Microsoft has released Office for Mac 2011 14.0.1 Update which “contains improvements to security, stability, compatibility, and performance. It includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.”
The Office for Mac 2011 14.0.1 Update includes the following improvements.
All Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 applications
• Office for Mac includes forms-based authentication: This update includes forms-based authentication in Office for Mac for connecting to Microsoft Office SharePoint Servers. Forms-based authentication transmits user credentials through HTML forms that users complete. A token that contains the user credentials for the server is stored as a cookie in Office for Mac. The cookie can also be stored in the system Keychain and Safari’s cookie store if the user selects Remember Password or a similar option in the HTML form.
• Images that are copied from an Office for Mac application back to ChemDraw can be edited: This update fixes an issue that causes Office for Mac applications to lock images after they are copied back from an Office application to ChemDraw, a molecule editor.
Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011
• Stability is improved: This update fixes an issue that causes Excel to crash or close unexpectedly sometimes when a macro is enabled.
• Excel-calculated cells are updated when revisions are made to related data: This update fixes an issue that sometimes causes Excel-calculated cells not to update automatically after a change is made to related data until the pointer is positioned on the calculated cell.
• Reliability is improved when the FORMAT macro command is used: This update fixes an issue that causes Excel to produce incorrect results when the FORMAT macro command is used.
Microsoft Word for Mac 2011
• Stability is improved when you build equations: This update fixes an issue that causes Word to crash or close unexpectedly sometimes when you build an equation. The issue specifically occurs when the user clicks the Convert selection to professional or Convert selection to linear buttons on the Equation Tools tab to format the equation into a one-dimensional form for easy editing or a two-dimensional form for professional display.
Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2011
• Stability is improved during slide shows: This update fixes issues that cause PowerPoint to crash or close unexpectedly sometimes during a slide show.
• Compatibility with PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2010 is improved: This update fixes issues that cause numbered lists in PowerPoint 2007 and in PowerPoint 2010 not to be displayed correctly when the presentation is viewed in PowerPoint for Mac 2011.
Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011
• Reliability is improved when you delete messages from multiple IMAP accounts: This update fixes an issue that causes Outlook to delete only one message even after you select and delete multiple messages from different IMAP accounts in the unified inbox.
• Sync Services stops when you install a new update: This update fixes an issue that forces you to exit the Sync Services Agent manually, if it is enabled, before you install a new update.
• Email passwords are retained in the keychain after new accounts are imported into Outlook: This update fixes an issue that causes Outlook to delete passwords from the keychain when new email accounts are imported into Outlook.
• Mailing list records are retained after a database rebuild: This update fixes an issue that causes Outlook to delete all mailing list rules after a database rebuild.
• Reliability improved when importing Office 2008 identities into Office 2011: This update fixes an issue that causes Outlook to end the import process when Outlook imports identities that have a category called Untitled.
More info and download link here.
Oh, is that all? I thought it was serious.
Is mobile me down
@John
I couldn’t get in to MobileMe either. Had to reset my password a few times. No idea why. Seems to be ok now.
Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic Microsoft.
@jerkette
Thanks, I am still having problems ,but it seems to work for a second then stop .also can’t acess my gallery
@john, just checked and .me and gallery are working fine here.
I have a confession. I was in the M$ store across the hall from the Apple Store at Mall of America (maybe that’s why the stock was down today.) It was horrible, but Kinect is Wii with out the device you throw through the television.
Microsoft. Our dogsh*t. Your yard.
“It was horrible, but Kinect is Wii with out the device you throw through the television.”
Exactly. It came out like 5 years ago. A handful of people smashed their TV’s but for the vast majority of people, what you just described came out 5 years ago. That’s why the games are so kiddy. At least the graphics on the baby lion you molest are in HD?
Why are Mac users in this day and age putting up with the security and bug prone P.O.S. that is Office?
Oh, yea, one needs it for work and collaborating on files or else they would be using iWork or OpenOffice (Now LibreOffice) and sending PDF’s to each other like they should be doing.
If Adobe pulls Creative Suite from Mac’s, all those files made by CS and Photoshop will still need to be edited, revised etc., so all those Mac users will become Windows 7 users.
Microsoft too could pull the same move with Office if they team up like what’s been being discussed.
Then Apple can go off like they want to, making iFad devices instead of hardware and software people actually use to get work done.
Sounds like a plan.
@ KillJoy Deluxe,
You’ve been astroturfing long enough to know that real Mac users will never fall for this bullshit.
Word’s fails to maximize the program window correctly.
If you have a small screen maximizing a window can give you more usable space. Therefore, having the ability to fully maximize a window improves usability.
My clients and I are just asking that Word maximize correctly just like Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
This problem carries over from 2008. In 2008 Word, Excel, PowerPoint had this problem. Now in 2011 Word continues to have this almost three year old problem and you cannot get Word to remember the Maximized window position. Word 2011 still leaves a small gap of about 1mm on the left side of the Word window and about a 1mm gap between the top of the Word window and the OS X menu
Microsoft has known about this problem for at least a year. My clients and I have been reporting this problem in Word for over a year now. I purchased Office 2011 because an MS employee mentioned in Ars Technica that he thought this problem had been resolved. He was correct, the problem has been resolved in Excel and PowerPoint but not Word. I would like this problem and others fixed in the worst way. I am tired of having to move the Word window up and to the left and then expand the window to the right and downward each time I fire up Word just to have a maximized screen.
My clients and I are not the only ones who care about this issue:
Christian, also posted the following on Mactopia:
“I was a bit of annoyed when I realized that the Position of a new Word document still has a small gap to the left screen edge and to the top OSX menu as well – same as in Word 2008! Come on – this bug is fixed in Excel 2011 and Powerpoint 2011 – why not Word as well?”
YouTube:
“I know that always bugged me! Since I have a 13inch screen I always wanted to get it fully maximized on start up!”
Ars Technica:
“When I open a window, its default position is separated from the toolbars by a few pixels. If I click the green Zoom button, the right edge of the windows goes _almost_ to the right edge of the screen, but not quite. It’s as if someone at Microsoft is deliberately flouting Fitt’s Law:
In this position, “missing” a toolbar click or title bar drag by a few pixels can end of bringing a different application to the fore. Ditto missing the right scrollbar. I can’t imagine a use case where a user would want to click into the tiny little crevice between a document and its toolbar to bring out the window hiding behind it. I also can’t imagine a use case where the user mouses all the way over to the right side of the screen with the intention of _just_ missing the scrollbar. But I have experience many real-world cases where such behavior annoys this particular use immensely.”
(Note: For clarity purposes I substituted window for workbook)
Microsoft:” Our incompetence, your stupidity.”
And people complain about some modest bug fixes after a major Apple software release…
As far as I am concerned, any Microsoft code that causes Exchange/Outlook or Office products to “crash or close unexpectedly” is a feature, not a bug. Anything that leads people away from Microsoft software deserves praise.
LOL…
Word crash when you build an equation. ITS TOO HARD!
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You should go for the Office 2011 because most reviews tilt toward it than the mac!
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