In the main Outlook screen click on View Current View Customize Current View. In the Customize View window click on Fields. Now the Show Fields screen opens and here is where you can add or remove fields, or choose the order the fields will be displayed. Feb 24, 2016 Hello experts, You know, you can sort emails depending on the columns like date, from, flag and etc. However, there is no column in the 'right pane view' option of the Outlook for Mac although there are columns in the 'bottom' and 'off' reading pane options.
Up until 2 days ago, I always felt like something was missing. As a Mac user I have been exposed to a plethora of amazing software that Windows developers cannot come close to replicating. I could modify any file on a website in a matter of seconds using, flip through databases and execute queries with, schedule upcoming tasks with, and the list goes on. But a trusted email software was always missing. Apple Mail I used Apple’s Mail application to send emails throughout the day, but using it almost drove me to start handwriting letters; it would crash incessantly.
Oh, and do you have Exchange 2010? Sorry, Mail can’t utilize its features – not even push. I was excited about Snow Leopard because I knew the new Mail could handle, and it can, but only if you’re using 2007 or below.
Also, if you are using Exchange 2010 with Mail and you enable the new Archive Mailbox feature, Mail will no longer connect to the Exchange server. At this point I wanted to rip my hair out. In my frustration, I had the thought of switching to a PC just to experience a real E-mail client. Of course, I would never actually do this as my productivity would plummet. Outlook 2011 for Mac While perusing the Apple store I noticed that Microsoft released Office 2011. I didn’t read anything about it but I knew Office 2008 was dated and buggy so I picked up a copy. Once the installation completed, I looked over the new icons on my Dock, and what is this I see?
Is that a big capital “O”? No it can’t be!? Microsoft Outlook has arrived for OS X. Increased Productivity Oh, the joy since that day! I can send E-mails at blinding speed. Below are some other reasons why I say that Outlook 2011 for Mac is AMAZING.
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Everything under one roof In Outlook my E-mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks and Notes are integrated into one application. Something I never understood about the standard Mac software was the separation of utilities. Why have your address book and your calendar detached from your e-mail client? These things belong together. In Outlook I can quickly switch between each of these utilities using keyboard shortcuts (E-mail: ⌘+1, Calendar: ⌘+2, Contacts: ⌘+3, Tasks: ⌘+4, Notes: ⌘+5) Memory Consumption Outlook eats up about 68.7 MB of memory.
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Mail, Address Book, iCal and Stickies eat up 61.0 MB, 35.7 MB, 40.2 MB and 12.3 MB respectively, totalling 149.2 MB of memory to perform the same tasks Outlook can do alone. I don’t factor Tasks into this equation because, as nice as Outlook Tasks are, I still prefer to use Things. Searching Locating a message In Mail can be a pain. You type in some criteria in the search box and it defaults to search who the message is ‘From’. You can modify this criteria to search within the content of a message, the ‘To’ field or the ‘Subject’ field, but that’s all.
I don’t want my mail client limiting my search capabilities. Outlook leverages the NSPredicate object of Objective-C and lets you utilize its full power in their Advanced Search. The level of granularity is astounding, and you can even write your own raw query! Conversations Sometimes in Mail, it is difficult to go back and read a long list of messages and all the replies that go with them. Outlook makes this simple with Conversations.
A Conversation is a logical grouping of an original message with all replies associated with it. It also logs other relevant data, such as the last person to reply.
This feature is a lifesaver when looking through old E-mails. It can get obnoxious when looking through newly arrived messages, but, thankfully, it can be disabled. Outlook 2011 Overview Outlook 2011 is overwhelming – in the good sense of the word. It is jam-packed with all sorts of great features and customizations. I can:. Move the reading pane to any position. Schedule a meeting based on an E-mail.
Quickly contact a coworker via Communicator. View a preview of “My Day”. And many, many more great features Outlook 2011 feels more like a Mac app than Mail does. The Office Mac team at Microsoft went all out and I am overly impressed. Where Mail is a hurdle, Outlook is a pair of rocket-powered rollerblades. It’ll really fly once someone creates a Plugin. If you don’t have Outlook 2011, get it.
Zsolt: For some reason there is no guide on the raw query that I can find online. After much digging I located the XML schema that Outlook uses for these column names. It will let you get pretty granular with your raw query search. I attempted to figure out a way to perform your query of “showing me all the messages from both inbox and sent items” but was unable. There is an attribute called “commicrosoftoutlookfolderID” which is an Integer type, however I tried from 0 to 100 trying different IDs and the only thing that came up was a single Contact entry for ID 14, very bizarre.
Here is the file location: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Outlook.mdimporter/Contents/Resources/schema.xml When you see a folder named “Contents”, that means from the Finder you must right click on the.app or.mdimporter files and choose “Show Package Contents”, that will bring you into the application subfolder. One possibility I see to achieve your query is if you utilized categories for everything. There is another attribute in the schema called “commicrosoftoutlookprimaryCategory”. For example say everything in your Inbox had a label and everything in your Sent Items had another label and you knew the Integer IDs of those categories (through trial and error) you could do the following raw query: commicrosoftoutlookprimaryCategory=12 commicrosoftoutlookprimaryCategory=13 Where 12 and 13 are the category IDs. The OR ( ) statement does work with the raw query. And remember when performing your query to select “All Mail” or “All Items” from the Select ribbon, otherwise it will only search within the folder you currently have selected. Take a look through that schema.xml and see if you can get something working, let me know if you do!
In trying to decipher your comment I believe you want to combine messages from 5 completely different E-mail accounts. If you read my previous response you would know exactly where to go to find the answer, but let me help. In my case I have only 1 account and therefor this works for me to show every single email from every single possible folder: commicrosoftoutlookaccountID = 1 Assuming Outlook increments Account IDs, you could try: commicrosoftoutlookaccountID = 1 commicrosoftoutlookaccountID = 2 commicrosoftoutlookaccountID = 3 commicrosoftoutlookaccountID = 4 commicrosoftoutlookaccountID = 5 Remember to select “All Mail” in the Search ribbon or it will only query mail from a specific folder. Thanks for the clue on the XML schema location. Why is it so hard to find out how to make a smart folder that shows all unread mail form all my (5) email accounts? I wonder where isMicrosoft’s documentation of RAW QUERIES?
And why didn’t they just include and OR/AND choice in the smart folder query edit interface? To get all the category ID numbers for your query, you can enumerate the Outlook Mac email categories using Applescript.
FYI, With the schema now known thanks to you, I was able to create a raw query that shows all unread mail from all accounts (commicrosoftoutlookaccountID 0) && (commicrosoftoutlookunread!=0) But the problem seems to be that it fails to recursively search child folders for unread emails. In my case, I have several IMAP email accounts on several servers. One is a Google central IMAP email account. (I like Google’s spam filtering and this setup allows me to pass all emails through the Gmail smam filter.) I set Google gmail to fetch my emails from various POP Yahoo email accounts. Then I set my IMAP folders to sort the mail based on the account it came from.
So I have one GMAIL folder in Outlook, and that GMAIL folder has several Yahoo subfolders. So far I am not able to get Outlook to show unread email sitting in the subfolders.?
I moved from Entourage 2008 to Outlook 2011. Best part: it launches and quits much faster. (Also, I agree big time that having mail, contacts, and calendar all in one application is much better than using separate apps.) Worst part of Outlook so far: delete a message and it goes to the Deleted Items folder (good) and disappears from any smart folder that excludes the Deleted Items folder (good)if you then empty the deleted items folder, the message is not really deleted (bad), it goes to some unnamed folder and reappears in the smart folders that previously excluded it (bad!).
Smart queries are cluttered with messages that you’ve deleted AND emptied from the Deleted Items folder AND synchronized off the server! You’ve done three things to get rid of an unimportant message, and Outlook keeps showing it to you. I had to discover the folder ID of this unnamed folder, and exclude those messages by adding a Raw Query to my smart folder (commicrosoftoutlookfolderID!= 11). I don’t know if that ID is the same for everybody. Here’s a posting from a guy who found another way to investigate the metadata: Also, you should use the possessive form of “it” in your article. That would be “its” not “it’s.” “It’s” is a contraction for “it is” or “it has.” (“Sorry, Mail can’t utilize it is features.”).