Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

This update fixes critical issues in Office 2011, including issues that might cause Office 2011 applications to stop responding or quit unexpectedly. For more information about this update, please visit the Microsoft Web site.

Applies to: Office 2011, Office 2011 Home and Business Edition, Word 2011, Excel 2011, PowerPoint 2011, Outlook 2011, Communicator 2011, Office for Mac Standard 2011 Edition, Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Student 2011, and Microsoft Office for Mac Academic 2011

Known issues for installation of Office 2011

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to December 2015.

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• Operating System Versions: Mac OS X version 10.5.8 or a later version of Mac OS
  
  Note  To verify that your computer meets these minimum requirements, on the Apple menu, click About This Mac.

Microsoft AutoUpdate continues to provide you with verified secure updates to your machine, and is still the easiest way to get updates to your machine. With the recent change in the Apple operating system 10.8, Microsoft's older updaters do not provide the security handshake needed with Apple's additional security measures.  We suggest using an earlier operating system to download this updater if you choose not to use Microsoft AutoUpdate.

1. Print this page if you want to use it as a reference when you are offline.
2. Quit any applications that are running, including all Office applications, Microsoft Messenger, and Office Notifications, because they might interfere with the installation.
3. Make sure that your computer meets the minimum system requirements.
4. Click Download, or click the link for the language version that you want.
5. Follow the instructions on the screen to save the file to your hard disk. If you are using Safari, the downloaded file is saved to the desktop unless you specified a different location in the Preferences dialog box of Safari. To check your preferences, on the Safari menu, click Preferences, and then click General.
6. Double-click the file that you downloaded in step 5 to place the Office for Mac 2011 14.0.1 Update volume on your desktop, and then double-click the Office for Mac 14.0.1 Update volume to open it. This step might have been performed for you.
7. In the Office for Mac 2011 14.0.1 Update volume window, double-click the Office for Mac 2011 14.0.1 Update application to start the update process, and then follow the instructions on the screen.
8. If the installation finishes successfully, you can remove the update installer from your hard disk. To remove the update installer, first drag the Office for Mac 2011 14.0.1 Update volume to the Trash, and then drag the file that you downloaded to the Trash.

  This update is also available from Microsoft AutoUpdate, an application that can automatically keep your Microsoft software up to date. To use AutoUpdate, open an Office application, and then on the Help menu, click Check for Updates.

To remove this update

This update does not include an uninstall feature. To restore your application to its original state, delete it from your hard disk, reinstall it from your original installation disk, and then install the updates that you want.