I was very excited to get MS Office specifically OUTLOOK for Mac, as i use MS office at my work place and i could use same functionality and ease of use at home, but i was very disappointed when i found out that following key features were missing from Ms OUTLOOK for Mac version and i wonder why Microsoft changed these key features which make MS office /outlook popular alternative to other similar softwares:-   

1. In MS WINDOWS Outlook before sending email we could configure automatic spell check by selecting (ALWAYS CHECK SPELLING BEFORE SENDING) which is missing in MAC version.  

2. After drafting email it is not possible to place in OUTBOX to send only when i SEND/RECEIVE as was possible in MS OFFICE for windows by unselecting (SEND immd when connected) so email was stored in Outbox whereas in MAC OUTLOOK email goes immd which means i cant review email again before sending.  

3. I have several email a/cs and in MS Office for windows i could send email from any of the a/c without it showing my default a/c where as in MAC office when i send email from a different pop a/c it shows in from the name of a/c and as well sent by default a/c name, which is not good as the purpose of sending email from different a/c (personal) a/c is defeated as it shows my work email also as sender.  

4. The signatures of different email a/cs don't appear by default when composing new email for a particular email a/c, which was possible in MS office and was a great feature.  

5. font and size of all incoming email cant be fixed so it is easy to view.  

6. Not possible re call send email.  

I would request Microsoft add above features in MS office or as additional plug in as these are features which MS office so great.  

Also in XLS the key board shortcuts for formating like wrap text and merge cells are missing.
I want to display the total number of items in a mail folder in Outlook for Mac 2011, not just the number of unread.

This is easy in Outlook 2010 for Windows, but I can't find the option on my Mac.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

- Charlie
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I have a customer that uses our hosted solution Server 2008 Exchange 2010 for email access and web dav file share. They have 8 Macbooks connected to the system and they all use Outlook 2011. One user has an issue where he's reading and deleting emails within Outlook on his mac but it isnt updating Exchange which in turn means his iphone isnt clearing down the read and deleted emails. If i log on to the owa mailbox i can see that the emails havent been read or deleted. We have this issue for one user with the newest MacBook. It first occurred 4 months ago and i ended up removing the account and resyncing the whole lot which took a few hours due to the size of the mailbox. I've right clicked the folders and told it to resync but it remains the same. Does anyone have any help they can provide please? thanks
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Outlook 2011
Hello,

I am having a hard time explaining this, but when I am trying to compose a message, I would type the first few letters of a person's name and outlook would autocomplete it. That's not happening anymore and I can't figure out why. 

Any help is appreciated. 

For example, I used to want to send an email to Joe Alstat and in the "To" field I would start typing "Joe" and it would autocomplete for me the rest of the name. 


Thanks for your help.
Hi, 

I have created in Outgoing rule as - 
'archive sent items', 
when a message is sent, 
date sent is greater than 180 days old, 
move message to 
"archive sent items (on my mac). 
Do not apply other rules is checked and the rule is enabled. 
However, the rule is not working and is not showing when I click on the rules button. It is an outgoing rule and only POP rules are showing. 
Please help with a solution. 

Mahimm Gupta.
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If I reply to a plain text message and then from the Draft menu select HTML Format it defaults to using Consolas 14pt font instead of the default Calibri 14pt which is set in the Outlook Preferences>Fonts>Default font for composing.

When I create a new message it defaults to using Calibri 14pt but not when I change plain text message into an HTML message. Anyone else experiencing this or know what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks
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