I accidentally touched return while one of my Office Reminders flagged documents was highlighted, and the flag and the document have disappeared. I presume it's been cancelled, and since I can't for the life of me think what it was I can only hope it wasn't too important.  This Office Reminders really is one of the most un-userfriendlty applications I've encountered in 25 years with a Mac.  You really would think Microsoft wouldd have made a better job of it by now, but it just seems to be getting worse, along with Outlook which has become an overcomplicated shambles while a lot of the basics are still dire.
I use Outlook on my MacBook Pro.  Suddenly I can't find any of my folders except the In Box. Not the Sent folder nor the Deleted Folder. Can anyone help me, please?
Original Title: Outlook for Mac 2011, OS 10.

I have been using, mail, contacts, tasks and notes successfully. All are synced with office 365.
Suddenly, why, i am not sure, my TASKS HAVE DISAPPEARED\.
They are somewhere - WHERE ??
I cant even enter new tasks
PLEASE HELP !!
I have Outlook 2011 for Mac, version 14.2.3.  My problem seems to have been created by myself. Plus, there are no answer out there specific to my problem.  I accidentally tried to send a 124mb attachement.  Well it never made it out of my outbox. It was turned into to a draft email and resided in my local computer in the Drafts mailbox.  Seeing in my Drafts Box I deleted the email.  Well, now my email is trying to push it to my Deleted Box on Exchange server. It fails of course.  And my email tries to send it about every minute or so. No as that service kicks in my email hangs or gets stuck.  I notice this in the progress window.  That deleted email is no where to found.  

How do I get rid of that email?
Just noticed when searching for a hyphenated or multiple last name contact such as John Doe-Smith or John Doe Smith it will only find the contact if I search for Doe. Is this by design or an issue? I tried deleting these files without resolution.

com.microsoft.Outlook.SyncServicesPreferences.plist
com.microsoft.SyncservicesAgent.plist

Also in the User's Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2011 folder delete OfficeSync Prefs
When an email thread builds up to multiple replies Outlook displays the old mail in the thread in a single character column. Its pretty hard to describe without posting a picture but to illustrate a text like "this" would be displayed as:

t
h
i
s

And the text "On November 6th 2012 Joe Bloggs wrote" displays as
O
n

N
o
v
e
m
b
e
r

6
[well you get the idea].

The same email viewed from Mail.app displays just fine. As does webmail.

What am I doing wrong?
Since fighting my way to get the 14.2.4 patch installed (renaming the Automator directory et. al.) I find that Outlook now crashes whenever I go to the Contacts area.  Not immediately but within 2 or 3 days of running the patch, Outlook becomes unreliable.

The fix is to keep re running the patch but this is time consuming and inconvenient.  Should I remove Office completely and start over?  I've had to do this before but it's a tedious process and I would rather not have to go through this but this instability is becoming particularly taxing.  

That the product is feature bereft compared to its Windows namesake is annoying but I do not expect any other actions from Microsoft.  Unfortunately the company has standardized on Office and I have no real alternative.

Thank you for any guidance any one can offer.
I already know you can connect Outlook to Icloud mail, that Outlook does read from the Mac addressbook, and you can see the Icloud Notes folder. No finger pointing please (it's an Apple issue...no it's a Microsoft issue, etc.) Thank you.
I am running the latest version of Outlook 2011 for Mac, and I cannot get the accept/decline buttons to show.  However, they will show in Apple Mail and in Outlook on Windows. Is there a fix for this particular issue?   What could be causing this to happen?
All of my incoming e-mails are coming in as daylight savings time and not standard time on Office for Mac 2011.