Outlook

Outlook 2011 constantly changes status to “Not Connected” and must be relaunched.

Here is the simple breakdown:
1. Boot Mac from a powered off state.
2. Launch Outlook
3. Observe that Outlook connects and syncs
4. Put Mac to sleep
5. Wake Mac
6. Observe that Outlook is in "Not Connected" state

7. Select menu option Tools > Send & Receive > Send & Receive All

8. Observe that Outlook is in "Not Connected" state

9. Close and relaunch Outlook

10. Observe that Outlook connects and syncs

This happens to everyone I know, not just at my company. Hundreds of man-hours are wasted on this. Lots of embarrassment comes in the form of, "I'm sorry I didn't get it, I didn't notice that Outlook needed to be restarted."

Outlook 2011 crash when hovering over contacts

28. April 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: crash problem, frustrating crash issue, Outlook

I've been experiencing a very frustrating crash issue with Outlook 2011 over the past few weeks. Essentially, whenever I'm creating or replying to an e-mail and I hover over a contact in the To: or cc: fields, Outlook will crash.

I've tried to re-build my database but the problem does not go away. Through some trial and error, I think I've narrowed the problem down to the contacts as I created a new identity with just my contacts and I get the same crash problem.

However, what I'm now stuck on is how to remove this issue from my main identity. I have attempted to simply delete my contacts but this has no impact.

Has anybody else experienced a similar issue and if so, did you manage to resolve the issue?

Thanks

Unable to Sync Outlook 2011 (Mac) with Outlook Online in an Office 365 (Personal) Acct

26. April 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: Office 365, Office 365 Personal, Outlook, Outlook calendar, Outlook Online

The Macbook previously had Office 2011 installed on it with all updates. I purchased Office 365 Personal so I would be able to install Office on the iPad and share my Outlook Calendar and Contact data. I was planning to install OWA onto the iPad and thereby keep my contacts and calendar in sync.

I successfully added the account information to Outlook 2011 as directed. However, a yellow dot remains beside the account in the Outlook preferences, indicating it is not connecting. Therefore the information in Outlook is not being uploaded. I have tried adjusting settings to no avail.

I did some research and found one article that suggested this wouldn't work with Outlook 2011 and another suggesting an additional purchase was needed. If so that was not made very clear. Can anyone assist?

Re-downloading Inbox in POP Email Account

25. April 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: Outlook, pop account, POP Email Account

For several months Outlook will periodically re-download all the emails in my POP email account Inbox. I like to keep copies of my emails on the server otherwise it wouldn't be a problem. I've seen other posts asking if it started when I upgraded to Mavericks but I can't remember exactly when it started although it may have been in early 2012 because I have duplicate emails in my Deleted folder from as far back as March 2012. It got so bad that I've stopped syncing Outlook with my POP account, added a gmail account to Outlook and setup the POP account to forward all my emails to the gmail account. Although the 14.4.1 patch claims to address this problem I've installed it and nothing changed. I also tried checking the "Prevent Appnap" setting as suggested elsewhere but that didn't help either.

Any other ideas on how to REALLY fix this? Thanks in advance.

Emails and Folders Disappeared in Outlook for Mac 2011

24. April 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: Office 365, Outlook, Outlook account

I have been using Outlook for Mac 2011 for about two years now. A few days ago, when I opened Outlook, all my emails and folders disappeared.

I am still able to access my Inbox emails and folders via Office 365; it's just that my Outlook can't seem to access anything.

No, I didn't do anything special to my Outlook account on this computer.

How do I get Outlook to get the emails and folders again without my having to log in to Office 365 on a web browser?

Thanks!

22. April 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: livemail · Tags: Outlook, outlook mail account

Hi have tried to log into my Outlook mail account Hotmail etc but all i can see is a very thin strip at the top of my screen so cannot access anything.

Have tried changing password but it still comes back to the strip at the top which is of no use, can anyone help with this problem which has just appeared.

Thank you

dr beat

Why does Adding another users Calendar cause AutoDiscover to trigger?

22. April 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: auto discovery, Outlook, Outlook Exchange Auto Configure

Outlook for Mac 2011 14.4.1 (140326)

Connected to Office 365 hosted exchange server.

Each time I attempt to "Open Calendar" for Shared calendars, Outlook is triggering an auto discovery event. In the Outlook log file I see

Outlook Exchange Auto Configure Error code: -3259

What does this error code mean?

Fonts keep changing in Outlook Mac 2011

21. April 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: management application, mid-sentence, Outlook

I have been struggling with this issue for some time.

As I am typing an email in Outlook (HTML on) the fonts will change mid-sentence sometimes. Sometimes it is just the font size, sometimes it is a completely different typeface.

I do not have any font management application running (i.e., Suitcase) so I don't know what would be affecting this. I also trying clearing out and pref files to no avail.

Thanks.

OS Mavericks 10.9.2

Outlook 14.4.1

MacBook Pro 15 2.6 GHz Core i7

Outlook 2011 Mac Folders Missing

13. April 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: microsoft, Outlook, Yahoo

I have synced two accounts to Outlook 2011 (one which is a Microsoft 365 and the other is a BT Yahoo account). The folders from the Microsoft 365 account have synced correctly with Outlook however the folders for the BT Yahoo account have not synced at all. I wondered if anyone else has had this problem and/or had a solution.

Many thanks.

Upgraded to Outlook 2011 to solve some issue with Mail but

12. April 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: email alias, Outlook

I have decided to make a move to Outlook in the hope it was better than Mail for Mac but it was only once installed I find out that

- there is no way to add an email alias and choose which is the default address the email will be sent

- I can't add schedule to my IMAP folder to stop some account send and receive (just the default one can be selected)

- Outlook doesn't support Caldav and I can't get my appointments shown

- Similarly to the above, I can't enjoy my contacts in the list

I hope to be wrong, but I have spent nearly three hours to read threads everywhere attempting several tricks

Hopefully I'm wrong

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