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Outlook 2011 for Mac

deletedover 9 years

Hey all,

This is my first time posting about email on the site. I have a bit of an issue and was hoping you guys could help.

Anyone know how to change the intervals that outlook syncs with gmail folders? One of my colleagues has a ton of stuff in his outlook and since it syncs so often with gmail, it slows him down tremendously and makes it frustrating to send email.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Many severe thanks,

modsrthefkers

over 9 years
Outlook has never played nice with Gmail since Exchange was dropped. Choose one or the other.

If you're using Outlook for non-working use then just use a web client.
over 9 years

emperorschance says

i remember one time i was going through their troubleshoot wizard to find out why i couldnt connect to the internet and they told me "make sure theres no microwave near your router". wtf


lmfao
deletedover 9 years
i remember one time i was going through their troubleshoot wizard to find out why i couldnt connect to the internet and they told me "make sure theres no microwave near your router". wtf
deletedover 9 years
hahaha, theres actually a button for dial-up connection. i love microsoft.
over 9 years
lmao It's so cluttered.
deletedover 9 years
Yeah it was mostly at this:

"Yeah my colleague is in his thirties and is clinging to outlook because he likes the interface more"
over 9 years
It's just because we use Microsoft Exchange for our email servers. I only have my work account on it, so I'm fine with it honestly.
deletedover 9 years

Togepi says

Actually I lied.




Why anyone would enjoy using that is beyond me.
over 9 years
I'm assuming you go to preferences and check out the send/receive section
over 9 years
And I'm 26 and use Outlook because I am forced to not because I want to.
over 9 years
Actually I lied.

over 9 years

MODSRTHEFKERS says

Things I was hired to do:

Schedule interviews

Things I do:

Outlook 2011 for Mac troubleshooting
Benefits
Payroll
Train the office manager on a job I wasn't trained on
Schedule interviews
Golf


Wow sounds like me.
deletedover 9 years
In theory you should just be able to delete the entire _saved_ account from the Mac and it'll have nothing to sync with.
over 9 years
bronto i think you're looking at this problem the wrong way.

instead of seeing it as an issue that needs to be fixed, look at it as an opportunity to convince your friend that now is the time to stop using a bad piece of software like outlook and get used to the modern way of doing things. they will then later in the century think "man, if not for dan i'd still be using outlook 2011 for mac"
deletedover 9 years
Things I was hired to do:

Schedule interviews

Things I do:

Outlook 2011 for Mac troubleshooting
Benefits
Payroll
Train the office manager on a job I wasn't trained on
Schedule interviews
Golf
deletedover 9 years
Yeah I would need to borrow his computer to figure it out. I kinda got stuck in this IT role with my company even though I have no idea what I'm doing
over 9 years
too niche 3 me. i'd have to look at it and tinker around with it to find it myself
deletedover 9 years
Also google doesn't want you to use outlook for gmail!
deletedover 9 years
Sanctify because google isn't helping my resolve this niche issue
deletedover 9 years
I think part of the larger problem is that tech companies think it's necessary to give everyone macs when it's largely inconveniebt
over 9 years
Most likely he can set up manual syncs. Why not just google it
deletedover 9 years
Yeah dude outlook blows. Who needs clunky software when you can use internet mail??
deletedover 9 years
Thanks arcbell I appreciate it. Yeah my colleague is in his thirties and is clinging to outlook because he likes the interface more, even though we use a gmail server for work. Ultimately he ends up with sluggish email that is a pain to fix because there is zero info on outlook 2011 for mac
over 9 years

MODSRTHEFKERS says

I'm asking for a friend.


if anything i gained respect for you from the fact that you felt the need to clarify that it was for a friend so that people did not think you yourself used outlook.
over 9 years

MODSRTHEFKERS says

Does anyone under the age of 30 use outlook? Serious question


yea i was gonna say "don't use outlook 2011 for mac, just use gmail" but you said serious question so i felt like that'd be a dink move. however, with this recent post i now feel like i can make the post i want to make and still stay out of dink territory