[OSX-Users] Re: Office 2016 for Mac now available

[Hugh Davis]

Oh dear.

I have been trying to use  new version of Outlook that they have been testing for some time.  At some particular new version number it stopped working.  When you start it the dialog comes up that asks you to enter your password (and to store it in your key chain).  You enter your passwords and it very quickly does connect and refresh, but then immediately the dialog re-appears asking you to log in again - however many times you try.  So although it has up to date contents you can never actually get to use it as you can’t get past the dialog.  If you press cancel it crashes while using 96% of all available processor.  This has been going on for me for weeks so I have been using Office 2011 Outlook.  

Jules had suggested to me that the problem might be due to some interference with Old Office - so I carefully followed the instructions to remove all Office 2011 and hoped the full release would cure the problem.  But it does not and I'm back to using Windoze :-(

Anyone got any ideas?  Is anyone else out there actually using the new Outlook and getting it to work with our exchange server?  Is it just me?

/h.

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-----Original Message-----
From: osx-users-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:osx-users-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Hugh Glaser
Sent: 07 August 2015 18:48
To: List for users of Mac OS X <osx-users at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: [OSX-Users] Re: Office 2016 for Mac now available

Wow.
I’m pretty certain it is much faster than 2011.
Or it might be that I did take the trouble to throw all the cruft away for the old installations.
And not so different either, which is good.

> On 7 Aug 2015, at 09:30, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Just to note that the "Standard" version also contains OneNote, so they are apparently the same products (though the licensing and activation methods are very different, you're limited to 5 devices for the Office365 version).
> 
> Jules.
> 
> On 05/08/2015 18:44, Julian Field wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> You can now get your paws on Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac.
>> Compatibility with the PC version has improved quite a bit. All the nice menus are all still there.
>> 
>> There are 2 different versions available.
>> 
>> 1. The "Standard" version (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, as far as I know) which you can install on any University-owned machine. It does not require any licence code or activation key, download it from here:
>>    
>> http://www.software.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Staff%20%26%20PGR/Microsoft/mac/
>> 
>> 2. The "Professional Plus" (also contains OneNote) which you can install on your *own* machines, including home computers. This will activate itself. You should start here, login with your iSolutions username/password and then click on the words "Office 365" at the top:
>>    http://go.soton.ac.uk/365login
>> 
>> BIG NOTE: This will not touch your installation of Office 2011 or any other previous version. If you want to remove 2011, I *strongly* recommend you do so BEFORE installing 2016, as the removal process is completely manual and much more difficult if both versions are present. Microsoft's list of steps are here:
>>    https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/2398768
>> 
>> If you still have Office 2008 installed, then I would remove that first too. The steps are here:
>>    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2500821
>> 
>> Jules
>> 
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>> 
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> 
> Jules
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