How do I change my password in Outlook 2011 for Mac? Go to the Outlook menu in the menu bar and choose Preferences. Click the Accounts button. If you have multiple accounts setup in Outlook 2011, please make sure that you are in your GCCCD Exchange account settings. This affects ALL version of Outlook for Mac (2011, 365, and 2016) if the Exchange Server is configured for STRICT mode. Instead, the Exchange Server must be configured for COMPATIBLE mode for Outlook for Mac users to keep on working. Our assigned Comcast Hosted Exchange server (Exchange 2010) is part of server cluser 'w14d'.
Microsoft has released Office for Mac 2011. The latest version of the Office Suite aims to bridge the divide between the Mac and PC, and it packs a ton of new features, including Microsoft Outlook, collaborative sharing and editing, and an updated interface.
Microsoft decided to forego upgrade pricing this year, charging everyone the same regardless of whether they have a previous version. Are the new features and additions worth the price? Read our hands-on review to find out.
Outlook 2011
With Office for Mac 2011, Outlook makes its triumphant return to the platform. The last time Microsoft made Outlook available on the Mac was with Office 2001 — and that version was only for Exchange users. Instead, Microsoft introduced Entourage.
Three years ago, when I switched to OS X full-time, not having Outlook was a large barrier for me to overcome. Apple Mail was a chore. Since then, Mail.app has improved, gaining native Exchange support and native interoperability with Gmail and other IMAP services. My e-mail needs have also changed and I no longer find myself in need of full Exchange server functionality — and I know I'm not alone. The need for robust Exchange support has dwindled as more businesses continue to move from managed domain-based e-mail to services like Google Apps.
When Office for Mac 2008 was released, many questioned whether Entourage was as good as Outlook 2007. The answer was no. Two years later, the question has shifted only slightly: Is Outlook for Mac as good as Outlook 2010? The context on the other hand is dramatically different.
After several weeks of testing, I feel confident in saying that Outlook 2011 for Mac is the first Mac e-mail client that is on par with its Windows counterpart. Not every feature of Outlook 2010 is in Outlook 2011 for Mac, but it's extremely close.
So how is the transition from Apple Mail to Outlook? To test Outlook 2011's prowess, I did something I wouldn't recommend doing under most circumstances: A bulk import of all e-mail messages, accounts and signatures from Apple Mail.
To be clear, I'm a heavy e-mail user. I maintain three active e-mail accounts, each with intricate sets of rules and filters and large volumes of messages. During past attempts, Entourage simply froze, so I was curious whether Outlook would be up to the abuse.
To its credit, Outlook managed to import gigabytes of data without crashing, while keeping my rules intact — though I did have to run them on my various inboxes after the process was finished. I was also able to sync my address book with Address Book for Mac and it pre-populated my work calendar using e-mail invitations.
The one thing that kept the process from being seamless was importing/exporting other calendar events. If you already have calendars setup through Google, MobileMe or iCal, you have to export the calendars and then manually import them into Outlook. Still, any invitations from your inbox will populate themselves in a calendar associated with that account.
The default presentation is three vertical columns, but you can switch to two columns or to a split-column view similar to what Mail.app uses. You can also check the status of sending/receiving mail, and you can view local folders and IMAP mapped folders with ease.
The integration of alarms and alerts for upcoming appointments or events is a really nice touch. I also like how you can have a tear-off 'Today' column for to-dos and upcoming events.
The threaded conversation view is really nice — but it isn't fool proof. It groups together all items sharing the same subject. The problem is that sometimes it confuses itself with the same subjects from different threads. It would be nice if this could be more granulized.
Outlook 2011 is fast, though I'm not sure it's as fast as Apple Mail with the same accounts setup. It also has support for Exchange Server 2007 and 2010 accounts worked without a hitch, even over a VPN. Plus, Microsoft has fixed the way Time Machine backups and Spotlight indexing works, meaning that you don't have to worry about backups taking six times longer (like you did with previous versions of Entourage).
Word 2011
Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac was a solid offering. The improvements to Word 2011 are less visible than the inclusion of Outlook, but they are noticeable.
There are now more templates and document types available, and many of the features from Microsoft Publisher are added directly to Word 2011.
You can now use the Word co-authoring tool that was introduced in Office 2010 for Windows. It allows teams to collaborate by sharing files using Windows Live SkyDrive or SharePoint.
Microsoft has also improved its Automator support for creating Automator Workflows in Word and other Office 2011 products.
Perhaps the best feature, though, is the new distraction-free writing mode, which long-form writers may enjoy.
PowerPoint 2011
We're just going to come right out with this: Keynote is better. Having said that, the professional world runs on Powerpoint, and there are some promising additions in PowerPoint 2011.
For instance, the ability to collaborate and access files from various locations is a huge win — especially if you are a SharePoint user. This also makes it easy to broadcast presentations online.
Apple has toyed with some of these features in iWork '09, but it hasn't taken it as far as Microsoft with Office 2011.
We would love to see some iOS options for PowerPoint, because the ability to control a presentation from an iPhone or iPad and make edits on the go has become a key feature for Keynote. Microsoft already has the cloud computing aspect with SkyDrive, so it wouldn't be a stretch to release an app.
Excel 2011
Excel 2008 removed some of the macro support for files created in Excel for Windows, specifically those created with Visual Basic. Visual Basic support is back for Excel 2011 and there are new features that work across platforms.
Like Word and PowerPoint, you can access files using SharePoint or Windows Live SkyDrive.
There are also new tools for managing tables and conditional formatting. Like Word, Excel is just more polished than its already shiny offering.
Performance
The first time you run an Office program, it might take a few seconds to launch, though subsequent program launches get faster. Every time you logout or restart your computer, the process starts over, but launching remained quick. For us, it was a big improvement over Office 2008.
As we said, Outlook did seem a bit slower than Apple Mail, but it wasn't slow and we didn't have any crashes.
Excel and Word seem on par with Pages and Numbers, though we would still give a speed/performance edge to Keynote over PowerPoint.
Interface
Call me crazy, I like the Ribbon. I think Microsoft nailed the concept in Office 2011. It managed to take the best elements from the Windows version but still keep the Mac functionality that makes a Mac a Mac.
Overall
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is not only a great Mac release, it's a great Office release. It seems that finally as much care has gone into creating Office for Mac as goes into Office for Windows.
Despite the move to the cloud, many of us still use an office suite to do much of our work. Office for Mac 2011 is a great way to get more done on your Mac.
Office for Mac 2011 is $149.99 for the Home & Student edition (three installs), which does not include Outlook 2011. Office for Mac 2011 for Home & Business users is $279.99 (also three installs).
Reference: Our testing conducted on a late-2009 27-inch iMac with an Intel i7 and 8GB of RAM, running Mac OS X 10.6.4.
‘Microsoft Entourage, being the email client cum personal information manager for Mac OS version 8.5 or later, served the consumers across the world for a long time. Entourage ruled the world of email clients ever since its emergence (i.e. in October 2000) to the day when Microsoft completely replaced with Outlook for Mac 2011 in Office for Mac 2011 suite.’
Ever since Outlook for Mac 2011 settled its feet on to the emailing services era, it has been drawing more and more consumers towards itself. Some of the consumers migrated their mailboxes from the current client to the newer platform. Most of the users did not, might be because they are unaware of a reliable way to migrate the mailbox from Entourage to Outlook. The other reason could be that they are over conscious about the security of the mailbox during migration, for which they never attempted it.
In this post, you will get to know about a secure and reliable method to migrate from Entourage to MS Outlook for Mac 2011.
Entourage Mailbox
Microsoft Entourage stored mailbox contents in a .RGE file. In other words, Microsoft Entourage mailbox database file has .RGE file format, which requires the Entourage client for read and write access. A .RGE database file stores emails, contacts, calendar, notes, tasks, and more, which is unique for each mailbox associated with the client.
The file menu in Entourage was provided with Import and Export options, used for tasks like mailbox import and export. The biggest advantage of such data files is that they are easy to transport, and they can be directly imported into Entourage when received at the destination.
Migration from Entourage to Outlook
In addition to a security and reliability during migration, another key issue is the security and reliability of the newer platform itself for your existing well as future emails. However, when it comes to choose Microsoft’s services and products, you can undoubtedly upgrade to them. For the time being, let us go through the below mentioned secure and reliable way to migrate Entourage mailbox to Outlook 2011 for Macintosh.
Locate the Entourage database (*.RGE) file and copy it, and then paste it to another location on the same computer. In case your Mac denies copying the database, you have to export mailbox to a new .RGE file, and then you can proceed with the migration process. See how you can export Entourage data into a .RGE file:
- Launch Entourage and click the File menu, and then choose Export in the context menu
- Select the items that you want to export and click the Next button
- Select No option to leave the items in the Entourage mailbox after export
- Choose a location on your Mac and please check the file extension to save
- Click the Done button to finish exporting the Entourage database.
With this, you now have available a copy of your Entourage mailbox, which you need to import into Outlook 2011 for Mac. Follow the steps mentioned below for this:
- Go to Application > Microsoft Office 2011 > Microsoft Outlook
- Click the File menu and choose Import
- In the Import wizard, select the option ‘Entourage information from an archive or earlier version‘, and then click the Next button to proceed
- On the next screen, select ‘Entourage 2008 (Including Web Services Edition)’ and click the Next button
- All the mailbox items are shown selected by default; click the Next button to proceed
- On the next screen, Select the identity created most recently and click the Next button
- On the following message dialog, click OK
- This will import your mailbox data from Exchange Server and you will see the following screen saying ‘Microsoft Outlook wants to use your confidential information stored in “Exchange” in your key chain’. Click the Always Allow button
- With this, you are done importing the .RGE file into Outlook 2011. You see the following screen and click the Finish button to close it
You can now read/write access your Entourage mailbox in Outlook for Mac 2011 client, and you do not have to modify the file format of any of the mailbox contents.
Set up Your Email Account in Outlook for Mac 2011
Since MS Outlook support synchronizing multiple email accounts simultaneously, you can set up your personal and professional emails simultaneously in Outlook for Mac 2011. See how you can do it:
- In Outlook for Mac 2011, click Tools menu and choose Accounts
- On the Accounts wizard, click the plus (+) button in the bottom left corner and choose Email in the list
- In the next step ‘Enter your account information’, type in your Email and Password
- Now, you see the windows has been expanded and you need to provide more information:
- In the Email address field, type-in the email address that you want to configure
- In the Password field, type-in the password
- In the User name field, type-in your email ID (the same as entered in step a)
- In the Type menu, choose IMAP
- In the ‘Incoming Server field’, type-in ‘imap.one.com’
- Check the ‘use SSL to connect (recommended)’ checkbox
- In the ‘Incoming server port’ field, type-in 993
- In the ‘Outgoing server field’, type-in send.one.com and port no. 465
- Check both ‘Override default port’ and ‘Use SSL to connect (recommended)’ check boxes, and then click the Add Account button
- In the next step, prove the following information associated with your email account being set up:
- In the Account description field, type-in your email
- Provide rest of the information as in step 4
- Click More Options button and select an authentication mode
- Provide your Username and Password
- In the Unqualified domain field, type-in the domain name used in your email ID
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(Email ID: username@exampledomain.com, then domain name: exampledomain.com)
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- Click OK
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With this, you end up configuring your email account on Outlook of Mac 2011. Your Emails should start downloading automatically.