Since upgrading to El Capitan, Microsoft Outlook will not remember it's window size after I close and reopen, or quit and restart the program.
This problem did not occur with any previous operating systems.
Please help....
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
That's bad news, corvairkid. At the moment, I am hopeful: Outlook is behaving *perfectly*. Maybe tomorrow or the day after will bring a different story - who knows?
I have found that it works better after the recent El Cap update. There was also a Microsoft update, but don't think it was Outlook specific. I randomly get it opening small but not nearly as often as before. Now if someone could just fix all of the PowerPoint 2016 problems, I can save the rest of my hair.
Yes, I spoke too soon. As corvairkid says and Charles confirms, OSX 10.11.2 offer san improvement in the behaviour of Outlook, but it isn't a full fix. I've already had one window reopening problem this morning...
FYI: Outlook 15.18.0 update did not resolve the issue for me.
Earlier this morning, I updated my Outlook For Mac 2011 to the latest version, 14.6.0.
Issue not resolved. I didn't think it would since it's Apple's problem.
Considering that Apple still hasn't fixed the incompatibility between El Capitan and Apple Calendar, I don't have any high hopes that they will fix the problem between this operating system and a 6 year old Microsoft application.
Still using the yellow button to minimize/hide the Outlook window, which still works fine.
El Capitan 10.11.2, Outlook for Mac 15.18, issue still persists!
Can anyone answer this question?
I noticed that at the top of this thread, there is a link: "Branched to a new discussion."
When I click on it, I get this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7398231
Can someone please clarify?
Never mind the last question. I received some excellent information from the folks over in the "Using Apple Support Communities" forum.
I just sent another bug report to Apple regarding these 2 problems (Outlook window size, Apple Calendar window size).
Perhaps if more people do this it will get someone's attention.
Here's the link to the feedback form: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
By the way: There is a work-around for the Calendar problem that seems to work.
When using Calendar, select View, then select Hide Calendar List.
Since I've been keeping the Calendar List hidden, Calendar remembers it's window size and opens to the size previously used every time.
Hope this helps.
Also... I've been in contact with the Microsoft Community about this since October 3rd.
Here's the link to that thread: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macoutlook/outlook-wi ndow-size-problem/cf05e174-e1f6-4b4b-8576-bc78c3bf6270
Installed OS X 10.11.3 update released today. Closed and reopened Outlook 15.18.0 for at least 20 times. So far, so good. Fingers crossed.
Also installed OS X 10.11.3 earlier today.
The window size problems with Outlook for Mac 2011 version 14.6.0 and Apple Calendar version 8.0 also appear to be fixed!!
Keeping all fingers and toes crossed!!! 🙂
Will report back soon.
So much for that!
No sooner did I write the last post, when I went to re-open Outlook and it opened up in the small shrunken size again.
Calendar still seems to be fixed, but Outlook 2011 is NOT. ðŸ˜
Back to minimize/hide.
Well, I guess tonight's not my night.
I just restarted my iMac and Calendar reopened in the truncated size again.
Back to keeping the side bar hidden I guess.
I don't know what Apple fixed with this update, but it sure wasn't their own Calendar or Outlook for Mac 2011.
Also back to the problem. After the first reboot immediate after the update I reopened Outlook 2016 for 50 times and window size was remembered. So was iCal that opened correctly. Then, I rebooted again and - tataaaa - back to the same problem with both Outlook and iCal.
Interesting to note is how surprisingly much this problem affects my daily experience with my (then) beloved MacBook Pro, OS X, etc. Apple/Microsoft/whoever have succeeded in really spoiling it. Not to mention that Windows users I work with laugh at me.😉
Window Size Problem with El Capitan
