Improvements for Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011 This update enables the authoring of Alt Text for objects, such as shapes, pictures, tables, charts, SmartArt, and movies in Office 2011 applications. This update fixes an issue that causes Office 2011 applications to close unexpectedly when you open or use Office 2011 applications. For more information, see the security bulletin that was listed earlier in this document. This update fixes vulnerabilities in Office 2011 that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. Improvements for all Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 applications The Office for Mac 2011 14.1 Update includes the following improvements. In addition, this update includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of a computer’s memory by using malicious code. The Office for Mac 2011 14.1 Update contains several changes that add functionality and improve security, stability, reliability, and performance. Today they have, and it appears as the 14.1.0 Update. Last week we told you that Microsoft was planning to release Service Pack 1 for Office for Mac 2011.