For all life’s opportunities. With over 1 billion PCs and Macs running Office, Microsoft Office is the most-trusted and most-used productivity suite ever. And Office for Mac 2011 is here to help you do more with your Mac your way. Use familiar applications like Word. I purchased Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Student 2011 in2015. I just had my HD in my computer replaced and need to reinstall the software. I have gone to my order history, pulled up the purchase and selected 'install office'. When I do this, a text document is downloaded, not an installer.
Installing Office 2011 for Mac is pretty simple, because Microsoft Office uses the standard Apple installer. Just double-click the installer icon to start the install process. There are no surprises, and you should be able to accept all the defaults unless you’re an advanced user and want to make a customized installation.
The installer takes you through six stages:
- Introduction.A friendly welcome screen is all you see here.
- License.This is where you get to read (and if you want, print) the license agreement between you and Microsoft. You need to agree to that license in order to continue the installation.
- Destination select.Normally, you install Office on your startup disk.
- Installation type.Here you can customize the install options if you feel you must.
- Installation.This is where the installer does the job of placing the Microsoft Office 2011 folder into your Applications folder. It installs the Office applications, fonts, templates, and the framework to make Office run.
- Summary.Click the Finish button to quit the installer.
When you get to Step 6, the Microsoft AutoUpdate application opens to check whether there are updates from Microsoft available for your Office software. You should immediately install all updates that are available.
If you’re pressed for time, make sure you install these updates as soon as you can.
It’s very important to leave your installation of Office exactly as the installer generated it. Don’t move or rename any of the applications, files, or folders of your Microsoft Office installation in the Applications folder, or Office or parts of it probably won’t work. However, it’s okay to make aliases that link to your Office applications.
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Microsoft hosts secret installation files for Microsoft Office 2011 for Macintosh as well. After pulling almost all other direct downloads, the Office 2011 downloads are among the few remaining ones.
Important Note February 2015
Microsoft has taken down all previous and current download servers (msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net, msft.digitalrivercontent.net, digitalrivercontent.net and drcdn.blob.core.windows.net)! For Office 2011, we were able to find an alternative legitimate download channel.
Office 2011 Test Drive
When starting the installation, you will be provided the choice whether to install the full version of Office 2011 using a product key, or to install a trial edition. If you select the trial edition here, you can evaluate Office 2011 up to 30 days.
Purchase an Office 2011 Activation Key
Should you want to use Office 2011 permanently, and don't own a product key yet, you can order it from an online retailer such as Amazon or eBay. As with all other Microsoft Office versions, the language of the key purchase has no effect on the activation. It can activate all language editions. Here are some purchase links:
Ms Office 2011 For Mac
- Office 2011 Home and Student (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
- Office 2011 Home and Business (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
Download Office 2011 Setup Files
Apart from the downloads in the following table, there are a couple of alternative download sources, all of which require providing a product key.
The files in the following table are direct downloads, officially hosted by microsoft.com, and don't require a key or any other form of authentication.
Hashes for most Office 2011 installers can be found in our hash database.
Language | Office 2011 |
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Chinese, simplified (PR China) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
Chinese, traditional (Taiwan) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
Danish (Denmark) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
Dutch (Netherlands) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
English (USA) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
Finnish (Finland) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
French (France) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
German (Germany) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
Italian (Italy) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
Japanese (Japan) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
Norwegian, Bokmål (Norway) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
Polish (Poland) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
Russian (Russian Federation) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
Spanish (Spain) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
Swedish (Sweden) | MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg |
Previous download links, for reference only
Microsoft Download Office Mac 2011
The following links are no longer active as of February 2015. The file names are provided for reference only.
Language | Office 2011 | Communicator 2011 | Lync 2011 |
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Multi language / all | X17-45976.dmg (SP1) | X17-88377.dmg | |
Multi language / Danish (Denmark) / Norwegian, Bokmål (Norway) | X18-08826.dmg (SP2 old) X19-49596.dmg (SP2 new) | ||
Multi language / Finnish (Finland) / Swedish (Sweden) | X18-08825.dmg (SP2 old) X19-49595.dmg (SP2 new) | ||
Chinese, simplified (PR China) | X17-45990.dmg (SP1 old) X18-08829.dmg (SP2 old) X19-49598.dmg (SP2 new) | ||
Chinese, traditional (Taiwan) | X17-45992.dmg (SP1 old) X18-08831.dmg (SP2 old) X19-49599.dmg (SP2 new) | ||
Danish (Denmark) | X16-92859.dmg (old) X17-15432.dmg (old) X17-45969.dmg (SP1 new) | ||
Dutch (Netherlands) | X16-92862.dmg (old) X17-15435.dmg (old) X17-45972.dmg (SP1 old) X18-08822.dmg (SP2 old) X19-49592.dmg (SP2 new) | ||
English (USA) | X16-92852.dmg (old) X17-15993.dmg (old) X17-45975.dmg (SP1 old) X18-08827.dmg (SP2 old) X19-49597.dmg (SP2 new) | ||
Finnish (Finland) | X16-92858.dmg (old) X17-15431.dmg (old) X17-45968.dmg (SP1 new) | ||
French (France) | X16-92855.dmg (old) X17-15428.dmg (old) X17-45965.dmg (SP1 old) X18-08819.dmg (SP2 old) X19-49589.dmg (SP2 new) | ||
German (Germany) | X16-92853.dmg (old) X17-15426.dmg (old) X17-45963.dmg (SP1 old) X18-08817.dmg (SP2 old) X19-49587.dmg (SP2 new) | ||
Italian (Italy) | X16-92860.dmg (old) X17-15433.dmg (old) X17-45970.dmg (SP1 old) X18-08820.dmg (SP2 old) X19-49590.dmg (SP2 new) | ||
Japanese (Japan) | X16-92856.dmg (old) X17-15429.dmg (old) X17-45966.dmg (SP1 old) X18-08821.dmg (SP2 old) X19-49591.dmg (SP2 new) | ||
Norwegian, Bokmål (Norway) | X16-92861.dmg (old) X17-15434.dmg (old) X17-45971.dmg (SP1 new) | ||
Polish (Poland) | X16-92863.dmg (old) X17-15436.dmg (old) X17-45973.dmg (SP1 old) X18-08823.dmg (SP2 old) X19-49593.dmg (SP2 new) | ||
Russian (Russian Federation) | X16-92864.dmg (old) X17-15437.dmg (old) X17-45974.dmg (SP1 old) X18-08824.dmg (SP2 old) X19-49594.dmg (SP2 new) | ||
Spanish (Spain) | X16-92854.dmg (old) X17-15427.dmg (old) X17-45964.dmg (SP1 old) X18-08818.dmg (SP2 old) X19-49588.dmg (SP2 new) | ||
Swedish (Sweden) | X16-92857.dmg (old) X17-15430.dmg (old) X17-45967.dmg (SP1 new) |