Microsoft releases Office for Mac 2011 14.3.4 Update

Microsoft has released the  Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.3.4 Update. (113 MB) Installation requires first installing the 14.1.0 (SP1) update. The update integrates the Office for Mac 2011 suite with Office 365 subscription services and addresses the following issues:

Office – Calibri Light font isn’t installed resulting in poor display when viewing documents from Office for Windows users. Office – Activation screen won’t appear for subscription users when launching multiple Office for Mac applications. Office – Incorrect . . .

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Microsoft releases Office for Mac 2011 14.3.2 Update

Microsoft has released the  Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.3.2 Update. (113 MB) Installation requires first installing the 14.3.1 update. According to the update’s description it addresses one security issue and includes multiple bug fixes.

The update addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook for Mac that could allow Internet-based images to be downloaded without the customer’s consent. This would allow the site to know the message has been received and viewed.

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Microsoft releases Office 2008 for Mac 12.3.6 Update

Microsoft has released the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.3.6 Update. (210 MB) This one update includes all prior updates but still requires the 12.3.5 update be applied first.

Information on Microsoft’s site is confusing. This update supposedly addresses a single issue, which is a vulnerability in Outlook 2008 for Mac, which doesn’t exist. Customers should presume this instead means Entourage 2008 for Mac. The vulnerability could allow for Internet-based images to download without the customer’s consent, . . .

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Microsoft releases Office for Mac 2011 14.3.1 Update

Microsoft has released the  Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.3.1 Update. (105.6 MB) Although this update includes prior updates since 14.1.0, installation issues require first installing the 14.2.3 update on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) systems due to GateKeeper.

According to the update’s description it addresses an issue where Office for Mac applications may report an issue with licensing although the applications continue to work. Multiple users report issues with the Office365Service process, which . . .

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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.3.0 SP3 updater available

Microsoft released 14.3.0 SP3  on Tuesday, January 29, 2013. This is a free updater for Office for Mac 2011 users. This updater requires Office for Mac 2011 14.2.3 or later to be installed.

Improvements listed:

Meeting invitation times are displayed inaccurately in Outlook for Mac Fixes an issue that causes meeting invitation times from non-Exchange calendar servers to be off by one hour during certain times of the year. Slides in collapsed sections cover other slides . . .

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Office for Mac 2008 support ends April 2013

Effective April 9, Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 will be end-of-lifed according to Microsoft’s published lifecycle policy. This is in accordance with its history of supporting each version of Office for Mac for five or more years.

Microsoft stopped adding features to Office 2008 after its 12.2.9 update, which included support for SkyDrive and enhancements for SharePoint users. In the past two years it has released half a dozen updates focussed solely on security issues and bug fixes.

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Office for Mac 2011: Remove Office

The ”Remove Office” app is no longer included in Office for Mac 2011.  So what do you do when you need to remove Office? You have three options:

SIMPLE REMOVE Often simply dragging the Microsoft Office folder to the trash then restoring from Time Machine to revert to a previous version is all that is needed.

USE SCRIPT TO REMOVE This option is quick and painless. This script will remove all files for Microsoft Office 2011.This option does not remove . . .

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Office for Mac: Install, Activate and Register

It’s all in the numbers. What you need to know to activate, de-activate, register, reset, replace, install, update and upgrade past and current versions of Office for Mac.

Activate De-Activate Install Register Replace Reset Upgrade-Update

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Office 2011 applications fail to work with volumes named ‘home’

Office for Mac 2011 users may experience a problem when attempting to access documents on file shares or local hard drives simply named “home” (all lower case). This issue affects Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Outlook for Mac, which only supports locally stored identities, is not affected.

If Office users attempt to work with any connected volume such as a server file share, internal hard drive or external hard drive named “home”, they may receive error . . .

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Buy Office for Mac 2011 now, download the next version of Office free

Note: I’ll update this after it’s totally clear what this offer promises. I’m not sure if you get the next version of Office for Mac or  Office 365 (one year subscription) free. I’m not even sure everyone at Microsoft is on the same page about the offer details. (Nov 1, 2012)

Please read all the details and save all receipts. We often have users that don’t meet requirements and then find the offer is no longer . . .

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