Purchasing the Home Premium version of Office for Mac will not allow telephone support automatically to query any problems with the VBA interface. Support for Visual Basic for Applications macros has returned after having been dropped in Office 2008. Its interface is now more similar to Office 20 for Windows, with the addition of the ribbon. Microsoft Office 2011 includes more robust enterprise support and greater feature parity with the Windows edition. Office for Mac 2011 is no longer supported as of October 10, 2017.

Office 2011 was followed by Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac released on September 22, 2015, requiring a Mac with an 圆4 Intel processor and OS X Yosemite or later. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and is comparable to Office 2010 for Windows. Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is a version of the Microsoft Officeproductivity suite for Mac OS X.

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 applications shown on Mac OS X Snow Leopard