Hi,
I've bought a 16" MBP, which of course runs Catalina. I'm very fond of Office 2011, particularly Word, and I want to carry on using it. So I've created a generously-endowed VM and installed a clean copy of Mojave, then brought it bang up-to-date.
I downloaded the Office 2011 installer from MS and ran that, then again brought everything up to date.
So I have a clean, up-to-date installation of Office running under a clean, up-to-date installation of Mojave. There is no other software installed on the VM (other than Parallels' own stuff, of course).
Problem: every time I try to run any of the "big three" (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), it crashes immediately after the "choose a document type" dialog. If I double-click an existing Word document, it flashes briefly on screen before Word crashes.
I've fiddled with the memory allocated to the VM, with all the various settings; nothing makes any difference. Other software seems to run just fine (as did the Office installer). I've even tried copying the Microsoft folders (to /Library/Application support and /Library/Preferences) from my iMac Pro, which is running Mojave and on which Word runs as smoothly as it ever has.
I'm stumped. Any ideas gratefully received!
Jeremy
I've bought a 16" MBP, which of course runs Catalina. I'm very fond of Office 2011, particularly Word, and I want to carry on using it. So I've created a generously-endowed VM and installed a clean copy of Mojave, then brought it bang up-to-date.
I downloaded the Office 2011 installer from MS and ran that, then again brought everything up to date.
So I have a clean, up-to-date installation of Office running under a clean, up-to-date installation of Mojave. There is no other software installed on the VM (other than Parallels' own stuff, of course).
Problem: every time I try to run any of the "big three" (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), it crashes immediately after the "choose a document type" dialog. If I double-click an existing Word document, it flashes briefly on screen before Word crashes.
I've fiddled with the memory allocated to the VM, with all the various settings; nothing makes any difference. Other software seems to run just fine (as did the Office installer). I've even tried copying the Microsoft folders (to /Library/Application support and /Library/Preferences) from my iMac Pro, which is running Mojave and on which Word runs as smoothly as it ever has.
I'm stumped. Any ideas gratefully received!
Jeremy
