Microsoft today released Office for Mac 2011 14.0.2 Update, bringing several stability improvements to the latest version of the company's flagship productivity suite. According to a support document, the update includes the following improvements:
Improvements for all Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 applications
- Reliability is improved when you open Office for Mac documents by using third-party applications.
This update fixes an issue that causes Office for Mac documents not to open by using certain third-party applications.
- Office for Mac Updater request users to close Microsoft AutoUpdate during the update process.
This update fixes an issue that causes Office for Mac updater to request users to close AutoUpdate when the Office updater is running. When the users close AutoUpdate, the updater also stops the Office update process.
Improvements for Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011
- Stability is improved.
This update fixes an issue that causes Outlook to crash or close unexpectedly sometimes when you import a .pst file that contains categories. Specifically, categories that have no category names assigned to them.
Microsoft released Office for Mac 2011 in late October and issued the 14.0.1 update a few weeks later.