Pros: #1- Microsoft Outlook organize email, calendar and flies. To makes office work easy. #2- Microsoft Outlook can be integrated with the Slack app. #3- Calander can add events and reminders from upcoming events. #4- It categorizes emails as per priorities. Cons: #1- Nothing to dislike about Microsoft Outlook. We are happy using with Slack app. Based on your statement, if your account is through AOL, it is confirmed that Outlook users with AOL accounts cannot synchronize emails since September 2018, which is for a change in the AOL service. To mitigate the issue, you can try two methods: Rename folders. Go to Outlook and note which folders are under inbox.
Microsoft has plugged some key gaps in its 'new Outlook' for macOS, currently in preview and given a fresh update just a few days ago, but the product still has puzzling omissions that drive users back to the old version.
Microsoft Outlook For Mac 2011
The revised Mac Outlook was first revealed at the Ignite event in late 2019. It appears to be a complete rebuild of the Mac email client, geared towards Office 365, but the question administrators will be pondering is whether important features in the existing Outlook will ever appear in the new one.
The history of Outlook on the Mac is inglorious. Microsoft and Mac go back a long way. Excel, for example, was a Mac application two years before it appeared on Windows. When it came to Outlook though, Mac users lost out. Outlook on Windows goes back to 1997, but the first full Mac version did not appear until Outlook 2011, and even that was not very good, slower than the Windows version and missing some features, such as Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
VBA has never come to Outlook on the Mac, but a 2014 release was much improved, as Microsoft began to push the idea of Office 365 everywhere rather than keeping users hooked on Windows.
The new Outlook for the Mac in its first preview (click to enlarge)
Camerabag photo 3 1 00 1000. Fast-forward to today, and there is not that much missing in Outlook 365 for Mac versus Windows, VBA aside.
All that is set to change with the latest new Outlook Mac as the pendulum swings away from making the Mac Outlook close to the Windows one, and towards giving Mac users a more distinct experience. It is also a matter of protocols. The existing Outlook Mac uses Exchange Web Services (EWS) which is being phased out.
Outlook on Windows generally uses MAPI over HTTP, perhaps the nearest thing to a native Exchange protocol. Microsoft is not happy with either and for its 'modern' mail client in Windows 8 and Windows 10 it developed a new sync protocol. In the past this was sometimes called Hx but it seems now to go by the name Microsoft Sync.
When Microsoft acquired Accompli in 2014, whose product became Outlook Mobile, it used its own protocol but that too now uses Microsoft Sync. According to presentations at Ignite 2019, this new sync protocol is designed specifically for mail-related data and makes the best even of poor connections, prioritising recent data.
The move from EWS to Microsoft Sync enables new features and improved performance, and no longer downloads the entire mailbox to the local machine. System requirements are for macOS 10.14 Mojave and Office 365, Outlook.com or Gmail email accounts.
The snag with a rebuilt Outlook for Mac is that having nearly caught up with Windows Outlook, it is now far behind in terms of features. It is in preview and some will reappear, but it is unlikely to be the full set. Best game to play in the casino. It hardly qualifies as a mail client in its current incarnation, with no support for standard protocols like POP3 and IMAP, nor any way of connecting to on-premises Exchange.
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READ MORE'We don't support on-prem yet but it's going to come soon,' said Microsoft in November 2019; six months on it is not there yet. On the plus side, it not only looks pretty, with full support for the Mac's Dark Mode on Catalina, but also performs well, with a fluidity that frankly feels unusual in a Mac Outlook product.
Features of the new Outlook for Mac include a new unified inbox view that avoids clicking between accounts, if you have several configured. You can now reply to emails inline ('nested compose'), a convenience feature that has been in Windows Outlook for some time. There is a new 'ignore conversation' option. Creating meetings uses a new simplified dialogue that you can expand as needed.
As for the new features added in the June update, these include add-in support (a big deal), sensitivity labels for classifying confidential data, a People view for managing contacts, an option to create an event directly from an email, read receipts, and a 'coming soon' promise of the ability to open shared calendars and to encrypt emails with S/MIME.
The actual preview release did not quite live up to the promise. In particular, the People view is not yet enabled, thanks to some last-minute bug that was discovered. One gets the new Outlook by signing up to the Office 'Insider Fast' channel, and after the new version downloads and installs, one can switch back and forth by toggling a 'New Outlook' switch. If the user attempts to use a feature such as the People view, a message pops up inviting the user to switch back, wrecking the fluid experience but that is what one gets for trying a preview.
The current preview is not fully usable, but fortunately switching back is quick
The problem of Outlook on Windows being different from Outlook on Mac will get worse
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The new Outlook for the Mac in its first preview (click to enlarge)
Camerabag photo 3 1 00 1000. Fast-forward to today, and there is not that much missing in Outlook 365 for Mac versus Windows, VBA aside.
All that is set to change with the latest new Outlook Mac as the pendulum swings away from making the Mac Outlook close to the Windows one, and towards giving Mac users a more distinct experience. It is also a matter of protocols. The existing Outlook Mac uses Exchange Web Services (EWS) which is being phased out.
Outlook on Windows generally uses MAPI over HTTP, perhaps the nearest thing to a native Exchange protocol. Microsoft is not happy with either and for its 'modern' mail client in Windows 8 and Windows 10 it developed a new sync protocol. In the past this was sometimes called Hx but it seems now to go by the name Microsoft Sync.
When Microsoft acquired Accompli in 2014, whose product became Outlook Mobile, it used its own protocol but that too now uses Microsoft Sync. According to presentations at Ignite 2019, this new sync protocol is designed specifically for mail-related data and makes the best even of poor connections, prioritising recent data.
The move from EWS to Microsoft Sync enables new features and improved performance, and no longer downloads the entire mailbox to the local machine. System requirements are for macOS 10.14 Mojave and Office 365, Outlook.com or Gmail email accounts.
The snag with a rebuilt Outlook for Mac is that having nearly caught up with Windows Outlook, it is now far behind in terms of features. It is in preview and some will reappear, but it is unlikely to be the full set. Best game to play in the casino. It hardly qualifies as a mail client in its current incarnation, with no support for standard protocols like POP3 and IMAP, nor any way of connecting to on-premises Exchange.
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READ MORE'We don't support on-prem yet but it's going to come soon,' said Microsoft in November 2019; six months on it is not there yet. On the plus side, it not only looks pretty, with full support for the Mac's Dark Mode on Catalina, but also performs well, with a fluidity that frankly feels unusual in a Mac Outlook product.
Features of the new Outlook for Mac include a new unified inbox view that avoids clicking between accounts, if you have several configured. You can now reply to emails inline ('nested compose'), a convenience feature that has been in Windows Outlook for some time. There is a new 'ignore conversation' option. Creating meetings uses a new simplified dialogue that you can expand as needed.
As for the new features added in the June update, these include add-in support (a big deal), sensitivity labels for classifying confidential data, a People view for managing contacts, an option to create an event directly from an email, read receipts, and a 'coming soon' promise of the ability to open shared calendars and to encrypt emails with S/MIME.
The actual preview release did not quite live up to the promise. In particular, the People view is not yet enabled, thanks to some last-minute bug that was discovered. One gets the new Outlook by signing up to the Office 'Insider Fast' channel, and after the new version downloads and installs, one can switch back and forth by toggling a 'New Outlook' switch. If the user attempts to use a feature such as the People view, a message pops up inviting the user to switch back, wrecking the fluid experience but that is what one gets for trying a preview.
The current preview is not fully usable, but fortunately switching back is quick
The problem of Outlook on Windows being different from Outlook on Mac will get worse
Microsoft has not specified a release date for the new Outlook Mac but a few things are clear. First, it will be the best Outlook yet, perhaps on any platform, in terms of appearance and design. This is not a high bar: Outlook on Windows is a mess from a user interface perspective, and has dialogues buried within that have not changed for decades. Performance also looks promising.
Second, Outlook Mac will be focused on cloud, especially Office 365, though it also already has good support for Google mail. Teams integration will also be strong and Microsoft has demonstrated features like converting an event to a Teams meeting, handy in times of lockdown.
Lastly, the problem of Outlook on Windows being different from Outlook on Mac will get worse. What if Microsoft replaces the Windows version with a similarly rebuilt product? Perhaps it will; but the difficulty is that Outlook is baked into the Windows ecosystem and forms part of workflows, some automated with COM technology, that will break if Microsoft replaces it. Custom add-ins, VBA projects, ancient APIs that remain for legacy reasons, all mean this will be a tricky application to replace.
Creating a meeting in the new Outlook Mac: just drag in the calendar and this simple dialog pops up
Outlook on Windows is perhaps the most annoying of Microsoft's Office products, yet the job it does is a critical one, bringing together email, calendar and tasks, and providing collaboration features like shared calendars and contacts. Some legacy features, like Exchange public folders, made their way into Office 365 where they have become something of a burden to Microsoft.
The new Outlook for Mac, when it comes out of preview, will represent Microsoft's current thinking on how Outlook should look and behave in the cloud era, but it will be some time before that can apply in Windows as well. ®
| 1. The following table shows frequently used shortcuts in Outlook 2016 for Mac. | |
|---|---|
| ⌘+S | Save an item |
| ⌘+P | Print an item |
| ⌘+Z | Undo the last action |
| ⌘+Y | Redo the last action |
| ⌘+M | Minimize the active window |
| ⌘+Shift+N | Create a new folder in the navigation pane |
| ⌘+N | Create new email (in Mail view) |
| ⌘+ (Backslash) | Hide the reading pane or show it on the right |
| ⌘+Shift+ (Backslash) | Hide the reading pane or show it below |
| ⌘+Shift+M | Move the selected item to a different folder |
| ⌘+Shift+C | Copy the selected item to a different folder |
| ⌘+A | Select all items in the item list, if the item list is the active pane |
| ⌘+Option+R | Minimize or expand the ribbon |
| ⌘+H | Hide Outlook |
| ⌘+Q | Quit Outlook |
| Fn+Fn | Start dictation |
| ⌘+Ctrl+' ' (Spacebar) | Insert emoji |
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| 2. Work in windows and dialogs | |
|---|---|
| ⌘+1 | Go to Mail view |
| ⌘+2 | Go to Calendar view |
| ⌘+3 | Go to Contacts view |
| ⌘+4 | Go to Tasks view |
| ⌘+5 | Go to Notes view |
| ⌘+7 | Open the Sync Status window or make it the active window |
| ⌘+8 | Open the Sync Errors or make it the active window |
| ⌘+0 (Zero) | Open the Contacts Search window |
| ⌘+, (Comma) | Open the Outlook Preferences dialog box |
| ⌘+~ (Tilde) | Cycle forward through open windows |
| ⌘+Shift+~ (Tilde) | Cycle back through open windows |
| ⌘+W | Close the active window |
| ⌘+O | Open the selected item |
| Tab | Move forward through controls in a window |
| Shift+Tab | Move back through controls in a window |
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| 3. Send and receive mail | |
|---|---|
| ⌘+N | Create a new message |
| ⌘+Return | Send the open message |
| ⌘+K | Send all messages in the Outbox and receive all incoming messages |
| ⌘+Shift+K | Send all the messages in the Outbox |
| ⌘+S | Save the open message and store it in the Drafts folder |
| ⌘+E | Add an attachment to the open message |
| ⌘+: (Colon) | Open the Spelling and Grammar dialog box |
| ⌘+Ctrl+C | Check recipient names in the open messages |
| ⌘+R | Reply to the sender of the message or, if the message is from a mailing list, reply to the mailing list |
| ⌘+Shift+R | Reply to all |
| ⌘+J | Forward the message |
| ⌘+O | Open the selected message in a separate window |
| ⌘+Option+' (Apostrophe) | Clear the flag for the selected message |
| ⌘+Shift+J | Mark the selected message as junk mail |
| ⌘+Shift+Option+J | Mark the selected message as not junk mail |
| Ctrl+ (Opening Bracket) | Display the previous message |
| Shift+Ctrl+ (Closing Bracket) | Display the next message |
| Ctrl+ (Opening Bracket) | Navigate to the previous pane in the Mail view |
| Shift+Ctrl+ (Closing Bracket) | Navigate to the next pane in the Mail view |
| ⌘+Shift+M | Move the selected message to a folder |
| ⌘+- (Hyphen) | Decrease the display size of text in an open message or in the reading pane |
| ⌘++ (Plus Sign) | Increase the display size of text in an open message or in the reading pane |
| ' ' (Spacebar) | Scroll down to the next screen of text or, if you are at the end of a message, display the next message |
| Shift+' ' (Spacebar) | Scroll up to the previous screen of text or, if you are at the beginning of a message, display the previous message |
| Delete | Delete the selected message |
| Shift+Delete | Permanently delete the selected message |
| ⌘+Delete | Delete the current message, and, if the message window is open, close it |
| ⌘+T | Mark selected messages as read |
| ⌘+Shift+T | Mark selected messages as unread |
| ⌘+Option+T | Mark all messages in a folder as read |
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| 4. Use Search | |
|---|---|
| ⌘+Option+F | Search current folder |
| ⌘+Shift+F | Do an advanced search in Outlook (add Item Contains filter for searching) |
| ⌘+F | Find text within an item |
| ⌘+G | Find the next instance of the text you searched for in an item |
| ⌘+Shift+G | Find the previous instance of the text you searched for in an item |
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| 5. Use the Calendar | |
|---|---|
| ⌘+2 | Open the Calendar window |
| ⌘+N | Create a new appointment |
| ⌘+O | Open the selected calendar event |
| Delete | Delete the calendar event |
| ⌘+T | Switch the view to include today |
| ⌘+Arrow Left | In Day view, move to the previous day. In Week and Work Week views, move to the previous week. In Month view, move to the previous month. |
| ⌘+Arrow Right | In Day view, move to the next day. In Week and Work Week views, move to the next week. In Month view, move to the next month. |
| Shift+Ctrl+ (Opening Bracket) | Navigate to the previous pane in the Calendar view |
| Shift+Ctrl+ (Closing Bracket) | Navigate to the next pane in the Calendar view |
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| 6. Work with people and contacts | |
|---|---|
| ⌘+N | Create a new contact |
| ⌘+O | Open the selected contact |
| Delete | Delete the contact |
| Ctrl+ (Opening Bracket) | Close the current open contact and open the previous contact |
| Ctrl+ (Closing Bracket) | Close the current open contact and open the next contact |
| Shift+Ctrl+ (Opening Bracket) | Navigate to the previous pane in the People view |
| Shift+Ctrl+ (Closing Bracket) | Navigate to the next pane in the People view |
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| 7. Manage tasks | |
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| ⌘+4 | Move to the Task window |
| ⌘+N | Create a new task |
| ⌘+O | Open the selected task |
| Delete | Delete the task |
| Ctrl+ (Opening Bracket) | Close the current open task and open the previous task in the Tasks list |
| Ctrl+ (Closing Bracket) | Close the current open task and open the next task in the Tasks list |
| Shift+Ctrl+ (Opening Bracket) | Navigate to the previous pane in the Tasks view |
| Shift+Ctrl+ (Closing Bracket) | Navigate to the next pane in the Tasks view |
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| 8. Use notes | |
|---|---|
| ⌘+5 | Move to the Notes window |
| ⌘+N | Create a new note |
| ⌘+O | Open the selected note |
| Delete | Delete the note |
| Ctrl+ (Opening Bracket) | Close the current open note and open the previous note in the Notes list |
| Ctrl+ (Closing Bracket) | Close the current open note and open the next note in the Notes list |
| Shift+Ctrl+ (Opening Bracket) | Navigate to the previous pane in the Notes view |
| Shift+Ctrl+ (Closing Bracket) | Navigate to the next pane in the Notes view |
| ⌘+J | Send a note as an email |
| ⌘+Ctrl+J | Send a note as an HTML attachment to an email. First place the focus on the note in the list of notes. |
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| 9. Edit and format text | |
|---|---|
| ⌘+X | Cut the selected text to the clipboard |
| ⌘+C | Copy a selection to the clipboard |
| ⌘+V | Paste a selection from the clipboard |
| ⌘+Shift+Option+V | Paste a selection from the clipboard and match the destination style |
| ⌘+B | Make the selected text bold |
| ⌘+I | Make the selected text italic |
| ⌘+U | Underline the selected text |
| ⌘+Shift+X | Strike through the selected text |
| ⌘+Ctrl+K | Insert a hyperlink |
| Arrow Left | Move the cursor left one character |
| Arrow Right | Move the cursor right one character |
| Arrow Up | Move the cursor up one line |
| Arrow Down | Move the cursor down one line |
| Option+Arrow Up | Move the cursor to the beginning of the current paragraph |
| Option+Arrow Down | Move the cursor to the end of the current paragraph |
| Option+Arrow Left | Move the cursor to the beginning of the current word |
| Option+Arrow Right | Move the cursor to the end of the current word |
| Forward Delete+ { (Opening Brace) | Decrease indent |
| Forward Delete+ } (Closing Brace) | Increase indent |
| Delete | Delete the character to the left of the cursor, or delete the selected text |
| Forward Delete or if your keyboard doesn't have a Forward Delete key, use FN+Delete | Delete the character to the right side of the cursor, or delete the selected text |
| Tab | Insert a tab stop |
| ⌘+Arrow Left | Move the cursor to the beginning of the line |
| ⌘+Arrow Right | Move the cursor to the end of the line |
| ⌘+Arrow Up | Move the cursor to the top of the message body |
| ⌘+Arrow Down | Move the cursor to the bottom of the message body |
| ⌘+Home | Move the cursor to the beginning of the selected text |
| ⌘+End | Move the cursor to the end of the selected text |
| Page up | Scroll up |
| Page down | Scroll down |
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| 10. Flag messages, contacts, and tasks for follow up | |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+1 | Flag the selected item for follow up, with Today as Due Date |
| Ctrl+2 | Flag the selected item for follow up, with Tomorrow as Due Date |
| Ctrl+3 | Flag the selected item for follow up, with This Week as Due Date |
| Ctrl+4 | Flag the selected item for follow up, with Next Week as Due Date |
| Ctrl+5 | Flag the selected item for follow up, with No Due Date |
| Ctrl+6 | Flag the selected item for follow up, and add a custom Due Date |
| Ctrl+= (Equal Sign) | Flag the selected item for follow up, and add a reminder |
| Ctrl+0 (Zero) | Mark the selected item as Complete |
| ⌘+Option+' (Apostrophe) | Clear the selected item's follow-up flag |
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