One thing I notice is that outlook 2011 changes the way the received date and time is formatted over time. "Last Week" messages show only the date, while this weeks show only the time.  Anyone know a way to force it to show both always?
I downloaded Office:Mac 2011 update 14.2.3; I had to turn off Microsoft database Daemon & Sync Services Agent from the Activity Monitor  or the update would not load. After I finished downloading the update - I restarted my  Mac. When I went to my Outlook program it was totally wiped out, no contacts, e-mails, mailboxes etc. Everything was gone. What happened. I have no idea what to do---- Please HELP ME.
Hope I can explain this right, but I'll give it a shot.

Just got my first Mac and have installed and setup Outlook 2011 to connect to my Exchange 2007 server.  When I open Outlook, it connects to the server and downloads my e-mails.  The problem is if I do something within Outlook (such as read messages, delete them, move them to another folder, etc), those changes never get reflected back on the server.  So if I were to look at my e-mail on my phone or my PC, all my e-mails appear as new and unread. 

Any ideas as to what is causing this?
Original Title: "can't open outlook for mac" 
Hi - can you please help.  Outlook was working fine until today - when I click on the icon i get a message "Microsoft cannot be opened because of a problem" 
  The key error message seems to be: 

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: @rpath/mbukernel.framework/Versions/14/mbukernel
  Referenced from: /Users/USER/Documents/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Outlook
  Reason: image not found

Am not  technically minded at all - grateful for any help in layman's terms - many thanks 

I bought Microsoft Office for Mac a few weeks ago, just got round to installing it today. Word, Powerpoint & Excel all seem to work fine, but Outlook won't activate with the same product code . . . Confused and frustrated!
I changed the passwords for my two POP webmail accounts and then tried to change them in Outlook.  I know I have to add the passwords to the main account screens and then, because my POP accounts require passwords, to the "More Options" sections.  Usually there is no problem when I do this, but for some reason the last time I tried to do it, I kept getting "authentication failed" messages (sorry, I forgot to copy down the error code).  I am wondering if it is because I pressed "Save" after filling in the initial account screen (before I filled in "More Options") rather than just pressing "OK" on the "More Options" screen after I finished entering all the new information.  Should I just press "OK" after filling in everything?  Should I choose "Save" as well after completing everything?

I was finally able to get the passwords to work, but just want to clarify what I was doing wrong initially.
Original Title: "Message. Category"
If I would like to unassign a category from a message, how can I do it?
I have to users both using Outlook for Mac  2011. An email comes in with an attachment which they are both CC'd. One of them gets the correct .pdf attachement, the other recieves a "winmail.dat" attachment. Now I know there are apps that will convert the winmail.dat, but i'm curious as to why if it is an issue with the windows user sending the email, why didn't they both have the same issue? Is there a setting that I can toggle to fix this?
I cannot make calendar entries/schedule meetings in Outlook. Double clicking a time slot results in no action and right clicking shows the possibilities greyed out. I have rebuilt the database but that didn't help. Perhaps a coincidence but I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion.
I understand, that the files with extension olk14MsgAttach are files used by Microsoft outlook to handle attachments.  I found them in Documents/Microsoft User Data/ Office 2011 Identities/Main Identity/...

Could something be wrong with those, since I have about 12Gb of those? 
I would like to get rid of them to save space on a crowded disk.

I also have a series of Office 2008 files hanging in a similar place, although I have upgraded to Office 2011 long time ago - can all these files (the directory calle Office 2008 Identities) just be discarded?

thanks