SO - if I upgrade to Office for Mac 2016, will things work then? Given the price of this software, I am hoping for a clear and simple answer that will not require me to tinker endlessly to do things that software at this price should do automatically. So I thought I should be OK … I paid over £100 to upgrade to Endnote X 8.2.

Microsoft Word for Macintosh: 2011, 2016 (version 15.21.1 or later, including version 16.x).

CD-ROM drive required for installation of shipped version (not required for installation of download version).

Macintosh compatibility and system requirements In the hope that it would solve the problem, I looked at the full compatibility page for Endnote X8. There I saw: no CWYW in Word, insert citation from Endnote told me there was no open document to insert into, and no Endnote section in the Tools Menu, and so on. But they no longer worked TOGETHER - i.e. Word 2011 continued to work, and Endnote 7.7.1 continued to work.

Then I bought a new MacBook Pro 2018 running OS X 10.13.3 High Sierra. LibreOffice has detailed user guide PDFs, though you can still expect a learning curve.Up to a week or so ago, I was running Endnote X7.7.1 and Word 2011 for Mac on a 2011 MacBook Pro under OSX 10.10 Yosemite.

Then there is the free LibreOffice Suite which in March 2023, will no longer support High Sierra for new releases and require Mojave at that time.

Softmaker's Office 2021 suite of applications is still supported on High Sierra and it has the modern Word interface and native document compatibility. Once Ventura is released, in very short order, Microsoft will make macOS Big Sur the minimum Office installation platform. They also disabled the license servers for their retired products, and any new installation (currently) older than macOS Catalina or later will be blocked. Microsoft has retired all prior Office versions except the current Microsoft 365, Office 2019 for Mac, and Office 2021 for Mac.

Unless you have Word (Office 2011 for Mac) backed up on Time Machine from that same Mac mini's hard drive where it was originally installed, you cannot get Word for macOS High Sierra.

Word for macos 10.13