Question about Outlook Express

My company has made the decision to use Apple laptops so I'm wondering if anyone has had any meaningful conversations with Microsoft on the feature gaps for business users?  Even something as basic as sync'ing contacts between Outlook and my iPhone is a monumental task. As a business user I feel abandoned by Microsoft now that I'm using a Mac.  MS is the largest software company in the world and should have the resources to provide a similar experience with ALL of the same features on a Mac unless there is a conscience effort not to do so.  I've been a happy user of MS Office since 1999 but have lost a great deal of respect over the last month due to the gaps between the PC and Apple platforms. Anyone that can offer me some light at the end of the tunnel would be helpful. 

Overview:

• Macbook Air
• MS Office 2011
• O365 User
• iPhone 4S

Challenges (a few of the bigger one):

• Contacts require a cut & Paste to add from an email
• Contacts won't sync with my phone
• Contacts don't import properly from .csv
• I can't insert a vCard into an existing email
• When cutting/pasting from Excel/Word to an email, the formatting changes
• I can't recall or modify a sent email
• I can't delay an email to be sent or set it to be sent at a future time
• Email folders won't allow me to write the entire name in the folder when it's created.

In case you're wondering why I don't just go back to a PC.....the answer is because the Mac did a good job in providing a nice producT..  Now I'd like Microsoft to to do the same.

I have just entered in a load of tasks and categorized them with various categories such as @office, and @phone, and 1:1Dad, and 1:2 Wife, and things like that.  I did this so that they would appear in a certain desired order when sorted by Category, but instead the categories are listed together, but the categories follow no particular order that I can decipher.  When I pull up the edit categories option they appear in the right order, but in the actual task list pane, they appear out of order.  Does anyone have a solution to fixing this?

It kinda drives me nuts because I'm trying to get them into a certain order.  

please help

When you export mail on Outlook 2011 does is grab the exchange folders and the folders on My Computer?  

Does it export sub folders on My Computer as well?

Hello there,

I've offered to set up an e-mail system for a local community group. I’m not a tech expert, but do have some pretty good basic understanding of these things so I thought what they wanted would be pretty easy to do. It’s actually proving quite tricky though. 

Any help on how I could achieve the following would therefore be really appreciated.

• They need an address book that syncs between a number of computers (both PCs and Macs).
• There’ll be one or two administrators who add contacts ideally using a program on their desktop, rather than something online - it's always slightly cumbersome when you're waiting 
  for the page to load. I thought Outlook would be ideal.
• Contacts will be grouped into lists such as Staff, Customers, or Board. When adding a new contact, if would be great if there was a field (or some other prompt) that reminded people to categorise / add people to the appropriate group. 
• These groups / categories / lists need to sync across all address books - i.e. when anyone writes an e-mail to 'Staff' everyone in the latest version of the group will receive the mail.

I thought this would be simple to do, but am finding it quite a thing to achieve.

I thought Outlook categories would be the solution – especially because the Category tick boxes are perfect when adding a new contact. However, as they don’t sync with Outlook.com (as I understand it), it’s apparently not possible to sync groups/lists across multiple computers (whilst maintaining functionality that allows new people to be added). Or am I missing something?

To be honest, it doesn't have to be Outlook that we use, but I like using it, is cross-platform and the tick box for categories is perfect; it seems the most likely contender to be able to achieve what we want.

As I say, this feels like it should be really simple, but I'm really struggling - any help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,

tim

Hi everyone,

I have 2 google apps email accounts that have been migrated into one account.  So essentially I have one set of logins.  When using via webmail I can still send from both accounts.  But I hate webmail.

Is there a way to still do this in Outlook for Mac?

Thanks,

Lisa

Our work website and email is set up through Go Daddy.  I have several computers set up using Office for Mac 2011 / Outlook and although it is sometimes slow - emails still work.  I have a new macbook air and was setting Outlook up the same way as the others, and I cannot get the outgoing server to send emails.

The error message is:  An operation on the server timed out.  The server may be down, overloaded, or there may be too much net traffic.  Error code 3259.

I am using SSL and port 465.  I have tried changing the port to other options, and nothing works.

The odd part is, the outgoing server works and emails are able to send using Apple Mail.  This leads me to think it is an Outlook issue.   I would like this computer to be able to use Outlook.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!