This issue occurs in Outlook for Mac 2011 version 14.5.5 and earlier versions when they are running on Mac OS X El Capitan (version 10.11). To install the fix, you can either: Open Outlook and click Check for Updates on the help menu (if your outlook freezes before you can update, you can create a blank profile temporarily by ALT-Clicking on. Nov 08, 2015 I have upgraded three machines to El Capitan.two work and one fails. One was a 2009 MacBook Pro repair for a friend. That machine had Office 2008 and everything is fine. Another is my 2012 Mac mini - Office 2011 and everything is fine. Then there is my 2010 MacBook Pro with Office 2011. Excel and Word crash immediately after opening. Nov 01, 2015 MacBook Pro late 2011 (non-Retina), OSX El Capitan, Office for MAC 2011 As mentionned before, I installed update 14.5.6 for Outlook for Mac 2011 and it didn't work. Well, I have good news. Just opened Outlook for Mac 2011 and promptly checked the 'work offline' option so that it doesn't freeze.
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.
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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.