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Microsoft Releases Office for Mac 2011 Update to Fix Outlook El Capitan Bug

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Microsoft today released an update for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, which fixes a significant Outlook bug that Office users ran into after upgrading to OS X El Capitan. After installing the new Apple operating system, many Outlook 2011 users found themselves unable to access their mail due to a syncing issue that caused the app to hang whenever it attempted to access the server.

Users were seeing a spinning Wait cursor whenever a sync was attempted and Outlook would become unresponsive, making it impossible to fetch new emails. The new 14.5.6 update should fix this problem for Outlook users who have installed OS X El Capitan and is a much better fix than Microsoft's previous workaround, which simply suggested users run OS X Yosemite.

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Though Microsoft has fixed one major bug OS X El Capitan users are running into, there are still problems with Office 2016. Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint 2016 are crashing for many users, preventing them from being used with OS X El Capitan.

Microsoft has said that it is working on a fix for Office 2016, but it has not given a timeline for when users can expect the issues to be solved.

Article Link: Microsoft Releases Office for Mac 2011 Update to Fix Outlook El Capitan Bug
 
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avanpelt

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Fixing the five year old software before you fix the current software? Well, that's just genius. :confused:
 
jonfarr

jonfarr

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people that are on capital and update 2011 please report back and let us know if this solves the issue!
 
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Ki&Mi

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Greeting All, Mac Office 14.5.6 - just updated, works well on El Capitan. All good so far.
 
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iVoid

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Well, Office 2011 on ElCap now doesn't hang when downloading/syncing, but it seems to keep a 'download' process running in the status window all the time now even after it seems to have synced the whole mailbox. Have to do some more testing...
 
DragoniteD

DragoniteD

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mwxiao said:
Bigger news, Office 2016 is available for Home Use Program for $9.95 starting today...
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I have an even bigger news: iWork is free for both home & business use with great time machine feature (can go back to any previous saved version) since 2 years ago
 
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Peepo

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avanpelt said:
Fixing the five year old software before you fix the current software? Well, that's just genius. :confused:
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So if they would have fixed new software first then people could have said they were forcing them to upgrade.
 
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Grid

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It is all fixed for me and seems rock solid now. Can't believe my stupidity in installing a new OS without checking compatibility of critical software. It was good of MS to fix this so quickly in software that is not the current version. I guess they had to take it seriously since so many of us are forced to use Outlook 2011 because we are on Exchange Server 2007. I don't say this often, but thanks Microsoft! Should have been done while El Cap was in beta but much better late than never.
 
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