Question about Outlook Express

Is there a way to rearrange the placement of icons in Outlook's ribbon?

I may be just clumsy, but having "Delete" next to "Reply" is awkward.

I'd like to be able to access the addresses of those who've emailed me. I want to be able to work with them in various ways.

Like, I have a folder of folks who are in a group. I want to email all of them back. How?

Shouldn't there be easy ways to do these obvious tasks?

Thanks, JP

I'd like to be able to access the addresses of those who've emailed me. I want to be able to work with them in various ways.

Like, I have a folder of folks who are in a group. I want to email all of them back. How?

I've heard that I can work with the Contacts aspect -- so far I read that I can add people one at a time. Forget that! I want to add everyone in a Folder to a Contacts list with the group name.

I also read a bit that you can make a Rule that will do this. ...For some other version/type of Outlook. ??

Shouldn't there be easy ways to do these obvious tasks?

Thanks, JP

Okay, bear with me: I'm an end-user and not especially technically inclined.

I'm trying to make an Exchange account so I can sync my Outlook calendar, etc., to the online Outlook provided by my ISP (Sympatico/Bell Canada).

"Configure automatically" doesn't work and I've tried a number of naming conventions for the server, from "live.com" to pasting the actual URL of my online email page, to the URL of the online Outlook OWA calendar, to the one that works with my Nokia handheld, all to no avail.

I've spent an hour and a half with Bell's online support and their techie couldn't resolve the issue; their bottom line:

"It seems there is some issue with the settins.I suugest you to contact microsoft to resolve the issue."

The frustrating part is my Nokia N8 mobile's Exchange mailbox settings works perfectly with my online Outlook, including syncing its calendar with OWA's calendar. (See image for settings)

But these settings won't work from Outlook 2011 on my Mac.

Suggestions?

Hi,

This has been driving me crazy all day... any advice would be very gratefully received.

Background

My friend has got a reconditioned iMac with Mountain Lion fresh from Apple a few days ago. Her email is being hosted by Eapps. We can send and receive email with no problem using their web interface (Squirrel). She installed Office 2011 for Mac and everything was working fine, including all the Outlook functionality we tested (sending & receiving emails etc).

She then did some other setup (things like iCloud) and imported some contacts from an older version of Outlook. At some point during the day the following issue was noticed.

The Problem

Receiving email is working fine, but when we click "E-mail" (for a new message), "Reply", "Reply All" or "Forward" the button seems to do nothing. It is enabled and clicks, but nothing happens. If I run Outlook from the terminal like so:

> cd '/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/MacOS'
> ./'Microsoft Outlook'

and click any one of those buttons I get the following error:

2013-11-16 16:32:42.551 Microsoft Outlook[245:707] [<MessageComposeViewController 0x7ac86a00> addObserver:<NSAutounbinderObservance 0x7acc6260> forKeyPath:@"infobars" options:0 context:0x7acbf850] was sent to an object that is not KVC-compliant for the "|Ô" property.

followed by a long stack trace (I can send the whole thing if anyone wants to see it). Outlook continues to work in every other way, but this error reappears whenever one of those buttons is clicked. I get the same behaviour if I invoke the same methods from the menu instead of the buttons.

In safe mode, everything works perfectly.


What we've tried:

• Deleted and recreated the email account, checking all details are correct.
• Created a new MacOS user and recreated the email account from that logon.
• Recorded all running processes in safe mode, booted back into full mode and systematically killed all processes that were not running in safe mode. We were able to validate that all the processes shown in Activity Viewer in full mode were also shown in safe mode; the issue was still present.
• Validated fonts and cleared out Library/Caches (we found a page on the Apple site that suggested this).
• Did a live chat with Apple support, who kicked the ball over to Microsoft's side.
  

Reinstalling Safari seems to be a common piece of advice for problems like this, but this seems to be non-trivial to do in Mountain Lion and I rather doubt it has anything to do with it (nothing in Safari has changed since Outlook was working AFAIK).

Does anyone have any ideas on this?