BLANK MAIL MESSAGES USING OUTLOOK

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BLANK MAIL MESSAGES USING OUTLOOK

Hi - I apologise for throwing this one in again - but I need to get an answer and haven't been able to find anything yet.

I am using a MacBook Pro with OS x Ver 10.6.8. For mail within our company we use MS Outlook. verything was fine up until a few weks ago. Messages appeared at Yahoo, came through on the Blackberry and came onto the MacBook in Outlook - all was well.

Something then happened - messages still appear in Yahoo and on trhe Blavkberry - the mesage appears in Outlook but when th emessage is opened there is no text within it!! The message sender details and the subject are all there - but no text below it. If I send a message or reply to (a blank message) my response text appears OK.

Anyone got any ideas please?

Tony Duckowrth

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Sep 14, 2013 12:55 AM

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Answer 1

Yeehat

Level 1

49 points

Sep 14, 2013 8:04 AM in response to tony duckworth

I strongly doubt this can solve your problem, but you may want to try to rebuild your Outlook identity (if you didn't already). Here you find details and how-tos, which I recommend you thoroughly read:

http://www.office.mvps.org/get_started/outlook.html

http://www.officeformachelp.com/outlook/troubleshoot/

I'm very skeptical about it, because googling around you can find plenty of users reporting your same problem (dating back to 2011) and no effective solution. I'm afraid this looks like other unsolved issues with Office for Mac 2011 still lying there. Hope I'm wrong though. I'm assuming you have updated Outlook to the latest available version (14.3.7), FWIW.

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Answer 2

Oct 24, 2013 5:53 AM in response to Yeehat

Am afraid that none of that helped. Have tried to get updates for software - but if and when you try you get a response that say's no updates available - what can you do?

This went on for about three months, tried many forums and groups, tried Apple direct with no response at all. Tried Microsoft to see if a problem with Outlook - a good forum but no solution. No response at all from anyone at Yahoo.

The only thing I could do was to create a completely new profile on the Mac, recreate the mail profile in the new profile and all the mail at Yahoo came through fine. Then had to copy across all the files etc - from the old profile to the new. A complete bore.

You would think that the likes of Apple and Microsoft - who must know that these 'help forums' exist - might monotor what s going on and maybe tried to fix some of these things that just happen - for no good reason.

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