Even your crankiest relatives at Thanksgiving can’t deny that an update is a good thing.
On Tuesday, Microsoft released its Microsoft Office 2011 14.2.0 (Service Pack 2) update. The update, a 112 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features:
– Document Connection support for SkyDrive documents is improved. This update enables users to view and access documents that are located in the root level of a SkyDrive folder.
– The drag-and-drop feature in Document Connection is added in Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). This update adds a drag-and-drop feature for files in Document Connection in Mac OS X 10.7.
– Upload functionality for SharePoint sites is improved. This update fixes an issue in which you receive the following error message when you upload a file to a SharePoint site: Upload Failed You must sign in to save your changes to the server.
– The Italian grammar checker is improved. This update fixes an issue in which the Italian grammar checker does not check a complete document.
– The German grammar checker is improved. This update fixes an issue in which the German grammar checker does not check a complete document when the document contains certain German sentences.
Improvements for Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011
– The database and the rebuild utility are improved. This update includes fixes that increase the robustness of the database and that improve the effectiveness of the rebuild utility. Outlook for Mac uses the Office database to store personal information, such as messages and contacts.
– This update fixes issues that cause database corruptions, instability, and crashes. This update also improves database transactions and the ability to recover from certain errors. If there is a problem within the database, Outlook for Mac starts the Database Utility, which tries to rebuild the database. After you install this update, the Database Utility recovers additional account information, such as shared resources and categories, and recovers from corruption scenarios. This update also adds the ability to cancel a database rebuild in Outlook for Mac.
– IMAP account sync that includes support for synchronizing with Gmail is improved. After you install this update, Outlook for Mac updates new messages in IMAP folders regularly. Additionally, Outlook for Mac users who use Gmail accounts can map folders, such as Drafts, Deleted Items, Sent Items, and Junk E-Mail, automatically.
– Outlook for Mac performance in key scenarios is improved. This update introduces several performance improvements in the following areas: General responsiveness during syncing Deleting multiple records Displaying email message content Sending email messages
– Exchange email message sync is improved. This update introduces a new sync model for Exchange. The new model enables Outlook for Mac to download an email message in parts. For example, Outlook for Mac first downloads and displays message text and then downloads large images and attachments.
– Downloading messages in parts reduces the load on the Exchange server and improves performance for the user.
– Support for calendar scheduling resources is improved. This update improves support for calendar scheduling resources and for free/busy comparison functionality in the Scheduling Assistant.
– Week numbers are added to the calendar display. This update adds a preference to enable the calendar to display week numbers.
– Distribution list expansion functionality is included. This update enables you to expand distribution lists into individual members when you add a distribution list in the To field or rest the mouse pointer on a distribution list.
Improvements for Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2011:
– Functionality for pasting special hyperlinks is included. This update introduces functionality that enables you to paste special hyperlinks in PowerPoint.
– The list of co-authors is improved. This update fixes an issue in which you cannot see the list of co-authors in a presentation.
– Full Screen View in Lion is supported. This update supports Full Screen View in PowerPoint. Additionally, when you close slide show mode in PowerPoint, edit mode opens.
Improvements for Microsoft Word for Mac 2011:
– Printing PDF faxes is improved. This update fixes an issue in which Word cannot send .pdf files as faxes.
– The user information display in templates is improved. This update fixes an issue in which a Word template does not display a user’s name, address, telephone number, fax number, and email address when you view the template after the template is saved in .doc format.
Microsoft Office 2011 14.2.0 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later to install and run and for the Service Pack 1 updater to have been previously installed.
If you’ve tried the new version and have any feedback to offer, please let us know in the comments.
10 replies on “Microsoft Office 2011 14.2.0 (Service Pack 2) released”
Horrible update! My excel won;t open and word is not woking as usual! HELP!
I installed the new software and now my Outlook for Mac will not open. I get this crazy message: “Your identity is older than this version of Outlook….” or some such lingo that makes no sense to a normal user.
I can see why many are moving way from MS Office. This is just poor software to let this happen.
It works well on my Mac, don’t seem to have any problems
My Mac keeps crashing after the update. I get the colorful spinning wheel of death and have to turn the computer off and restart. It seems to coincide with Outlook operations. I’m running OS 10.6.8.
I’m the first one who commented first yesterday. Spent 3+ hours on the phone (40 minutes of wait time, the rest with a tech) at Microsoft’s only Mac support center, and they got it working. (Joanne, the wonderful tech, said their phones were going crazy with problems from this upgrade.) But, same as the day before, this morning it quits before actually launching. I tried Cahilla’s unchecking the Microsoft Database Daemon box (as well as checking it and deleting it) and it still doesn’t open. I’m running with 10.6.8, because I don’t have Lion (was told it wouldn’t allow me to receive the mail coming through my website, so I didn’t upgrade). Guess I will be calling Microsoft again today and spending my day in the queue.
i installed no problem, now outlook won’t sync with exchange.. no new emails coming through to my mac, only to my iphone
Did you uncheck the Microsoft Database Daemon box in the user login items and restart your mac? No problems so far
I am having the same problem on a machine that is run 10.6.8. In my 10.7 machines, it worked fine
I installed it yesterday and today my Outlook quits in the middle of opening, so I can’t access it. (It worked fine yesterday.) Wish I knew how to reverse this. Getting desperate.
Got same problem. Please post here if you find a solution