[OSX-Users] Outlook 11 Problems

[Hugh C Davis]

Dear Mac folks.

I use Outlook 11 as my email/calendar client.

Please do not give me grief about this. I HATE the package, and it does seem daft to own a range of excellent Apple hardware and then run Microsoft software on them!  But I find there are a number of things that simply are not implemented in the Mac  offerings mainly that I have to use often as the result of lots of work with people in the Uni centre.

So – I have some real issues and I cannot find anything on-line to help…


  1.  I spend my entire time looking at the beach ball. If I look at next email or try to switch to calendar view I get enough time to load up Activity Monitor and see that Outlook is not responding while using 100% of one of my processors. Mayve 10 seconds per change. This is impossible – any suggestions? E.g. I do have a very large mailbox – but I do not dare archive them – I often have to search to find old stuff.
  2.  Things I put in using iCal or on my iPhone simply do not appear in Outlook. I look at OWA, and they are there, and they appear in all my Apple calendars – but not in Outlook. There is no way make outlook see these entries other than to delete the calendar on outlook and then re-load it (takes an hour or so).   Surely this must just be me – if this was happening to everyone else the forums would be full of it and they are not….???


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