Alternative to outlook

My trial subscription to outlook has ended, but my iphone only seems able to sync with Outlook. Surely Apple have an alternative or can anyone suggest one? I can't bear to pay a fortune to Microsoft just for their Outlook calendar app. Or can my Mobile me account get round outlook somehow?

Well, there is Soho Organizer, $99.00, contacts, calendars, tasks and notes. iCloud compatible (most other things as well, except for MS Exchange)
But iCal and Address Book do 95% of what Soho does.

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  • Alternative to Outlook to back up contacts on PC and use calendar

    New owner of iphone 3gs 16gb but have just discovered iphone does not support Outlook 2000.
    I have a recent laptop but my microsoft office is 2000 professional and this currently suits my needs. I am not in a financial position to upgrade Outlook.
    Is there a free alternative? I just cant toback up all my contacts on the pc and if poss have use of a calendar function so that I can do away with the paper filofax!!!!
    Thanks

    Outlook 2000 will probably never sync with the iPhone, But there is a solution to at least IMPORT contact data from it into the iPhone. Here are the steps for this fairly easy 2-minute process:
    1) Open Outlook 2000 and select File : Import/Export
    2) Choose "Export to a File"
    3) Choose "Comma Separated Values (Windows)"
    4) Select your Contacts folder
    5) Select your desktop or other place to save the temporary export file. Remember this name/location for step 10.
    6) Click "Finish"
    7) Now you need to open Windows Address Book. It is found in Start : All Programs: Accessories : Address Book
    8) If it asks you if you want it to be your default vCard viewer, click "No"
    9) Now we will import your contacts from the file you created using Outlook. Choose File : Import : Other Address Book : Text File (Comma Separated Values)
    10) Choose the file you saved (in Step 5 you picked the name/location)
    11) "Files of Type" will default to CSV; leave it at that and click "Open"
    12) Click "Next" and accept the default field mappings
    13) Click Finish
    14) Now dock your iPhone and select the "Info" tab on your iPhone section of iTunes
    15) Click "Sync contacts from:"and choose "Windows Address Book" instead of Outlook
    16) Click "Sync" at the lower right of the iTunes screen. Voila!
    However BE WARNED!
    This fix can be problematic and can lead to your contacts being deleted from your iPhone. Read on!
    We associated our iPhone/iTunes account with the Windows Address Book when we did the import. This worked fine for me. Then, somehow, WAB decided to associate itself with Outlook. Then, because this didn't work, iTunes kept overwriting the iPhones contacts with WAB contacts--which were a grand total of ZERO.
    You can tell you will have this problem if your file : import/export options in WAB are grayed out.
    To fix it, do this:
    1) In WAB, go to tools : options
    2) In the Data Sharing options, select "Do not share..."
    3) Restart WAB and make sure the import/export functions are available. (Not a bad time to make a backup, either!)
    4) Sync up your iPhone..should work!

  • Is there a Mail alternative with Outlook functionality?

    Can anyone suggest a good alternative to Mail (which is just pathetic in my opinion)?  I am looking for a program that has, all on the same screen, just like Outlook, my mail, calendar and appointments/reminders.

    You can download Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac and try Microsoft Outlook for Mac > http://www.microsoft.com/mac

  • Outlook 2013 is crashing almost immediately upon opening it, on multiple computers.

    So, I've got this client.  He's a lawyer, he runs a small law office with four employees to help him in his day-to-day work.  I'm his IT guy, and I recommended that he purchase Office 365.
    I am beginning to regret making that recommendation.
    Now, obviously, in a small law office, e-mail is a pretty essential part of the office workflow.  The lead guy usually corresponds with his office from his home office 45 miles away.  He does so via e-mail.  He's not exactly a stellar typist,
    either, so much to my chagrin, he's more-or-less stuck with Outlook.  If he wasn't so dead-set on using handwriting and ink, I would have him using Mozilla Thunderbird in a heartbeat, because my experience with Outlook tonight has been unbelievable. 
    Thunderbird downloaded, and displays 10,000+ e-mails without skipping a beat, and it's free.  Your product costs $100/year, and is crashing on EVERY SINGLE MACHINE.
    Each employee has their own IMAP e-mail account from our webhost, InMotionHosting.  My client has three IMAP e-mail accounts -- his main, public-facing account, his internal private correspondence account, and an account to which all newsletters and
    such are going to.  Each employee has everyone else's e-mail account on each of their machines, so they can all easily correspond with eachother and keep track of eachother's progress on one matter or another.
    The problem:
    I fire up Outlook, at which point, it begins to Send/Receive from all accounts.  This lasts about a minute, before I am informed that "Microsoft Outlook has stopped working."  If I try to click on ANY other inbox, again, Outlook crashes. 
    I have tried outlook.exe /safe.  I have tried outlook.exe /cleanviews.  I have ensured that I have the latest Windows updates.  I have ensured that I have the latest Office updates.  I have tried the ScanPST.exe utility.  I have tried
    deleting my client's profile, and manually re-adding each and every e-mail account.  I have tried a repair install of Outlook.
    Nothing.  Works.  Eventually, it gets to a point where Outlook just crashes, and will not stop crashing whenever I open it.  I can only hope that this is happening to millions of other users, and the woeful lack of action on Microsoft's part
    will lead to someone, ANYONE, presenting a valid alternative to Outlook.  Your monopoly on office productivity software is obvious to anyone who uses these.

    Hi, in case the antivirus software conflicts with Outlook, please disable your security AVG/Firewall, especially the mail scanner module to check whether it would happen again.
    For the further steps, please perform a clean boot to troubleshoot the problem:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135/en-us
    You may also try Selective Startup to identify problems with conflicting applications.
    We can find more information about "Outlook 2010 or Outlook 2013 not responding, hangs, freezes or stopped working" in the link below, in which you can find some possible reasons and the selective startup steps
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2652320
    I hope the suggestion is helpful.
    Regards.
    Melon Chen
    TechNet Community Support

  • Reading Outlook files without Outlook

    Hi, I'm looking for recommendations for alternative software for Outlook.  I don't have it, but I receive Outlook files I need to read.  Are there any viable alternatives to Outlook to access the files?  Thanks!

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    This is your problem. If you don't know what encoding the text is stored in, then the chances that the default encoding used to read it will be correct are slim.
    But even when specifying UTF-8 to be encoding of the file to read, it doesn't work correctly:There are many different character encodings, and most of them don't overlap. Anything above 127 usually causes problems.
    FileInputStream fileIS= new FileInputStream("somefile.txt");
    Reader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fileIS, Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
    EVERYWHERE I look, ppl are using these codes! But it doesn't work, some characters (such as the Euro sign) are displayed as squares.The problem isn't with the code, it's that the file you're reading isn't using an encoding that's compatible with UTF-8. Assuming that using UTF-8 should work for all encodings is like assuming that someone who can read Chinese should be able to read a book written in Spanish or Greek. It doesn't work that way.
    However, I want to be able to read not only UTF-8 files but anything that Java supports. Any ideas?You need to know what encoding your files are stored in, period. There are a few ways to guess what the encoding is, but they're only reliable for a small set of encodings.
    You don't seem to truly understand what character encodings are, or how to use them, so read this:
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  • Cannot sync Outlook contacts to iphone

    This worked at one point but now my Outlook 03 contacts no longer sync with my iphone. The calandar & mail work great, just the contacts do now sync.
    Help.

    If it worked at one time this is usually caused by a bad contact record in the contact database. As a start open Contacts in Outlook, using the Phone List view. Open the first contact, then save it. If you get an error this is a bad contact. If this does not find that the first record is bad open iTunes go to Edit/Preferences, then the Syncing tab, and Reset Sync History and try again.
    If it still won't sync contacts you can use scanpst.exe to check the PST file. It is usually in C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033. Instructions can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287497
    Alternatively, using Outlook, export the PST file as a CSV file, then import it.

  • Cannot Sync Outlook Contacts to iPhone 4S from iTunes

    I configured a verizon email account in Outlook. Then, when I go to iTunes to sync and upload contacts, a choice for Outlook doesn't appear. Only a choice for Windows Contacts. iTunes apparently doesn't see the new email account configuration. How do I upload Outlook contacts to the iPhone 4 s? Help !!

    If it worked at one time this is usually caused by a bad contact record in the contact database. As a start open Contacts in Outlook, using the Phone List view. Open the first contact, then save it. If you get an error this is a bad contact. If this does not find that the first record is bad open iTunes go to Edit/Preferences, then the Syncing tab, and Reset Sync History and try again.
    If it still won't sync contacts you can use scanpst.exe to check the PST file. It is usually in C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033. Instructions can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287497
    Alternatively, using Outlook, export the PST file as a CSV file, then import it.

  • Email - webmail and outlook preferences

    I have a situation where I would like to contact a company by email link but it wants me to use Outlook.  I don't have Outlook and would like to use my webmail email - how do I contact them without using Outlook?
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    Go to Solution.

    You can do it by webmail, but you have to cut and paste the E-mail address into the "to" field.
    There is a free alternative to Outlook, which will save you all that hassle, when you want to reply to an e-mail link.
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  • Outlook 2010 Syncing With iPod Touch and iPad

    I have a PC with Outlook 2003 that sync’s with iPod Touch and iPad. I plan to buy a new PC with Windows 7 and Outlook 2010. Comcast tells me they don’t support Outlook (They support Outlook Express) but Outlook 2003 currently works fine on my PC with Windows XP. I have the following questions:
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    - Will Outlook Express sync with my iPod Touch and iPad and is Outlook Express still available?
    - What is Microsoft Exchange?
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    Just look at page 26 of the new US) users guide. It specifically says that the iPad syncs with Outlook 2010 (as well as 2003 and 2007). However, Comcast's mail help page only lists OL 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007.
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  • Will Photoshop 6.0 be compatible with Windows 8?

    As Windows XP Pro is going to be obsolete after April 2014, I am wondering if my version of Photoshop 6.0 will be compatible with Windows 8? I was thinking of having my tech person install that version of Windows on a new system when spring rolls around. Any insights, feedback and additional suggestions would be appreciated!
    Dan

    I don't think OE has worked aince XP.  If you don't have a copy of MS Office that comes with the full version of Outlook, then MS provide Windows Mail with Windows 8, and it is a poor imitation.  I've been using it on my laptop while my big system box has been out of commission, and it sucks.
    I understand Thunderbird is OK, and it's free
    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
    But I have no experience.
    What you need to do is make a strategy while you still have the old system running, because that will make a difference about what format to export everything from OE.  Here again, I have never used OE, but there about half a dozen alternatives with Outlook.
    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-ecoms/windows-8-importing-old-e mails-from-previous/d46b7b39-2308-4304-af54-2a2cd53a180c
    I wonder if you can move the location of the OE data to an external drive?  That way, you could connect the external drive to the new system and point to it.
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    https://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/importing_email_from_outlook_express_ to_thunderbird_in_windows_8
    From this thread, you simply need to transfer the data to the new system, and the location is linked in the third post.
    http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1774485

  • Thunderbird

    I use thunderbird, and I also use Firefox browser and I love it. I felt like you guys gave me my private life back!! Until I find a nice Firefox phone, I'm still using my BlackBerry. BlackBerry is heavy into html 5, so I was wondering if you could work on thunderbird/blackberry sync as an alternative to Outlook?? I trust you guys more than I do Microsoft. I would be so nice to use Thunderbird on my Blackberry z10 and Passport. I am excited about your phone and platform as I believe it is the future. I, myself am already sick of incompatible ecosystems and yours, and blackberry are the only hope of making ecosystems and invasive marketing a thing of the past.
    Chris

    This question (and I am having the same
    problem) is specific to what you need to do to get
    .Mac to work with it.
    It sounds like the OP wants to get Yahoo to work with it, rather than .Mac. For .Mac problems there is also another forum that might be useful:
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  • Earlier version of iCloud desktop client

    I would like to download the iCloud desktop client but only have Windows XP on my laptop. Is there an earlier version available that will install on Windows XP?

    The iCloud control panel from Apple requires Vista SP2 or higher.  There is an alternative to Outlook called Em Client that advertises that it will sync mail, calendars, contacts and tasks with iCloud (but not photo stream) that runs on XP here: http://www.emclient.com/features.

  • TS3276 Runaway Mail addresses

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  • Alternative way to backup Microsoft outlook in MacBook Pro

    Hi,
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