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Outlook 2011
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Please send us feedback about how this impacts you and what you'll do about it. For example, as a workaround, I would recommend setting up a half-hour recurring meeting at the times when you won't be available.
codymac said:
If you are the owner of the meeting, then when you make any changes to the meeting, you'll get a dialog asking you if you want to send this out to anyone.
If you aren't the owner of the meeting, then when you make changes to the meeting, you'll get a dialog notifying you that you're only making changes to your local copy and thus will be out-of-sync with the meeting owner.
jon08 said:
No. Sorry.
Again, send us feedback about this. Regards,
Nadyne.
No. Sorry.
Regards,
Nadyne.
Ok, I just did. On a side note: why does importing the folder with Custom Emoticons not work for Messenger 8.0? In fact, I initially did not do anything but installed Office 2011 alongside my Office 2008, but Messenger 8.0 failed to recognize my Custom Emoticons from scratch. I then uninstalled 2008, hoping it would fix the problem, but to no avail. Any ideas?
We have a working environment with exchange on the windows side with OWA together with sharepoint and will keep using that. Software should help me better my day and solve MY problems.
Your workarounds brings a cost that can not be allowed.
Please send us feedback about how this impacts you and what you'll do about it. For example, as a workaround, I would recommend setting up a half-hour recurring meeting at the times when you won't be available.
No. Sorry.
Regards,
Nadyne.
You should update the page that link points to....Outlook isn't even one of the choices....what are we supposed to enter so it doesn't go to the bit-bucket? If we put Entourage - the people that review feedback (if there are any) will say "who cares about an Entourage comment - Outlook is almost here".
I was going to post the same thing, but remember that Office, and thus Outlook, has not even been officially released yet. 17 days to go, hence I guess no Outlook option yet...
I chose Entourage 2008 but stated in the body that I was talking about Outlook 2011.
.pst and .olm
the .pst thing and .olm thing are nutty.
.pst can be imported and then it shows like in windows outlook 2007,2010 etc. but then there is no way to export.
I tried the .olm route. after 10 minutes of whatever it was doing....it looks the same. But it never removed anything from exchange server.
My work has 1 GB limit so I have to have an archiving option. All help and MS websites exhausted as I do not think they have caught up to there release.
I really wish they would just COPY everything from office for windows 2010....into mac. I mean why get creative when all people want is a windows/mac to work seamless in enterprise.
What is the proper way to archive without compression in Office for mac 2011?
the .pst thing and .olm thing are nutty.
.pst can be imported and then it shows like in windows outlook 2007,2010 etc. but then there is no way to export.
I tried the .olm route. after 10 minutes of whatever it was doing....it looks the same. But it never removed anything from exchange server.
My work has 1 GB limit so I have to have an archiving option. All help and MS websites exhausted as I do not think they have caught up to there release.
I really wish they would just COPY everything from office for windows 2010....into mac. I mean why get creative when all people want is a windows/mac to work seamless in enterprise.
What is the proper way to archive without compression in Office for mac 2011?
Outlook 2011 Window won't come up
So today was my first day using Outlook 2011. Definite Upgrade from Entourage, but left a lot to be desired (including 4 crashes in one day)
Anyway, I tried to import a PST file. It crashed and when I start it back up, I can't get the Main Window to come up. I even go to File->New->Open New Main Window and still no luck. I have tried re-installing but no luck there either.
Any thoughts on how to fix this, or how to reset Outlook so that it does not have any settings? Dead in the water right now.
So today was my first day using Outlook 2011. Definite Upgrade from Entourage, but left a lot to be desired (including 4 crashes in one day)
Anyway, I tried to import a PST file. It crashed and when I start it back up, I can't get the Main Window to come up. I even go to File->New->Open New Main Window and still no luck. I have tried re-installing but no luck there either.
Any thoughts on how to fix this, or how to reset Outlook so that it does not have any settings? Dead in the water right now.
My workday technically starts the same as yours but it never bothered me. I tried to think how it should bother me and I can't seem to think of a reason. What if a person starts at 10:35 or 8:50? It isn't a clock punch machine but it is just a calendar. Maybe Microsoft Project it would matter but not with a calendar and day planner.
It's a hard coded dropdown list....how hard would it be to add the 1/2 hours to it? Answer: NOT VERY
It's also available *ahem* elsewhere.
I really don't know why people use office tho. From my experience of it on the macs at my college it's slow, buggy, likes to crash and a bloody minefield to work out. Seriously, unless compatibility absolutely needs to be 100% (even tho it isn't with office 2008 quite a lot of the time), I don't know why people just don't use iWork, iCal and Mail. I've been using them with 0 performance issues and only a handful minor compatibility problems with iWork.
Anyway... I don't mean to derail the thread.
Outlook Question
If you are not using Exchange, is there anything with Outlook 2011 that would make it a better email client than Mac Mail? I can't seem to find a review on it that tells me anything that I can't find out from Microsoft's Mac page.
I will continue to use iCal and Address book since those are system wide services that work with Mobile Me and many third party apps. I just want to know if Mail component is better with Outlook 2011.
If you are not using Exchange, is there anything with Outlook 2011 that would make it a better email client than Mac Mail? I can't seem to find a review on it that tells me anything that I can't find out from Microsoft's Mac page.
I will continue to use iCal and Address book since those are system wide services that work with Mobile Me and many third party apps. I just want to know if Mail component is better with Outlook 2011.
No resend in Outlook - just how dim can Microsoft get?
I cannot believe that they have issued the final version without a resend button/menu item. I sent a message in error (Outlook had not brought across my default account from Entourage) from the wrong email address to a company, which I know only accepts emails from my registered address. Forward is not the answer. It is a weak work around. Outlook is not retaining display preferences for view panel.
I also don't like the page switcher at the bottom left of the screen. On my MBP 13" that means that not all my mail boxes have room to display and I have to scroll up and down. There is plenty of space to have this on the top bar but that is not an option. For small screens, you cannot drag the bar between the message list and the view panel over to the left far enough.
All in all about 3 out of 10 is my score for it. I note that Mactopia are not accepting new registrations at the moment. Maybe their server is overloaded by people wanting to complain. This is a program that was not yet ready for release. I am considering asking for my money back and reverting to Office 2008.
Wilson
I cannot believe that they have issued the final version without a resend button/menu item. I sent a message in error (Outlook had not brought across my default account from Entourage) from the wrong email address to a company, which I know only accepts emails from my registered address. Forward is not the answer. It is a weak work around. Outlook is not retaining display preferences for view panel.
I also don't like the page switcher at the bottom left of the screen. On my MBP 13" that means that not all my mail boxes have room to display and I have to scroll up and down. There is plenty of space to have this on the top bar but that is not an option. For small screens, you cannot drag the bar between the message list and the view panel over to the left far enough.
All in all about 3 out of 10 is my score for it. I note that Mactopia are not accepting new registrations at the moment. Maybe their server is overloaded by people wanting to complain. This is a program that was not yet ready for release. I am considering asking for my money back and reverting to Office 2008.
Wilson
Just experienced the same problem and tried all your steps but no luck. I sure hope someone can suggest something
Outlook Main Window Not Showing
to answer someone's question above, if during an import, or during any kind of export corruption there is only one way to see the main window once again which seems to be hidden even if outlook is running.
You must delete the identity and everything within that identity.
It is the links to the database (mac 2011's version of the .pst file) and the database itself that gets corrupted.
Location of identity is in system disk / users / (username) / documents / Microsoft user data / office 2011 identities / (identity name)
1. Close outlook
2. Del the whole folder and then purge trash
3. Reboot and then open outlook once again and it will create a new directory
This happens mostly when importing .pst files.
Apple mail, eudora, entourage seem fine when importing and do not, for the most part, corrupt the database and identity links.
to answer someone's question above, if during an import, or during any kind of export corruption there is only one way to see the main window once again which seems to be hidden even if outlook is running.
You must delete the identity and everything within that identity.
It is the links to the database (mac 2011's version of the .pst file) and the database itself that gets corrupted.
Location of identity is in system disk / users / (username) / documents / Microsoft user data / office 2011 identities / (identity name)
1. Close outlook
2. Del the whole folder and then purge trash
3. Reboot and then open outlook once again and it will create a new directory
This happens mostly when importing .pst files.
Apple mail, eudora, entourage seem fine when importing and do not, for the most part, corrupt the database and identity links.
So far looks like a great 1.0 release for Outlook, there are plenty more years left(For version numbers ) to take the foundations of this new Outlook and built a very feature rich application.
Just a little question for nadyne, are you planning on taking the iOS MSN Messenger features (nudges, offline messaging) over to the desktop version. Im not sure of your exact set up but my Cocoa applications share many classes between iOS and Mac OS.
) to take the foundations of this new Outlook and built a very feature rich application. Just a little question for nadyne, are you planning on taking the iOS MSN Messenger features (nudges, offline messaging) over to the desktop version. Im not sure of your exact set up but my Cocoa applications share many classes between iOS and Mac OS.
Short answer is no. I use Entourage because I work in an office where everyone else uses Outlook. I tried to use Mail, but for some reason it has trouble rendering the rich text messages sent from the folks using outlook. I find that strange since Mail on my iphone does a heck of a lot better job rendering those messages.
Of course I can't speak for Outlook 2011. I won't be getting that software since we still use Exchange server 2003, which Outlook2011 doesn't support.
Um-m-m-m, no. Outlook 2011 is Outlook 14.0.0. In terms of development, it is a rename and minor feature upgrade to Entourage 2008 EWS, aka Entourage 13.0.7.So far looks like a great 1.0 release for Outlook, there are plenty more years left(For version numbers
Hmm so this changes that there are plenty of version numbers left for improvements be they represented in year or number...
It's really a version 1.0 app. It's a re-write of Entourage and lacks many features that Entourage had. Outlook feels like a beta. I wouldn't recommend it over Entourage. Maybe after a few service packs it may be useable but right now our organisation can't use Office 2011 because of Outlook lacking features.
You make a huge assumption is assuming that Outlook will improve with age. Very few Office 2008 users will argue that it was better than Office 2004. For many of us, Entourage 13.0 was not better than Entourage 12.0. In my case, Entourage 13.0 was less than worthless. The bottomline is that there is no guarantee that any subsequent version of Outlook will be better than Outlook 14.0.0.