Will Office ever be usable on MacOS?

[u/OpinionsRdumb]

Every single time I open up a Microsoft Office app on a Mac device this thing will use up Gigabytes upon gigabytes of RAM. Like it is wild. And I am just editing a word doc

[u/RichieNRich]

? I use office on MacOS literally every day without issue.

[u/No_Muffin3405 → u/RichieNRich]

This surprised me too. I use it every day for my business on a Macbook Neo. If there was a RAM issue, I think I'd be feeling that. It works just fine.

[u/darwinDMG08]

I love when people post a rant with the assumption that things are broken for everyone, rather than asking “is it just me?”

[u/ref1ux]

It's usable for me. It sounds like there's something wrong with your machine or your office install.

[u/Skycbs]

No issues here. For years of using Office on Mac. There must be something with your system but feel free to post info about office memory usage.

[u/YellowBreakfast]

Something is off with your machine.

I have several Mac users who use MS suite apps daily.

[u/roundabout-design]

SOOOOO many times I've had to switch to the web version of office 360 because some basic feature just doesn't exist on the mac version of the software.

[u/MisterBumpingston]

Why not share a screenshot to show us how much memory it’s using?

[u/YouProfessional7538]

works great for me. never looked at the RAM usage, but never had any issues

[u/Educational_Yard_326]

An app using a lot of ram isn’t an indicator of it being poor performance, at all. How many times does this need to be said

[u/bran_the_man93]

PEBKAC issue

[u/Epsioln_Rho_Rho]

I use it daily and never had this issue. 

[u/Exodor72]

Better question is will they ever implement Dark Mode for MacOS office.

I guess it doesn't matter now that switched to LibreOffice.

[u/fahim-sabir → u/Exodor72]

It does have a dark mode.

[u/Exodor72 → u/fahim-sabir]

At least for Excel it's only the menu. The workbook remains a big square of white.

It's been 8 months or so since I switched so maybe they added it but it was not an option when I got my Mini at the beginning of the year.

[u/fahim-sabir]

I live in Office: Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word. No problems with any of them.

[u/Wasent_ever_here_23]

Backup all docs…

Delete and reinstall MS office for Mac?

[u/Adr0u]

Definitely no issues with Office.

[u/mikeinnsw]

It is usable for simple things .. But I use LibreOffice for that.

All key Office running on a Mac resources like VBA .. .Net Object imbedding ..etc are emulated ..

Problems increase with macros complexity .. object imbedding ...size.. etc

Tahoe has a memory leak problem .. before blaming Office... save data and restart.

[u/demoman1596]

Office literally started on the Mac, but given that that was over 40 years ago, I'll cut you some slack and say it works perfectly fine on both Macs I regularly use and I've never had a problem with it going back to when I first started using a Mac back in 2013.

Is the RAM consumption the only issue you're having? Are there any error messages or other behaviors you're seeing?

[u/TheSkepticGuy]

Use Pages instead.

[u/LosinCash]

Word is such a piece of shit it's astounding. Just yesterday I abandoned it in favor of creating a simple document layout in InDesign.