MS Outlook for Mac 2011 great for eMail

I recently decided to give MS Outlook for Mac 2011 a try after using the native mail.app with my MacBook Pro (13 inch, Mid 2012), and wow! I don't know if it's because I have always used Outlook on my PC and have grown accostomed to it, but it really does feel like the interface, rules, folders, everythign is better!
I have 3 imap accounts that I run through Outlook (same ones in mail.app) and I now no longer feel like I'm "losing" eMail. For the past 6+ months I have lost eMail messages due to the way mail.app organizes them. It was a real hassle having to do exhaustive, complex searches involving subject, sender, date. No longer.
Anyway, just thought to write this up in case anyone else is considering jumping from mail.app to Outlook. Oh, and I ONLY use outlook for eMail. For Contacts and Calendar items, I continue to use the native apps (although I did import my contacts list in order to automatically download pictures in eMails).

vCards exported from Outlook are not compatible with iCloud if that's what you're trying to import it to. You'll have to do something like create a Gmail account, then export your Outlook contacts to Gmail (see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/export-outlook-contacts-to-google -gmail-HA001148902.aspx), then export the contacts from Gmail as a vCard (see https://support.google.com/mail/answer/24911?hl=en) and import it to iCloud (see http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3605).

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I mainly use Word and find that it is extremely slow when I track changes. Documents need not be particularly large - even in a 30-page document after a few pages of tracks typing becomes a pain, in particular in comment bubbles where the text shows up letter-by-letter and only finish several seconds after I've stopped typing. Other programs run at the same time do not suffer from this horrible lag.
I have searched and seen that this is not uncommon so it appears that Microsoft's coders are not particularly well versed in coding for Mac.
My question is if other users have found ways to improve the situation, for instance by trashing plists or something like that? This is really driving me crazy
Many TIA
Philip

You might try looking/posting here.
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Lost my Outlook for Mac 2011 and all emails, calendar, etc. after moving and trashing some files

I followed some suggestions for improving speed and ran the EtreCheck and removed some items. I didn't touch anything Microsoft or Outlook related. My mac got hung-up last night when I was trying to put it to sleep so I had to force quit some programs, one of which was Outlook, and then I shut down the mac rather than sleep mode. This morning I no longer had any of my emails, or my calendar, or excel files, etc. I couldn't get any new emails because it said the server did not recognize or acknowledge my user accounts or passwords. I went to the ISP's website and all my accounts/passwords were correct and active as I was still getting them through my iphone and ipad. Can anyone help me? I can provide the latest EtreCheck and system log showing the warnings, failures, errors, etc. if that helps!

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Thanks for Diane's suggestion. If it still doesn't work, I suggest you post the question in Office for Mac forum to get more specific support:
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Unable to attach PDF to email (Outlook for Mac 2011)

We are pushing out software upgrades for CS5 and MS Office 2011 for Mac. We've discoverd that we can't use the Attach to email feature in Acrobat. The spinning rainbow wheel pops up for about a minute, and then Acrobat is non-responsive and we have to force quit. We can still drag and drop an attachment so we have a viable workaround but obviously we'd like to be able to use the automated feature.
All software is up-to-date.
In the preferences panel of Outlook, we have selected Outlook to be the default mail application.
As a sidenote, this feature doesn't work with Acobat X beta either. However, in the beta version of Acrobat X, if we declare Apple's mail application to be the default, it works fine. Unfortunately we use the Office suite as part of our enterprise system, so that's what we need to work with.
Has anyone else experienced this? I've logged a ticket with Adobe but I haven't heard back from them yet.
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Take the bhama way
figured out how to make it work. I am using Adobe Acrobat X Pro (mac)
and MS Outlook for Mac 2011.
For those who are interested, this is what I did:
1. Create a folder on desktop to save your pdf¹s files you want to email
to. Mine is named, "PDF to Email"
2. Open Automator, create a "Folder Action"
3. At the top, "Choose Folder", choose your newly created folder on the
desktop
4. Choose the "Rename Finder Items" action from the action list. I chose,
"Don¹t Add" on the add a Copy Finder Items Action menu.
5. On the "Add Date or Time to Finder Item Names" I chose, "Name Single
Item" from the first drop down menu.
6. Click on "Options" at the bottom of that window to select the "Show
this action when the workflow runs" so you can rename your file
something other than the Acrobat default.
7. Choose the "Create New Outlook Mail Message" from the action list and
add it below the "Name Single Item in Finder Item Names"
8. Choose "File>Save As" and give your file a name. Mine is, "PDF to
Email".
9. Close Automator
10. Open Acrobat X Pro.
11. Go to "File>Action Wizard>Create New Action"
12. Here you choose, "Save to>A Folder on my computer"
13. Choose the folder on the desktop that we saved earlier
14. Save the file, with the action name you will remember.
Now when you are in Acrobat X Pro and you want to send that .pdf file via
Outlook for Mac 2011, follow the steps below.
With the file you want to email open, go to "File>Action Wizard>(Action
you created) Mine is "PDF to Email". It will take a few seconds, but you
will get an "Action Completed". You will get a pop up that allows you to
name/rename the file. Then it should open your Outlook with your .pdf
attached and ready for sending.
You might need to tweak the actions to suit your needs, but this should
work for you.
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It's supposed to work now? I've made sure I'm on latest (check for update)
and it says I am. Still get an error. It does bring Outlook to the
forground, but same error when I hide Outlook - An error occurred while
trying to create a mail document. Suggestions?
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DUPLICATE EMAILS IN OUTLOOK FOR MAC 2011

Why does outlook for mac 2011 download duplicate emails from web server pop3 accounts?

Hello Copernico:
I have the same problem and none of the fixes have worked for me, including preventing "Nap app" in Outlook. Let me know if you come across a solution, and I will do the same.

ICloud doesn't sync with Outlook for Mac 2011

Any help would be appreciated...
I've got a MacBook Pro (OS X 10.7.3), iPhone 4 and iPad 2.
I use Office/Outlook for Mac 2011. The email is fine, but I can't figure out how to get contacts and calendar to sync with iPhone & iPad using iCloud...
Is there a way to use iCloud to sync contacts and calendars across all devices?
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Alemont1965 wrote:
Any help would be appreciated...
I've got a MacBook Pro (OS X 10.7.3), iPhone 4 and iPad 2.
I use Office/Outlook for Mac 2011. The email is fine, but I can't figure out how to get contacts and calendar to sync with iPhone & iPad using iCloud...
Is there a way to use iCloud to sync contacts and calendars across all devices?
Thanks in advance for your help!
There is no way to use iCloud Dav services (contacts and calendars) in Outlook 2011 as Outlook does not support Dav services.
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Trouble transferring email to Outlook for Mac 2011

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Additional file size is added to my PDF when attaching it to an email in Outlook for Mac 2011

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SHARE PHOTOS USING EMAIL - OUTLOOK FOR MAC 2011

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Léonie

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HT4864 My outgoing email as stopped working when using Outlook for mac 2011. Any suggestions?

My outgoing email as stopped working when using Outlook for mac 2011. I have deleted and reinstalled the account twice. I have 11 gig free on my iCloud account. The outgoing server is set at smtp.mail.me.com using port 587. If I was able to reinstall the account, I am positive I have the correct password. I can log into my iCloud accout using the same credentials.
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I called Microsoft to fix my problem...for those maybe having the same issue, I was told by the Tech to use this outgoing server setting - p06-smtp.mail.me.com
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Jason The Hague wrote:
Thanks! But seriously why have Apple disabled the info sync on iTunes? By 'Upgrading' to Mavericks I've inadvertantly disabled my Apple mobile devices from fulfilling their function. Come on Apple work with us here!!
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