people has experienced.
  • If you decide to follow these recommendations, make sure you have a backup of the files.
  • Make sure you do NOT remove any other files or directories while cleaning up.
  • This can also be done from a Terminal session, just do not screw things up.