I thought I read somewhere that as part of the update to Office 2011 for Mac when the new subscription version of Office 2013 was launched earlier this month it was now possible to add an IMAP version of Outlook.com / Hotmail / MSN accounts .  Previously only a POP version of these accounts could be used with the Mac version of Office because of the requirement for an "MSN connector" plug-in which has never been released for the Mac version of Outlook 2011.

Is my understanding correct and if so can someone give me the PRECISE settings required to enable me to add an Outlook.com email account to the "new' Outlook for Mac 2011.
I exported Outlook Contacts from Outlook 2010 (Win 7) as a .csv file, and no matter what I try, I just get blank Contacts listed. However, I can use the Contact Search functionality to find particular contacts, and the information is displayed normally in the Contact Search box. So how do I get the contact info to display in Contacts main window?

Here's how things look:
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My Macbook air, OSX v 10.7.5 running Office 2011 14.2.5 for Mac will not sync emails in my Inbox with our hosted Exchange Server. My other 2 x Windows machines are fine. The calendars and contacts seem to be OK. I have looked at the support forum and l rebuilt the database as suggested but it still does not sync. Does anyone have a solution? 
I am using Office 2011 for Mac and whenever I paste a URL into a message all of the text I type afterwards is underlined. I have to go back and undo the underlining of the rest of the message. Does anyone know of a fix or workaround?
Thanks,
C
I just got a new machine (Air) and downloaded Office 2011 for Mac.  I work for several different companies so setup identities for each client.  I need to do it this way, so that I can be certain that I do not send emails to people from the wrong email address.  That would be disastrous for me, and something I have done before, so I know the pain!

On my old machine (Pro) which also had Office 2011 for Mac, when I clicked on the Outlook icon the identities box came up and I choose which identity I needed to use.  I do this several times a day as I change company hats.  But I do not have this option now. I am not sure why it is not there, or if I need to download something extra.  

When I click on Outlook it just accesses the default email address.  And I know that to change default email addresses, I can hold down option, click on the Outlook icon, change the default email, close the identity dialogue box and then click on Outlook again to access the relevant email address, but you can imagine doing this several times a day is cumbersome.

Is there a way I can get the old configuration back of just automatically having the option to choose which identity I want to use when I click on Outlook?  The identity box that comes up does not have the option to always make it appear, so I am unsure what is wrong here.  Any help?

BTW, as an interim measure I setup separate users for each email address, and now flip between users using faster switching (or something like that), but this may still be problematic, because tools such as Evernote have had to be setup on each user profile, which is duplication of Evernote databases and therefore gobbling up storage which is extremely important on my Air machine.

Thanks for your consideration.
I have just purchased Office 2011 for Mac. I have an outlook.com webmail address that I want to access via this desktop application.

Having searched online I cannot believe what I read, that I cannot sync my existing email folders with my desktop version of Outlook? If this is the case then I guess I will have to set up a gmail account instead... but surely this cannot be true? Outlook will not synch with outlook.com ??

Any suggestions for how to get this to work would be much appreciated!
I use iCal exclusively and do not wish to switch to Outlook, having just downloaded Office 2011 for Mac. I can't find a way of removing Outlook from the dock and I would like advice on how to do so.  I would like to keep Work, Powerpoint and Excel in the dock as I use them.
Thank you,
JPS
I use Office for mac (version 14.2.4) running on Mountain Lion (version 10.8.2). Starting a couple of weeks ago I noticed Outlook repeatedly crashing, sometimes after starting/launching the program, or sometimes (most of the times) while trying to resend an email message. it just throws me away and tries to open again (followed by crashing again or not).

I do not believe I have changed anything, nor updated anything, giving a reason for crashing. A fact is that my database of emails (sent/received) is as big as 10 gigas given I work whith hundreds ofmclients who have,in my computers (one after the other, once I change model), their own Folder in which I archive their messages. In time the whole database (.pst / .olm) turn huge/heavy.

Questions to the Forum:

1. Is this problem usual?
2. Will it get worse?  up to now, it has been a little problem to me but I sorted out to live with it.
3. has Office 2011 CD (I do not have it anymore since I lost it while moving) a funtion called 'repair' or similar?
4. is there any other solution for this situation? 

Please help!

kind regards!


christian