With Touch Bar support, Outlook users can take advantage of the new MacBook Pro's flagship feature, providing quick access to some of your most-used commands. Here's a full look at what's new in the March Office Insider Slow update (version version 15.32). Just as in Outlook 2011, this latest Outlook for Mac has five different sections—Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks, and Notes. In Outlook 2011, these were listed vertically at the bottom of the window, but have now been moved to a horizontal bar—taking up less room and enabling a sleek, clean look.
If you’re planning to upgrade to OS X El Capitan and you use Outlook 2011 to get email from Microsoft Exchange, you may want to delay upgrading. On El Capitan, connecting to Exchange email servers causes Outlook 2011 to freeze and display a beachball cursor. Update 10-7-2015: Microsoft has released Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.5.6 Update, which resolves the problem with Outlook freezing. To get the update, please use the Microsoft AutoUpdate application or download it manually from the link below: The issue appears to only affect Outlook 2011 when configured to access Exchange servers. When set up with only IMAP accounts,. Microsoft is aware of the issue and has posted a knowledgebase article about it. Have you read Microsoft article?
Symptoms Shortly after you start Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 on Mac OS X El Capitan (version 10.11), Outlook hangs when it tries to sync with the server. The Spinning Wait cursor is displayed, and the application status is displayed as “Not Responding.” Note: Outlook for Mac 2011 does not hang when you’re working offline or when no accounts are added. This issue occurs only when Outlook tries to sync an account with the server.
Workaround To work around this issue, run Outlook for Mac 2011 on Mac OS X Yosemite (version 10.10) or an earlier version. Happy to know that I need to use Mac OS X Yosemite (version 10.10) or an earlier version or to work offline or with no account configured! It makes sense for a messaging application!! What a great post on MS website! If I had to guess I’d say MS haven’t fixed this on purpose – Office 2016 is out and they want to try and force people to upgrade (more money for them!) – I’ve got Office 2016, but annoyingly Exchange is 2007, so I’m stuck – can’t upgrade to new version of Outlook cos it doesn’t support Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2011 isn’t working on El Capitan!
Good vicious circle there MS – now I remember why everything got moved to Apple. None of the work arounds above have worked so I’ve given up and fired up a VM with Yosemite on it and re-installed Outlook 2011 into that – not ideal but it saves flattening any of the Macs and it gets email going again. I operating with Mac Air (early 2014), with office 2011 14.5.5 and just did the upgrade to El Capitan late this morning and then my troubles started with Outlook freezing.
Tried the Shift method a number of times and that didn’t work, couldn’t locate where to change resolution, seems some of us don’t have the available. So resorted to web mail, which I hate. Then reread the thread and spotted KMC’s suggestion so tried that – it worked for me, no crashes after 2 hours of using Outlook!!! So as soon as you open outlook if your in sent, change to In and visa versa – all good so far. After trying “select low res” option – no go, the “select Sent folder on start up” – no go, “Work offline” – no go. Solution that worked for me for Outlook 2011 with Exchange serve X to El Capitan: 0. Quit ALL Office programs 1.
From Finder, navigate to Macintosh HD – Library – Preferences 2. Create a new folder, say, “microsoft prefs” 3. Select ALL the com.microsoft.plist files and drag/move to the folder from Step 2 4.
Open Outlook – you will be prompted to agree to license terms and asked for the product key. Enter a partial product key and press enter/return. Exit the nag message that the product key should be 25 characters long, then Force Quit (Command – Option – Escape) the Outlook product key verification program 5.
From Finder, move the com.microsoft.plist files from the folder created in Step 2 back to Library – Preferences 6. Restart Outlook and be patient – you are likely to see the the beachball BUT Outlook will sync with the server Normal service resumed! Hope it works for all of you! From two hours before my original post above to now – not a single Force Quit has been necessary.
Matt – create the folder under Preferences and move the com.microsoft.plist files files to the folder. Try holding down the Command button while dragging the plist files to the new folder. DC – Did you Command Q and exit all active Office apps? I looked up the Product Key for Office 2011 by opening Excel. It was only 20 characters long and missing the last 5 characters – I entered it anyway at Step 4.
If no nag, Force Quit what should be the only Outlook window. Matt and DC – Post back. I stumbled upon this “fix” which seems to have the same effect. I was looking for a way to recover my Notes (which cannot be recovered in Office 365) and I found my to /Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main Identity/Data Records, where the notes are kept, but unfortunately it is a binary file format.
I tried opening one of the Notes files with “Open in Outlook” and voila!, Outlook opened and it seems to be running well, and I can even quit Outlook and start it again. However, there is one problem, if I try to switch to Outlook by clicking the icon in my dock, Outlook hangs; I need to Force Quit it and open it again. But switching to it by command-Tabbing work fine. I tried to export the Outlook 2011 data into.olm so that can find a 3rd party.olm to.pst convertor but unfortunately Outlook 2011 got frozen there so I had to find another waybingofound a waydrag and drop any folder in Outlook 2011 to Mac desktop and it gets exported into an.mbox file.bigger folders take more time.then I purchased a 3rd party.mbox to.pst convertor with two week licence for 40 dollars and now on the path of conversion.
Already converted 3 or 4 main outlook folders. Outlook 2011 was amazing in indexing and keyboard shortcuts but was horrible in OLE, in-thread tables and various other things. I am done with Outlook 2011 but want to export rest of the data into.mbox and then convert to.pst and then import into Outlook 2016 in a VM windows 7 running on Macbook.phewwwww.
I really can’t understand the obsession with Outlook. I use it too and have for about 20 years even after switching to Mac from PC. The Mac has improved my throughput immensely. There is nothing magical about Outlook except perhaps for meetings. Simply set up your Mac Mail account with the same parameters as you PC Exchange account. All your email and folders populate in a few minutes. So do your contacts and calendars.
And for those who haven’t synched the Exchange account with a calendar app like Week Calendar on an iPhone, you get that too. Right in the Mac Calendar app. For those of you who have a archive PST that you use, you should have dragged the folders in that to the Exchange account a long time ago. Until then, you can occasionally peek at the folders when Outlook decides to remain up for 5 minutes or so (not very often tho’). At the very least, it’s a good temporary solution until pokey MS gets to fixing the Exchange server software or 2011, whichever. I’m using Exchange and IMAP accounts at the same time – several accounts and want them in one email system. Thanks to this issue I’m trilled to migrate to Mac Mail but this spinning wheel is coming back too often.
I was trying silly drag and drop folders one by one moving them from outlook 2011 to my desktop BUT Mac mail is CRASHING while I’m trying to import them. My dream now is to get all my emails to get out from outlook and get them work on Mac Mail. I would love to use Postbox since this one actually can import easily box files created by outlook BUT Postbox doesn’t support Exchange:-( Mac Mail looks like the only solution for me. Any alternative to Mac Mail that you can recommend? Well, I hope this helps someone.I repeatedly tried all the above suggestions without success until I did the following sequence. Restart Macbook 2. Unselected the low res + app nap (mine was selected from the previous attempts) 3.
Hold Shift, start outlook. WiFi was on so Outlook will attempt to connect and synch 4. Keep holding shift, quickly click between different folders 4-5 times. For example, Inbox – Drafts–Sent–Deleteddo this quickly before synch completes otherwise you’ll get spinning beach ball.
Keep holding shift, quit outlook (from the menu bar) 6. Restart mackbook 7. Select low res option in Outlook app 8. Start outlook as normal not really sure why this actually worked but it did, have been up and running for past hour. Hopefully will suffice until get real fix from Apple / MS.
Outlook freeze also with imap. You start oulook, it gets the emails, you can use it. You do something else, it is hang up, you have the nice wait wheel. It never comes back. You can stop force it to stop on right click in the app bar.
You restart it, it gets the emails and same same. I get the best way to use it is to stop it each time you have used it and restart it, each time you want your emails. About going to the apple mail app it seems to do even less than outlook, but I guess one can program it.
And there is no way that all my emails can stay on the imap server and no use too to have those years of archive on imap. I tried everything on my macbook pro retina mid-2014. I rebuilt my identity, did the shift-key trick (which sort of worked once or twice), set it to “low resolution” etc. None of these tricks worked on my personal mac. On my work Mac, I am resorting to a time machine restore of 10.5.5. Sorry, El Capitan, but 10.11 won’t be installed until an MS patch is issued for both 2011 and 2016. I even purchased an Office for Mac Home and Business 2016 for home but won’t install until that is fixed as well (or return as keycard not activated).
This is ridiculous. Both MS and Apple have been aware of this issue since the betalong before the gold master was issued. The crashes (Office 2016) and “spinning beach ball of death” (Outlook 2011/2016) were known well before the update was made available, but nothing was done about compatibility. I am stuck with Exchange Server for work, so it is the Outlook.com interface for now or nothing. Good thing my work machine will be restored in another 3 hours from Time Machine. Home/personal laptop?
I found a workaround online The successful action for me was:. Open Outlook and immediately go offline (top left – menu bar – select outlook and scroll down to Work Offline).
I kept it offline for about 10 minutes while I checked the account info and other preferences were okay (in particular, made sure Sync Services had nothing ticked, and it did not, so that wasn’t the problem). Then I went back to Online. And it worked – all my mails started coming in. It’s still working or last couple hours and no spinning wheel at all.
The status bar is the area at the bottom of the Word window that indicates information about the current document. It displays information about what page you are on, as well as your line number on the page and character number on the line. It also shows information about which editing toggles you have turned on. If you need more room to view a document, or you don't need the information provided by the status bar, you can turn it off. To control display of the status bar, follow these steps if you are using a version of Word prior to Word 2007:. Choose Options from the Tools menu.
Word displays the Options dialog box. Make sure the View tab is selected. (See Figure 1.) Figure 1.
The View tab of the Options dialog box. Click on the Status Bar check box.
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If there is a check mark in the check box, then the status bar will be displayed; no check mark means it will not. Click on OK. Unless I'm at cross-purposes with everyone (in which case, my apologies) I find it useful with modern widescreen monitors (16x9 aspect ratio) to have the Status Bar at the right hand side of the screen, at least form most applications where a very wide screen is not needed. If I'm not teaching 'granny to suck eggs', this is achieved by clicking on the space adjacent to the Start icon and dragging to the right hand side of the screen. The width of the new Status Bar can then be adjusted to suit one's needs. This results in a tidy grouping of current program icons with a table of open folders and files below.