I have been having the same problem. Outlook 2011 sounds disappear every time my computer goes to sleep. Quitting and restarting Outlook does not solve the problem, but If I do a shut-dwon and/or restart the sounds come back again, until the computer goes to sleep again and the cycle restarts. It is very annoying to restart the computer in order to get the sound back. This has been a persistent problem now for many months.
I'm getting this message when I try and send an email: "Your message wasn't sent because there's a daily message limit. But don't worry, we saved it in your Drafts folder. To increase the limit, verify your account." Then when I click on the "verify your account" link and enter my mobile number, it keeps coming up with a message saying something like we can't do this at the moment, and so the cycle continues, on and on, and I still can't send the email! Can anyone suggest what I can do to sort this out? Thanks. 
Windows Live Mail recently started handing up in the mail download cycle, I.e. the download status box displays it is receiving a continuous stream of emails that do not exist. The download count keeps growing until I stop it. Any ideas what's wrong?
I'm having a problem with my outlook refreshing and the cursor locking up while typing emails.I start typing and about 8 or 9 words into a sentence the curser stops moving and the pinwheel shows up on the screen, about 4 seconds later i can resume typing and then the cycle starts over again. i don't think this started happening until I upgraded to mountain lion.  I am running OX Mountain Lion 10.8 on a macbook pro that is 1 year old and have installed the 14.2.3 update for Office for Mac. I've checked my disc permissions and repaired. This is only happening on Outlook email.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks David

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when i finish typing my email i hit send.it says input special characters.i type in the special characters.it says ok and go back and send my email.i only see 1 way to go back and that is click on the top left arrow.then it says what i type as special characters is wrong.so iget in a vicious cycle.so how do i go back and send my email without getting this error? Also,why do i have to get this stupid message to type in special characters every time i want to send an email?
After my Time Machine restore, I had to re-enter my license number - all well and good - but I keep getting those Office Reminders going off like fireworks. I remembered that the problem could be solved by rebuilding my Main Identity. So I held down the option key while starting Outlook.

Now I'm locked in a vicious cycle of trying to rebuild the database. I get a message that all MS apps need to be closed (which I've already done - including quitting the MS daemon) and when I click OK, I get another screen telling me that some applications could not be closed. I click again and get back to the all apps must be closed dialog box again. And if I just quit the process and open Outlook again, the reminders just keep cycling (although I kill that process, too).

What to do?

Thanks,

Clinton