Microsoft today released an update for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, which fixes a significant Outlook bug that Office users ran into after upgrading to OS X El Capitan. After installing the new Apple operating system, many Outlook 2011 users found themselves unable to access their mail due to a syncing issue that caused the app to hang whenever it attempted to access the server.
Users were seeing a spinning Wait cursor whenever a sync was attempted and Outlook would become unresponsive, making it impossible to fetch new emails. The new 14.5.6 update should fix this problem for Outlook users who have installed OS X El Capitan and is a much better fix than Microsoft's previous workaround, which simply suggested users run OS X Yosemite.
El Capitan: Microsoft update aims to fix Outlook crashes Microsoft has rolled out an update designed to fix problems Outlook 2011 users are encountering with the latest El Capitan operating system. OS X El Capitan was made available to download for free for current Mac users on 30 September. The biggest problem with Office 2011 and El Capitan are hangs or crashes during account syncing. Microsoft is aware of this problem which it describes as: Shortly after you start Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 on Mac OS X El Capitan (version 10.11), Outlook hangs when it tries to sync with the server. MAC Outlook was causing latency on the network and consistently crashed. I had the user clear their cache in Outlook and then re-sync. After hours of syncing/. Unclear whether Microsoft or Apple is at fault for irregular crashes of Outlook, Excel and Word. After Apple released the new OS X El Capitan on Wednesday, users streamed to a Microsoft support discussion forum to report that Office 2016 for Mac regularly crashed, crippling their productivity. Oct 08, 2015 Microsoft Outlook Crashes or Hangs on Mac os x El-Capitan. By Published October 8, 2015 Updated October 8, 2015. Have you upgraded to OS X El-Capitan from App store. Does your Microsoft Outlook V 14.5.X started crashing? Microsoft came out with the fix. Hi all, I am using Outlook 2016 15.15 (151008) on El Capitan 10. Outlook 2016 Mac crashing every calendar invite IF I had anything in the location field.
Though Microsoft has fixed one major bug OS X El Capitan users are running into, there are still problems with Office 2016. Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint 2016 are crashing for many users, preventing them from being used with OS X El Capitan.
Microsoft has said that it is working on a fix for Office 2016, but it has not given a timeline for when users can expect the issues to be solved.
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Nov 05, 2015 Microsoft is aware of issues with Office for Mac 2011, and Office 2016 for Mac on El Capitan. No timeframe announced by them for fixes. Keep checking your Office updates. Nothing anyone here, or Apple Engineering can do about your issues.