Nov 17, 2017 As Microsoft Project app is not available in Mac, we cannot open a project file in mac even if we have the license. Thanks for your understanding. RationalPlan Viewer is also an MS Project viewer as well with the aim to provide project stakeholders a chance to view the project files for free. The RationalPlan Viewer, a near 10 MB download is a desktop application which works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. OpenProj is a free and open source project management solution meant to be a replacement of Microsoft Project and other commercial project solutions. OpenProj is ideal for desktop project management and is available on Mac and it even opens existing Microsoft Project or Primavera files.

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Office 365 ProPlus is being renamed to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. For more information about this change, read this blog post.

Symptoms

If you perform one of the following procedures in one of the Microsoft Office programs that are listed at the end of this article, the program may stop responding (hang) for a long time:

You click the Save in list in the Save As dialog box.
You click the Look in list in the Open dialog box.

If you click Cancel or try to close the dialog box, the program still does not respond.

Cause

This problem may occur if any one of the following conditions is true:

When the computer is connected to one or more mapped network shares that are nonexistent or that are currently offline.
When one or more mapped drives are persistent, and the drive is in a domain that is not trusted.
When the mapped drive is located on a slow or a down-level computer. A down-level computer is when the operating system of the computer has an earlier version of Microsoft Windows than the computer that you are using).
When a mapped drive is connected across a Wide Area Network (WAN).
When a drive is an inaccessible removable drive.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, you must disconnect all network drives that are have any one of the conditions that are stated in the 'Cause' section. To do this, follow these steps.

Note Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see the product documentation to complete these steps.

Right-click My Computer, and then click Disconnect Network Drive.
In the Disconnect Network Drive dialog box, click the letter of the drive that you want to disconnect, and then click OK.
Repeat steps 1 and 2 until all offline network drives are disconnected. If you are not sure about a particular drive, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type the following, and then press ENTERcomputer nameshare name
  Where computer name is the name of the server that is sharing the resource, and share name is the name of the shared resource that you want to use.
  If the resource is not available, you receive an error message that is similar to the following:
  The network name cannot be found.

Alternatively, you can try to view the contents of the drive in the Windows Explorer.

Workaround

To work around this behavior, use one of the following methods.

Method 1: Do not use persistent connections

When you connect a mapped drive, click to clear the Reconnect at logon check box. By clearing this check box, the mapped drive will not be connected the next time that you log on to the computer. See the 'More Information' section for more information about how to map a network drive.

Method 2: Use a user logon script

If you can, use a logon script to connect a user to the appropriate servers every time that the user logs on. Make sure that the script maps the drive in a non persistent state. If the drive is not available as the logon script runs, the drive is not mapped. This behavior prevents the issue.

Method 3: Use server mirroring

If the connection is over a Wide Area Network (WAN), consider implementing server mirroring. Server mirroring duplicates a distant server locally. Then, map your drive to the local, duplicate server. Doing this can reduce the wait time by connecting to a local server.

Method 4: Use a shortcut to the network location

Use a shortcut on the Microsoft Windows desktop or in My Network Places to connect to the network location that you want.

More Information

Each location in a list is checked to make sure that it is available and that you have access permissions when you perform both the following procedures in Microsoft Office programs:

You try to open or to save a file.
You access the Look in or the Save In list.

If any mapped drive is in a state that is documented in the 'Cause' section, it takes some time for the condition to be detected and resolved by the Office program. To avoid this behavior, you should disconnect that mapped drive. You can look for the availability of the drive at any time in Windows Explorer. If the drive is available, map the network drive again later.

To map a drive to a resource that is online again, follow these steps:

Right-click My Computer, and then click Map Network Drive.
In the Drive box, click the drive letter that you want to use for the network drive.
In the Folder box, type the following computer nameshare name
Where computer name is the name of the server that is sharing the resource, and share name is the name of the shared resource that you want to use.
To make the mapped drive non persistent, click to clear the Reconnect at logon check box.
Click Finish.

Microsoft powerpoint 2016 not opening on mac. If you are trying to connect to resources on other networks, contact the network administrator. Network drives that no longer exist, that are no longer shared, or inaccessible removable drives should be permanently disconnected to avoid affecting the performance of Office products.

A colleague recently asked for assistance with opening a particular document, which was created using Microsoft Works. Microsoft Works had a long run as a lower-cost alternative to Microsoft’s Office for Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS, and was available in one version or another for about twenty years between 1988 and 2008. As a consequence, a number of older PCs still have it installed and Mac users will occasionally receive Works documents. Unfortunately, Microsoft Works was not ported to the Mac so it can be difficult to open these files.

After talking with my colleague and researching this issue, I found two ways (one is free, the other is using a paid application) to open Microsoft Works files. For more details, see below the jump.

The non-free way is to use Works Document Viewer for Mac. This is an application which allows Works documents to be opened for viewing and also converted to another format. It’s available on the Mac App Store via the link below:

The free way leverages the Zamzar.com file conversion site. See below for the procedure to use:

1. Change the document’s file extension from .wps to .doc.

Moving forward, as new major versions of macOS are made generally available, Microsoft will drop support for the oldest version and support the newest and previous two versions of macOS. For example, if you’re on macOS 10.13, but later you don’t update your macOS to a supported version when macOS 10.13 is no longer supported, you won’t receive any updates of any kind.As new major versions of macOS are released and older versions become unsupported, we highly recommend you continue to update your macOS to a supported version in order to receive such as security updates as well as new features (if you’re an Office 365 for Mac subscriber).

Opening Microsoft Project Files On Mac