Roger Fingas
Microsoft on Wednesday released an Office for Mac 2011 update to fix a major bug with OS X El Capitan, which previously prevented users from reading email in Outlook.
The update, v14.5.6, can be fetched directly from the Microsoft Download Center. The Outlook glitch is the only problem addressed by the software, which requires that people already have at least v14.1.0.
After upgrading to El Capitan, some Outlook 2011 users discovered that the app would fail to sync properly. In fact the app would hang and stop responding, making email inaccessible for those people outside of using webmail, switching to another client, or downgrading to OS X Yosemite.
Microsoft is still working on El Capitan compatibility problems with Office for Mac 2016. Many people have been experiencing crashes with the 2016 apps, potentially rendering them useless and once again forcing people to downgrade.
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Who still uses outlook?
What about Office 2016? Hope that fix is on the way soon because I'm running Office for Windows in a VM until they stop the Mac version crashing every 10 minutes. Thankfully Parallels have done a great job with their latest release.
A go[quote name="pigybank" url="/t/188790/new-office-for-mac-2011-update-fixes-outlook-sync-bug-with-os-x-el-capitan#post_2787417"]Who still uses outlook?[/quote] Anyone with work email that requires full Exchange functionality, for starters.
Microsoft keeps telling users in the forums that you should not update your underlying software until you know your key applications are working properly. So it is our fault that their app is crashing and is unusable. I tried holding off upgrading from XP but they discontinued support before having a working replacement.:-)