Just Fred Loc: Darwin's Waiting Room

The current release is 10.13.1.

tomcat

I use the Apple versions of Office software all the time for my Macs. It is better than the MS version that I had to use on PCs years ago. I use Photos for ordering Apple Photo Books. For every vacation, holiday, family event, etc, I always get an Apple Photo Book. The program is very easy to use and the books are inexpensive for the quality that you get with them, averaging $25-$30. I like these much better than prints in a 3-ring binder of plastic pages. Give Photos a try and see if you like the Books.

tomcat

I've had no problems with Office on my Macs since any upgrade. There is a recurring problem with "Excel quitting unexpectedly" every time I quit, but I just continue to send the reports to Apple.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

I'm not sure it is fair to compare current Apple or MS office software to MS versions for PCs years ago. I use both families of Office products, but as I said before, the Apple products are still in their teens compared to MS Office... in my opinion.

I have given iPhoto and Photos a serious try but don't happen to like them. My biggest beef is that I can't access my files by filename in those products. Many folks on UHH have beaten me up over this, saying I should be using keywords to "label" my images. Well, I prefer to put the descriptors into the filename... thank you very much. That way I can find what I am looking for without resorting to ANY photo file manager; I simply do it from the Finder. And those files can also be located, identified and accessed by a Windows computer at any time as well right from the file manager. I just like to be in charge of my images. I want the computer to be a slave to me, not the other way around.

As for photo books, great idea. I have used Snapfish in the past. But again, I don't let the software create my book; rather, I do it myself. The auto-create is often impressive, but you can do so much more if you take the time to present your images in the way you want.

tomcat

The only use that I have for Photos is the Books. I just import only the photos into Photos that I intend to use as a book; thus I don't have any filename issues because I still use LR for processing images. I have 100% control over the way that the pages look. The software only loads a suggested design and then you can change each page to look just as you want--layouts including backgrounds and page colors, etc. Do try it. I liked it better than Snapfish.

bw79st Loc: New York City

No problem here, but I have a Late 2015 iMac desktop so I didn't expect any issues. Same thing with my wife's new MacBook Pro - no problems.

Dennis833 Loc: Australia

Be very careful upgrading your old Mac to the latest operating systems. Always check the hardware requirements of your model. My Mac pro late 2009 will not run High Sierra. I could upgrade from mavericks to el capitan but i'm running a very stable machine on all of the software that I want to use.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201475

The link shows which Mac models can run it. My old Mini from Mid-2010 is at the bottom of the pile, and it runs High Sierra just fine.

truetexan

just upgraded yesterday, no issues...

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

Hi Bill,

Do you know if there is a website that shows compatibility of past versions of MS Office for Mac and High Sierra? I currently have Office 2008 and have no desire to upgrade.

Stevewayne23 Loc: Sacramento, CA

Aperture still works fine; maybe better than with older versions . . .

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I think 10.6.8 was the last OS I used with that. I think Office 2011 ran fine until 10.13. I still have it on one startup drive running 10.10.5.

NoSocks Loc: quonochontaug, rhode island

No issues. All AOK.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

I am running 10.12.6 and MS Office 2011 works fine. I think this is the latest OS before High Sierra.

MrGNY Loc: New York

Updated to High Sierra the other night and everything runs fine with Adobe Creative Cloud.