• Migrate Microsoft Office To New Mac
• Transfer Microsoft Office 2016 To New Mac
• Transfer Office 365 To New Computer
• Transfer Microsoft Office 2011 To New Mac

Launching Migration Assistant on the PC is a one-way trip: It's only designed to transfer data from your PC to a new Mac. After launching it, Migration Assistant for Windows will try to connect to its Mac counterpart. A security code will display on the screen. Confirm that the code on your PC is the same on your Mac. If you're the Microsoft 365 admin of an Office for business plan, users in your organization can only install Office using the steps in this topic as long as your plan includes the desktop version of Office, and you've assigned the user a license and given them permission to install Office (Manage software download settings in Microsoft 365).

I tried to do this with Migration Assistant (OS Lion to OS Lion) and it did not work. I called Microsoft, and they suggested various things, but in the end the following worked:

a) Make sure that there is NO copy of Office 2008 on the new computer. (Go into applications and get rid of the folder if it is there, and then empty your trash).

Migrate Microsoft Office To New Mac

b) Go back to your old computer and copy the entire Microsoft Office 2008 folder (which you will find in Applications) onto a memory stick or portable hard disk (it is about 1.4 gigs), and then copy that folder into the Applications folder of your new computer.

c) Launch it on your new computer. It will take you through registration, etc, but it should work.

Transfer Microsoft Office 2016 To New Mac

Transfer Office 365 To New Computer

NOTE: Doing it this way works fine for everything but Entourage. This will not migrate some of your Entourage data, according to Microsoft.

NOTE 2: If the above does not work, erase all MS OFFICE 2008 files/folders from your new mac and create a new user profile and start again.

Transfer Microsoft Office 2011 To New Mac

Feb 16, 2012 10:54 AM