Turn off Office Reminders for Mac Office 2011
Turn off Office Reminders. I had a friend who had two computers and this was annoying to him to have to acknowledge events on two machines. Who knew it was so easy?
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Rebuild the Outlook for Mac 2011 database to resolve problems
Rebuild the Outlook for Mac 2011 database to resolve problems. I had a friend who had this problem and his Option key wasn’t working to hold when you would start Outlook. So this article mentions another way to do this. Nice work!
Want to keep your customers informed but need better email management?
Using BCC to email people in bulk? Shame on you. – Entrepreneur. Instead of trying to shoehorn Outlook or Entourage into doing something it’s not great at, read the article above. It gives some reasons why this is a dangerous practice. It also is a silly one. For less than 2,000 people MailChimp does it for free. What a deal!
Is Outlook 2011 a resource hog on your Mac?
It was for Hsoi. Here is what I suggested in his comments:
Have you tried rebuilding your email database? This has fixed the sluggish problems that I have had in the past with Entourage and people who have thousands of messages. Also, Entourage doesn’t seem to like thousands of messages in a folder, so if you keep the totals less than 2000 msg per folder it seems to perform much faster.
Here is the link to the Microsoft KB on how to fix rebuild the database. It’s very easy and generally safe.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2360509
Maximum PC | 27 Tips for Complete Email Mastery
Maximum PC | 27 Tips for Complete Email Mastery. If you use email you will learn something from this article. Especially helpful if you use Outlook or want to understand its capabilities better.
