If you really need to work on your Office files, you might consider editing them on Office Online via the web-browser until the problems get solved. Otherwise you just have to reboot your system and cross fingers. From my understanding the system requirements for Office 2016. I'm on El Capitan (10.11.6) and can't upgrade the OS due to other software compatibility issues.

After the Auto Update, updated my Office 2016 for Mac and I could no longer open any Office application. He reports that “the issue occurs when Outlook and another office application such as Word or Excel is running.” Office 2016 for Mac (16.x branch) on El Capitan (10.11.6) won't load and crashes. If you are affected, the comment of group member GeorgeWatkinson-Yull might be of some help. Jeelani asks users who are still facing crashes or hangs to email Microsoft and to share details about the problem. Until the final release, only some of the issues have been fixed.

Is there a workaround for this?”įaisal Jeelani from Microsoft promised back in July that they were “working hard to fix El Capitan issues and will keep pushing out updates to Mac Outlook that will contain these fixes.” I don’t have an issue rolling back to Yosemite but I will lose all my emails. “On a related note, Outlook 2016 for Mac will NOT let me export emails, calendar, etc.