Interesting, the site implies that it should automatically pick up the updates and bring things to the 64 bit mode without having to do anything other than run the updates.  What's kinda weird, is for me, Word is probably the one piece that I've ever had luck with running on Sierra, but when I go in and run the auto-update program from inside word, the only piece it tries to download (after updating autoupdate) is the patch for word, which brings it to a version number that's now higher than 15.25, which is apparently where they made that change.  But it makes no effort at all to download patches for the rest of the suite that's installed, which is probably why I'm running into this issue so much.  I've seen this behaviour with the patch download on a number of machines -  word is the only thing that gets updated.  I haven't been able to find a way to run their autoupdate utility outside of from inside one of the office applications either, to see if that would then cause them all to update.

Working on trying to manually download that patch referenced and see how things update after that.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 11:06 AM, duynslag <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

In order to run OFFICE 2016 on Sierra you have to download the 64 bit package.    32 bit Office 2016 no longer works on Sierra.  After you do that you will be good to go.

 

 

Download the 64-bit Upgrade pack https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3187505

Install

Open Program that used to crash  Word, Excel, One Note, Power Point…

Go to Help > Check for Updates

Update everything via updater

 

 

Take Care,

 

LD

 

From: "Bosman, Don" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "Bosman, Don" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, February 13, 2017 at 11:03 AM
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] office 2016 and macos sierra - people still having issues?

 

You might want to try the new web interface.

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Good morning,

 

Just a heads up that Innovative released a web based Sierra that is equivalent to what the java client is. The web interface can be accessed from a web browser via VPN if off the campus. Using the same login for Sierra java client.

 

To access it, go to http://magic.msu.edu/sierra/sierraweb

 

We are still working on a plan to test and make sure if all is working as its java client counterpart. But I want to give you a heads up that we may have an alternative to the java client finally, as the web interface uses ajax but not java applets.

 

Stay tuned.

 

Dao

 

Dao Rong Gong

Systems Librarian/Integrated Library System Coordinator

Michigan State University Libraries

366 W. Circle Drive, East Lansing MI 48824

517-884-0884 

 

 

 

From: Gary Schrock [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 10:56 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MSUNAG] office 2016 and macos sierra - people still having issues?

 

I'm just kinda curious whether everyone else that has users running Sierra on a Mac is still having problems with Office 2016 not working for them?  So far, as far as I can tell the combination still seems to be something of a mess, and I'm just shocked that between MS and Apple they haven't managed to get this working adequately.

 

For us, it seems that if the Mac was running Sierra before office was installed, what we end up with afterwards is typically at least some of the office programs crashing immediately after you try starting them.  I've tried updating everything to the latest patches, and even tried the fast-track updates for office since I've seen that suggested by a number of people, and pretty consistently have no luck getting it to function properly.

 

Oddly, if office 2016 was installed before the mac upgraded to Sierrra, we seem to have more luck with that.  I've got a couple of people where that happened, and Office 2016 seems to work ok for them.

 

Gary