• 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 suggested names are presented when saving to SkyDrive.
• Outlook – Gmail folders beginning with a space character aren’t accepted.
• Outlook – Gmail XLIST command for Special User Mailboxes is now deprecated.
• Outlook – Messages addressed to local contact groups won’t send.
• Outlook – Searches continue running in the background after the user cancels the search.
• Outlook – Sent messages appear in the Junk E-mail folder instead of the Sent Items folder when the sending account is listed in the Blocked Senders list.
• Outlook – Wrong senders are blocked for certain kinds of accounts.
• Outlook – Won’t prompt for credentials when using Kerberos and the user’s token had expired.
• PowerPoint – Updates when co-authoring between PowerPoint Web App and PowerPoint for Mac result in conflicts.
• PowerPoint – Remote devices lose control during a slide show.
• PowerPont – Content from a PowerPoint 2013 file is lost when saving in PowerPoint 2011.

Users should quit all Office applications and web browsers prior to updating. This update is also available via the Microsoft AutoUpdate application. Select Check for Updates from the Help menu. It is also available for immediate download.

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.

Additional fixes address:

• An Outlook issue where contacts created in x500 format did not work. This would primarily apply to Outlook users in a directory services environment such as Exchange and Active Directory.
• An Outlook issue where Gmail Bcc recipients were not retained when a message was saved as a draft.
• An Outlook issue where word contractions with a single quote would be flagged as misspelled.
• An Outlook issue where users could not open other users’ Exchange shared folders in a Kerberos environment.
• In Outlook, adds a UTC+0 without DST offset to the list of available time zones when creating a calendar event.
• An Office 365 issue where the Offline Address Book (OAB) was not updated correctly.
• A VBA macro issue with Save As to align with the Windows VBA behavior.
• A Word crash when scrolling with Track Changes enabled in a large document.
• A PowerPoint issue that would leave screen artifacts after using a transition on Mountain Lion systems running NVIDIA cards.

Users should quit all Office applications and web browsers prior to updating. This update is also available via the Microsoft AutoUpdate application. Select Check for Updates from the Help menu. It is also available for immediate download.

Additional improvements:

• Fixes an issue where a Mac user cannot participate in screen sharing and receives the error message Encryption policy does not match because an administrator has set a policy to enforce desktop and application sharing encryption. 
• Fixes an issue where 16:9 aspect ratio for video is distorted to a 4:3 aspect ratio.
• Fixes an issue where Mac users in or west of the Pacific time zone receive the error message Lync was unable to sign in. Please verify your logon credentials and try again when attempting to use Lync Online.

Download the update from Microsoft’s site or select Help menu –> Check for Updates in any Office for Mac 2011 application. Administrators can capture the full download before running the installer by copying the package file from ~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems.

Lync for Mac is not available to the general public. It is available to Microsoft volume license and Office 365 customers.

Messenger for Mac 8.0.2, released January 31, is presumably the final update for the software. Both Microsoft AutoUpdate and the installer for the 8.0.2 update clearly indicate the Messenger service is discontinuing and encourage current users to move to Skype.

Their Read Me screen says:

“We are retiring the existing Messenger service globally (except for mainland China where Messenger will continue to be available) and bringing the great features of Messenger and Skype together. Update to Skype and sign in using a Microsoft account (same as your Messenger ID) and all your Messenger contacts will be at your fingertips. You’ll be able to instant message and video chat with them just like before, and also discover new ways of staying in touch with Skype on your mobile and tablet.”

Customers with separate Windows Live Messenger, Facebook and Skype accounts can opt to merge their Skype accounts into their Microsoft accounts when launching Skype for the first time.

1. Launch Skype.
2. Log in using using a Windows Live ID.
3. When prompted, click the I have a Skype account button.
   
4. Enter the Skype account’s name and password. Click the Sign in button.
   
5. Verify the two accounts are correct and click the Continue button. Note that signing into Skype using Microsoft credentials will sign out instances of Messenger logged in elsewhere.
   

Merging one account with another doesn’t prevent the user from using either account, however, he can only merge each account once. Logging in to either account will show the same contacts list.

Subsequent launches of Skype will display a Windows Live style login.

However, to continue using a Skype account the user just simply clicks the Sign in with a different account link at the bottom of the login window.

Optionally, Facebook users can click the Facebook link on the same page to log in with their accounts. They’ll have the option to merge their Skype accounts into Facebook as well.

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 in Slide Sorter view in PowerPoint for Mac Fixes a display issue that involves collapsed sections in Slide Sorter view.
• Hash tags (#) in hyperlinks aren’t saved correctly in PowerPoint for Mac Fixes an issue in which hyperlinks that contain hash tags (#) aren’t saved correctly.
• Crash occurs when you use Paste Special with a partial table in PowerPoint for Mac Fixes an issue that causes PowerPoint to crash when you use the Paste Special option to copy and paste part of a table.
• RTF text that’s saved in PowerPoint for Windows can’t be pasted into PowerPoint for Mac Fixes an issue in which RTF text that’s saved in PowerPoint for Windows can’t be copied and pasted into PowerPoint for Mac.

Recommended:

Before updating 1) backup the Microsoft Office 2011 folder in Applications and 2) backup your Main Identity folder in Outlook

1)  Create a backup of the Microsoft Office 2011 folder in Applications using a clone or Time Machine backup. You can also zip the folder in Applications by Control-Click (Right-click) on the folder and selecting “Compress” to zip. This way if you experience any problems from the update you can simply replace the folder with the backup.

2)  There are no database upgrade changes in this update, but again, backup your Identity for good measure in case of odd issues you might experience. Your Identity is located in Documents.

~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/your identity

You can check modification date on the database file in your Identity to see which Identity is the one most recently modified.

After updating RESTART!  You don’t want to get “there is nothing to update” and have to re-install Office again.

Update:

Download SP3 14.3.0 directly  or use Microsoft AutoUpdater under Help in the Menu bar. All browsers must be quit as well as syncservices and the Microsoft Database daemon. Use the Activity Monitor to quit or use the easy way:

EASY WAY

1. Launch the Microsoft AutoUpdater under Help and select “Keep in Dock”.
2. Log out under the Apple in the menubar. When you Log in, hold down the Shift key. This disables all login items including the hidden ones.
3. Select the MAU in the Dock and download the suggested updaters.
4. Restart RECOMMENDED
5. Open your Office applications under About Word, About Outlook etc you should see the version number 14.3.0.
   
   

This technique for de-corrupting a Microsoft Word document is known as “Doing a ‘Maggie”, after Margaret Secara from the TECHWR-L mailing list, who first publicized the technique.

MVP John McGhie suggests the following:

• Get all the tracked changes and comments out of the document, save and close,.
• Use Compare Documents at the end if you want markup.
• If the document has corrupted, removing tracked changes won’t fix it. Do a “Maggie”, which will resolve all the tracked changes. For more info on tracked changes, see Avoid Microsoft Word document corruption with a few simple techniques.

The Maggie:

1. Create a new blank document in .docx format
2. Carefully select all of the text in the bad document EXCEPT the last
paragraph mark
3. Copy it.
4. Paste in the new document.
5. Save under a new file name and close all, then re-open.

For help with your Microsoft Word issues, visit Microsoft Answers – Office for Mac Word Forum. and  The Word MVP Site.