Outlook 2011 screen loses focus / priority when composing email

When composing an email in Outlook 2011, the screen changes from being the priority / primary focus...and it's driving me nuts. I am using an external keyboard/mouse so it's not an issue where I am hitting the trackpad. When typing, the email window stays in the foreground; however, the focus is a different window...so it just "bonks" at me as I type the email...having to reach over to my mouse, click at the end of the sentence and continue typing. Has anyone else run across this? Any ideas? Running OSX 10.8, 2.7GHz MBP Core i7 with 8GB RAM

Here is a link with a couple work arounds http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1180706. Also it appears that the issue is known as well as the cause. Thought I'd share this is driving me nuts.

Similar Messages

Screen loses focus??

When scrolling through my albums my screen loses focus and becomes slightly blurred. Anyone notice this issue? I wonder if I need to get a replacement. I just bought it.

Actually, iTunes, iPhoto, etc do this too - I think it depends mostly on the speed of your scrolling and the speed of the machine being used.
The focus comes in slightly delayed, and that may be intentional to speed scrolling until you select what you want to see.
That's my guess(es) on it.

Email contacts don't show up when composing email

Hi,
I recently got an iPad2 and added a couple of email accounts including gmail and yahoo mail. However, i noticed a key difference when composing email from an iPad rather than on an Iphone.
On my iPhone4 when I compose an email and in the 'To:' address field I start typing the name of my contact iphone is able to search from my contact list from my gmail account, however this does not happen on the Ipad.
Any idea how to fix this?
I have set-up my email accounts in the same way as I did on my phone.
Thanks very much

It also work on the iPad, so try to turn off/on your iPad or a reset, keep the On/off button and the Home button pressed at the same time till you see the Apple logo in your screen.

In my macbook pro when composing email it coping into thrash as well so how to stop this ?

in my macbook pro when composing email it coping into thrash as well so how to stop this ?

You may have a Bad fan. Make an appointment and take it to the genius bar for an evaluation. It's free, in warranty or out.

Email address list populated drop down disappearing on the to / cc / bcc fields when composing emails

First the symptoms:
As far as I can see this effects only the v5.0 RIM OS. We have a multitude of users and the ones who are affected all shared the same trait: they had newer, v5.0 OS preinstalled on their BBerries. The ones with v4.7 never had the problem (might be a coinsidence, nothing solid here)
The user cannot see a drop down of email addresses prepopulated with the recently used ones, and with the option to "lookup" the email address. User starts typing the email address, and no drop down is shown while composing email.
If the user manually types in the email address into the To, Cc or BCc fields, the adress will not be permanent and the email will not be sent at all. The "send" menu item will not be visible when the track ball is pressed.
Quick remedy to send emails:
Hit the enter key after typing in the email address. Do NOT switch to the next row using the track ball, or pressing the trackball. Hit the enter key. Then you will be able to send the email.
Backing up the user files and wiping the handset and re-installing the OS seems to resolve the issue, alas, one user had the same problem again in a month after the operation. So that is NOT a permanent solution.
Funny fix: On the affected device, go to email options -> Options / General Options / "Show recent contacts when composing email" and just switch it to whatever is in there. If it is Yes, make it No, if it is No, make it yes. Then save. And the drop down should become visible again. Counter-intuitively, this setting was YES on on affected device, we switched it to No just for the sake of having made a change, saved the settings and the drop down became visible with the setting at "NO". When we switched it back to "YES" the drop down became invisible again

Once you have the Write window open, press F9 to open the Contact Sidebar. Select your contacts from there.

Attachments not showing when composing emails

Hello.
For some reason I don't know, Mail has suddenly stopped displaying attachments I insert when composing emails. No matter what file type, it displays the Lego cube with the question mark instead of the attachment. (Note: NOT the little blue square with a question mark which indicates a file missing etc.)
However, people receive them just fine and I receive attachments just fine myself. I also receive my own attachments when I send an email to the office mailing list (which includes myself).
It is only when I compose an email that I am not seeing the things I attach. Not the correct file icon, not the file name or size, not the 'show attachments as...' option. Nothing. Just the blue Lego-type cubes with the question mark.
I have set the Preference in Composing to Rich Text, we use an IMAP server in the office but I am the only one suffering this problem and I don't know what has changed as it was working just fine until a few weeks ago!
Any help would be appreciated as it is extremely irritating, if anything because I don't know why.

Hi,
What if you do a All Mailbox search, are you able to see the specific mail item in the result list?
You might need to check your view setting of that folder. Maybe you have it set for unread mail only, or some settings are filtering out the messages you just moved.
Just highlight the folder, then click View in the ribbon, then click
View Settings. Click Filter... button on the dialog, then clear any related settings or click
Clear All button.
Thanks,
Ethan Hua CHN
TechNet Community Support

Screen Blacks Out When Composing Email

When I am composing emails after a minute or two the screen goes black, and the phone reverts back to the home page. The pending email disappears (not even saved as a draft) anyone have a clue how to fix this?

I'll be honest. These are WAGs. However...
Since the Reset didn't work, try a Restore. Note that it's nowhere near as quick as a Reset. Connect via cable to the computer that you use for sync. From iTunes, select the iPad/iPod and then select the Summary tab. Follow directions for Restore and be sure to say "yes" to the backup. You will be warned that all data (apps, music, movies, etc.) will be erased but, as the Restore finishes, you will be asked if you wish the contents of the backup to be copied to the iPad/iPod. Again, say "yes."
Finally, if the Restore doesn't work, let the battery drain completely. Then recharge for at least an hour and Restore again.

Wireless Keyboard hangs iPad when composing email

I, like most people, use the option key plus arrows in order to move through words and paragraphs quickly when editing text or composing an email. Several times I've been halfway through writing a long email and pressed an option+arrow combo only to find the Mail app has hung. The only way to get it working again is to reset the iPad, thus losing all my text. It's got to the point now that I'm composing email in Pages and then copy-pasting.
Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? It's incredibly frustrating.
Any advice much appreciated.

It also work on the iPad, so try to turn off/on your iPad or a reset, keep the On/off button and the Home button pressed at the same time till you see the Apple logo in your screen.

Eliminate history of unwanted contacts when composing emails

When composing an email, and I type in the first letter or two of the recipient, a history comes up and contains unwanted, incorrect or undesired email addresses that are NOT in my address book. How do I clean them up so only the desired contacts are shown? I cannot find a way to delete these. Thank you...it drives me nuts!

All suggestions ARE in your address books. You have at least 2 default books. The personal and the collected books. You will have to find them in the books and fix or delete them.

GW 8 Webaccess autofill when composing email

Hi All,
After upgrading to GW 8.0.2 hp2 recently we have noticed that when anyone logs in, using any browser, internally or externally, when composing a new message none of the fields autofill from any address books.
I have searched around and haven't found anyone else who has had this problem. Can anyone verify that this happens for them also or is it just our install??
Thanks
Dave

dwiseman2 wrote:
> After upgrading to GW 8.0.2 hp2 recently we have noticed that when
> anyone logs in, using any browser, internally or externally, when
> composing a new message none of the fields autofill from any address
> books.
When logging into WA users have a choice of low or high connection
speeds. Is it possible everyone is defaulting to low? This will cause
WA not to download address books which would disable the "autofill"
functionality.
Novell Knowledge Partner
Enhancement Requests: http://www.novell.com/rms

Q10 remove suggested contacts when composing email

There's an suggested contact with a typo showing up as frequently used when composing any new email, is there a way to remove it? it's causing me to select the wrong one all the time and is bouncing the message (there's an extra "." at the end of the email address.)
I tried to look this answer up but no luck so far.
Please help this is really annoying and causing communication breakdowns between parties.
Thanks!

Anybody got a solution or workaround for this?
thanks a million!

Format when composing email

This may be a dumb question but I want to be able to compose my email so that it will print exactly as it looks on screen. I can size the window and print and it looks perfect, but each time I open & close Mail it changes. I looked for tools to format the window size to be the same each time I open to compose but w/o luck. Can someone help?

Thanx for the response, but maybe I'm not making the scenario clear. First of all I realize that only a certain number of characters will print in a line across a page, really I do. If I open a window to compose mail and the window's width is small, more characters will print in a line on paper than how it shows in the composing email window. This kinda screws up how the printed email will look. I can size the window and it will print exactly how it is laid out in the window, line for line, indentation the same, etc., etc.. What I'm attempting to do is, once I find this exact width of "composing" window, how do I get it to to stay that way? If I find the correct size, type and print it's OK. If I close mail and reopen, the "composing" window width changes back to some default size. I guess what I want is that every time I open the window to compose a new message it opens to a default size that I define. I'm sure it's any easy fix, but I can't figure it out.
THANX!

Contacts Error When Composing Email

When composing an email and selecting a contact from the cache, the contact appears with an exclamation point in red. Why?

I suggest using the same email address you use for your App store. ... If the contact has messages enabled, the contact will appear in a blue ... However, if the name appears in a red bubble with a red exclamation point (!

Email names not in contacs when composing email

Hi,
When composing a new email (activesync). I see many different email addresses when typing in TO... but most of these names are not in my contacts list.
How can I remove certain names?
I'm actually trying to send emails to myself but there are six different addresses with my name... only one of the addresses works.. the others are invalid and bounce back (for instance, one of them does not have anything after the @ sign).
When I check contacts I have only one with my own name in it.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks,
Dave

They are just suggestions from previous emails (you must have typed them in by mistake or received emails from someone with those addresses--possibly spam) and, unfortunately, you can't remove or change them. After a while they'll go away.
1. Please thank those who help you by clicking the "Like" button at the bottom of the post that helped you.
2. If your issue has been solved, please resolve it by marking the post "Solution?" which solved it for you!

Outlook 2011 became slow with Yosemite when online

Dear all,
I have a iMac 24-inch, early 2009. (processor 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 8 Gbytes DDR3, NVDIA Ge Force GT 120 256 Mb, with HD SATA with 626,2 Gb free).
I install from scratch Yosemite (10.10) and also from scratch, Microsoft Office 2011.
Applied all the upgrades, 10.4.6 (service pack 3).
Set my account as usual.
Outlook opens without problem but at each "click" on a message, body of a message, calendar entries, etc.., I got the spinning cursor (rainbow colour) and keeps spinning for more than 15 seconds.
Also I have the same behaviour in my Mac Book Air (8 GB RAM, 512 SSD, Yosemite 10.10)
I notice that if my iMac is not connected to the internet, it is very fast. And when I change it status to online I starting having the same problems as described.
Is there anyone with the same behaviour? Any suggestion (remember, my installation is totaly done from scratch)
Thank you
Best Regards
Mario

Thank you Tim,
I will move it to iMac forum.
By the way MS Office is up to date.
Thank you
Best Regards,
Mário

Outlook 2011 screen loses focus / priority when composing email

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for