Moving to Outlook 2011 advice
i am considering moving to Outlook now that i purchased the office for mac suite.
mostly i did this to get excel in case i need it for a small business.
since i run a small business i don't have anyone in IT organizing my data but can anyone help me out with whether moving to Outlook helped /them/ get their business organized? i have the following issues to resolved:
1. mac contacts simply will not sync with anything else in the universe that allows me to retain my CATEGORIES/GROUPS and if it cannot keep this organization it is not possible to use it to sync to anything other than itself. i have also had issues with the database getting corrupted.
2. Mac Mail is throwing up frequent errors in both Mountain Lion and in Mavericks and in iOS7 and the amount of time i spend with this is extra-ordinary.
3. i have about 12 email addresses. if i change anything i have 12 email addresses in 3 email clients on 3 devices and i have to re-enter everything or anything that has change on all of these devices.
4. Mac Mail search appears to me to be not working or very weak or very slow or all of the above.
5. i cannot add a Reminder to Reminders and have it show up in my Calendar
6. Calendar events cannot travel across time zones which creates endless problems for me when traveling.
any suggestions on whether a move might solve some of this?
TIA
I have the same problem. Luckily I ran Mail and Outlook in parallel so I don't need to convert my email files, but now I can't get rid of Outlook as my default calendar. Does anyone know how to make iCal the default?
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Will moving to Outlook 2011 solve anything
i am considering moving to Outlook now that i purchased the office for mac suite.
mostly i did this to get excel in case i need it for a small business.
since i run a small business i don't have anyone in IT organizing my data but can anyone help me out with whether moving to Outlook helped /them/ get their business organized? i have the following issues to resolved:
1. mac contacts simply will not sync with anything else in the universe that allows me to retain my CATEGORIES/GROUPS and if it cannot keep this organization it is not possible to use it to sync to anything other than itself. i have also had issues with the database getting corrupted.
2. Mac Mail is throwing up frequent errors in both Mountain Lion and in Mavericks and in iOS7 and the amount of time i spend with this is extra-ordinary.
3. i have about 12 email addresses. if i change anything i have 12 email addresses in 3 email clients on 3 devices and i have to re-enter everything or anything that has change on all of these devices.
4. Mac Mail search appears to me to be not working or very weak or very slow or all of the above.
5. i cannot add a Reminder to Reminders and have it show up in my Calendar
6. Calendar events cannot travel across time zones which creates endless problems for me when traveling.
any suggestions on whether a move might solve some of this?
TIAI have the same problem. Luckily I ran Mail and Outlook in parallel so I don't need to convert my email files, but now I can't get rid of Outlook as my default calendar. Does anyone know how to make iCal the default?
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Moving from Outlook 2011 back to Mail. How?
I thought I would like to use Outlook 2011 for the mac. It is great software, but I would prefer to move back to the native OS X Mail app. It just makes syncing so much easier with my devices.
However Outlook only produces OLM files... How do I get messages back over to Mail. I have looked everywhere and cannot find a solution.
Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.I have the same problem. Luckily I ran Mail and Outlook in parallel so I don't need to convert my email files, but now I can't get rid of Outlook as my default calendar. Does anyone know how to make iCal the default?
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I have started to get this error message: "5.1.3 bad address syntax" in my email account. I am using Outlook 2011. It does not appear to be affecting sending or receiving email. I have no idea what it means or how to resolve the issue. Any advice? My email account is through Optimum online and I am using Airpost Express.
P.S. The error sound "bong" is driving us nuts!Please post on the Office for Mac product forums that Microsoft hosts. It's their product and they can best troubleshoot the issue.
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Outlook 2011 on MAC Sent Items folders not syncing when items are moved and deleted
Emails in the in the inbox can be moved to different folders and they will update (disappear from the inbox) on the Macbook with Outlook 2011 . the Windows PC outlook 2010, Iphone and OWA update accordingly. Sent Items that are moved on the Macbook are only
moved in the Macbook. The rest of the machines still have the email in the sent items folder and the "moved" email in the folder it was moved to.
Redid the identity and its a new install. What is next? Sent items are changed on the Macbook more often and the changes need to propagate across all the devices.Hi,
Do you have Cached mode enabled in Windows PC Outlook 2010? If so, please turn if off to see the result. To do this, open Outlook 2010, click File > Account Settings > Account Settings, double click your Exchange account, then clear the
Use Cached Exchange Mode check box.
Since this issue may also related to Outlook 2011, you can also post in the Outlook for Mac forum to see if there is any good suggestion:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoutlook?tab=Threads
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Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support
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Since moving to the cloud can't get .mac/.me mail to work in Outlook 2011
I get the following error repeatedly in Outlook 2011 for Mac since moving to icloud on Lion OSX.
Anyone know what settings will stop the errors - getting them every few minutes.
Outlook cannot find the server. Verify the server information is entered correctly in the Account Settings, and that your DNS settings in the Network pane of System Preferences are correct.
Outlook cannot find the server. Verify the server information is entered correctly in the Account Settings, and that your DNS settings in the Network pane of System Preferences are correct.
Account name: "Mac"
Error code: -3170
Thanks.Hi
My server settings are as follows:
Username is the name without the "@mac.com"
Password is my correct password
Incoming server imap.mail.me.com
Using default port (993)
Use SSL to connect (recommended) checked
Always use secure password is unchecked
Outgoing server is smtp.mail.me.com
Override Default port is checked and set to 587
Use SSL to connect is checked
Have tried both Use incoming Server info
and Username and Password (I get the same result with both)
This has been happening for days so it's not the server problems that were causing it. -
Everything seemed to work fine after moving everything over from my old MacBook Pro at first but I cannot run Outlook 2011 for Mac. The logo displays briefly and then the app closes. It never really even gets anything loaded other than the little logo.
Try removing and reinstalling Outlook
Next try posting in a more appropriate forum. this is the iPod touch forum -
Moving over from Mac Mail to Mac Outlook 2011
Hi All - I am in the process of moving from Mac Mail to Mac Outlook 2011. Could anyone please advise how I disable Mac Mail. I want to keep all of the old emails there but just start using Outlook 2011. I would happy for any suggestions. I am a bit wary to start trying touring over all of the emails from Mail to Outlook, I think it would be a very long process.
Sending emails from Outlook is taking a bit of time at the moment, I'm wondering if it is to do with still having Mail sitting there.
Thanks in advance.Hi Loner T
Thanks so much for your reply. I have taken all of the accounts offline. It does say that the messages are being stored on servers.
Do you know is it easy or laborious to export the mailbox? I have not done this before.
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Outlook 2011 for mac no longer syncs with calendar and contacts
Hi all,
Not sure whether the recent security update botched up my sync, but after recently upgrading to MS Office with Outlook 2011 for the Mac, my contacts and calendar items no longer sync. I've applied the revised security patch to no avail. In fact, I noticed that my contacts were no longer syncing prior to the security update, and in the last day or so, I have noticed that calendar items have ceased to sync. I've tried all of the Microsoft and Apple knowledge-based recipes to correct the problem, but it persists. I may be missing something, or performed the steps out of sequence, but I've tried them many times and I'm sure at least once was to the letter.
The oddity is that the problem appears to be a broken link between iCal and Outlook via the sync process, which uses MobileMe and is administered through iTunes. Perhaps someone has a straightforward instruction set to fix that link?
Is anyone else having this problem of late? I am on Snow Leopard, 10.6.8 on a 2011 MBP with MS Office 2011 and SP1 installed.
Thanks much in advance for any helpful advice.Thanks Julian for the suggestion. Unfortunately all still checked out and nothing amiss. However, after reinstalling OS 10.6.8 it appears that my calendar items are syncing once again, but not my contacts. I appreciate the suggestion none the less.
This same thing seems to happen each time I've upgraded Office with the associated version of Entourage, and now Outlook. Ah, well..nothing's ever simple. But I am thoroughly enjoying Outlook and the rest of the Office suite. -
How do you cut and paste tables in and out of Excel from either Mail.app or Outlook 2011?
When I try to cut and paste a table generated in Excel for Mac into the body of an email the formatting holds but when I send the table is reduced to one column. Same is true for copying from incoming mail into Excel, when I paste into Excel it is reduced to one column rather than keeping the table format. I have tried using mail.app and went out and Outlook 2011 and both programs have the same issue. The reformatting also happens when I forward an email received from a coworker that contains a table, not just on cut and paste operations.
I need to do this regularly and right now my only option is using my old PC where the cut and paste function keeps formatting between Excel and Outlook just fine. Attaching a pdf or excel file is not an option. There has to be a way to maintain the formatting and being able to extract the tables keeping them intact. Please let me know if you have a solution to maintain this formatting within email programs. Thank you in advance.Selecting all does not help - the issue is I need a table within an incoming email to be moved to excel, edited and then pasted back into a new email. "Select All" picks up the email headers, signatures, any messages around the table etc so that doesn't work. Also, as pointed out above Excel doesn't have a select all feature to get the tables back into the body of an email.
I just tried again going from Excel into Outlook 2011. No luck. All one column down the left side of the email. All columns are removed and text crammed into one column. Just to check I cut from one Excel document and pasted into another and it retained all formating just fine. It is only in and out of Outlook that seems to be the issue. -
Printing from Outlook 2011 stopped working
I am helping a friend who uses Microsoft Office 2011 on an iMac running 10.7.2. He is suddenly unable to print from Outlook. Choosing Print... from the File menu or clicking a print button produces no result at all - the normal print dialogue box does not appear. Previously he could print without a problem. He has no problem printing from Word in Office 2011.
We have updated Office to 14.1.4 through Microsoft Update. We have worked through the advice in the Microsoft support document 2409305 - backing up Outlook identities, and removing Oulook Preferences as advised there. The error remains. We then created a new identity and found we could print from that. So we followed the Microsoft advice to rebuild the Outlook identity database. We still cannot print from Outlook.
Advice greatly appreciated!
Andrew SpackmanThanks everyone!
The reason we did not import the mail, contacts, etc from the old identity to the new identity, as suggested by Templeton Peck, is that we were following step by step a Microsoft troubleshooting document, in which creating the new identity was a testing step, which was then followed by different advice on what to do depending on the result. Importing the mail etc was not one of the recommendations.
Now that may well be a good move. But while I have been using Macs and email systems since 1985 I don't have any experience of Outlook. (I do have some experience of Entourage - as previously used by another friend - and there rebuilding the database seemed to be a regular activity.)
As there is no Exchange involved in my friend's use of email, I am inclined to take what would be the easiest route for me (and, I hope, entirely satisfactory for my friend!) which is a move to Apple Mail (and iCal and Address Book of course). That's the setup I currently use. Obviously if Exchange were involved I wouldn't let up on the Outlook problem, but it looks as though that would require professional help.
Thnaks again!
Andrew Spackman -
After switching to iCloud, Outlook 2011 calendar no longer syncs with iCal.
Before iCloud, my Outlook 2011 calendar (Exchange) was syncing locally with iCal, which worked just fine. Once I moved to iCloud, my local calendar was removed by iCloud, and I can no longer sync my Outlook 2011 calendar (Exchange) to my local iCal (I don't want it to sync with iCloud, if that's still possible). How do I get this capability back?
That's not the point. Before iCloud, Outlook synched with Apple Calendar and/or iCal. With iCloud, Cal syncs with iPhone and other devices. Outlook doesn't have to sync with iCloud (although that would certainly be nice). It just has to continue to sync with Cal, which in turn syncs with devices via iCloud.
But for some inane reason, it doesn't. If this is Apple's way of forcing people to not use Office and only use Calendar and Apple Mail, they are going to stop the gains they've made in business environments. Businesses, especially large businesses, use Outlook. End of story.
Furthermore, Apple's instructions for setting up or deleting iCal and iCloud accounts is complete gibberish. And I'm a tech who has been working with computers for 32 years. Apple used to be great at making things easy. They now suck at it and are just as bad as Microsoft. -
Hi everyone. Is this the right place to post something about this program? Someone in the office has a Mac laptop with the newest version fo the OS and the latest version of Office for the Mac. The Mac is connected to our Windows domain network and Outlook setup with our Exchange server was simple and flawless.
However, this user has found that she doesn't have access to her distribution lists inside her Contacts folder. She can and has access to all of her individual contacts but there is zero access to any distribution lists in that folder that she created on her old Windows machine.
Any idea why this is happening and how to fix it? I figure it has to be a simply Outlook configuration issue. Let me know what you think. Thanks.I have a new G5 intel with a ton of ram and a tb hard drive, and company ordered outlook 2011 that is, let's just say, problematic. I have emails stuck in my "outbox" and have been to the microsoft "help" site. It didn't. Keeps telling me I'm "out of memory." I tried all of their "solutions" and they weren't the solution.
I've nuked the fonts, rebuilt the database, gone offline and hit "delete" like MS suggests (it tells me that in order to delete the emails, I have to be "online"), reinstalled the whole kit n' kaboodle and still the same outcome... emails stuck in the outbox. There's nothing attached to them. They're not big, just text. I hit reply to each of the emails, hit send and there they sit. Tried logging in via web and deleting the emails from our mail server; they don't exist on the mail server... they're in my very own outlook 2011 program and refuse to be moved, deleted or altered in any way shape or form.
So, telling people to "head on over to Microsoft, they'll fix it" is no answer. officeformac.com just forwards you to the microsoft.com/mac site, and any google links you might find that look like they'd be helpful on officeformac.com are just dead ends with "404-server not found" messages. Never was a fan of Microsoft's corrupt ways and they sure haven't won me over this time, either.
Anybody got any real thoughts on how to outsmart Outlook? -
Outlook 2011 for Mac / Synching issues
Hi there,
it seems that I'm not alone with 'issues' in synching Outlook for Mac 2011 with mobile devices..
The setup I am trying to arm wrestle into submission is
MacBook Air (brand new) Mavericks 10.9.3
iPhone 5 iOS 7.1.1.
Outlook 2013 (brand new)
I've been able to succesfully import all of my email (from a previous version in windows) as well as get the contacts and the calendars imported onto Outlook for Mac, but am at my wits end to get them all talking to each other.
Outlook won't sync to the iPhone for mail, contacts and or calendar, nor visa versa.
I've read literally thousands of posts all suggesting this fix and that fix to no avail. I'm now reading that perhaps mavericks is not compatible with outlook synching services or outlook synching services isn't compatible with mavericks. I'm not trying to lay blame to either side as I'm simply looking for a solution.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Paul
oh - Apple Migration Tool.... is appalling in my opinion, it did sweet bugger all.Minor correction. It's Outlook 2011, Outlook 2013 is the Windows version.
Sync Basics
CalDAV & CardDAV are protocols used by Apple, Google, Yahoo and others to sync contacts and calendars. Neither Entourage 2008 nor Outlook 2011 support CalDAV or CardDAV.
You can no longer sync with any third-party apps running on your Mac that use Sync Services, like Entourage or Outlook.
If you want to stick with Outlook, I suggest you look at Office 365 Exchange. Otherwise, moving to Apple Mail, Contacts and Calendar with iCloud might be a better option for you.
Until Microsoft adds CalDAV and CardDAV support to Outlook, there is no way to sync other than get an Exchange account. It's $4/month Exchange Online.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/microsoft-exchange-online-email-for-b usiness-FX103739072.aspx -
I am having problems with my outlook 2011. While i am able to check and SEND email on all my other devices ( Ipad, iphone, Macbook), I am unablesend any email with my iMac ( i can recieve email) . This problem started suddenly and the error message i get is error 5.7.8. I have read the threads on line and went into settings, even created a new profile, nothing helps...Please advice..is this something to do with my keychain Access?
As Outlook is not an Apple product, you will find more helpers familiar with Outlook here:
Office for Mac forums
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