The clippings in the Scrapbook disappear. In Outlook, when you perform a search, the search results don't match the criteria that you set. The Outlook Profile Manager (previously called the Microsoft Database Utility) is installed as part of your Office installation, and it allows you to create new profiles, edit or delete profiles, and set your default profile. In Outlook, you can't find information that you added, such as a calendar event or a contact. Note: In Outlook 2011 for Mac, profiles were called identities. Outlook contact entries don't display correctly.
Outlook items don't open, or the item that opens is not the item that you chose.īlank lines appear in the Outlook message list or in Outlook contacts. You may have to repair the Outlook database. If the problem is resolved, the issue is related to the Outlook database. Outlook doesn't open, stops responding, or quits unexpectedly. Drag Office 2011 Identities to the desktop. If you have any of the following problems, the database might be damaged and you might have to rebuild it by using the Microsoft Database Utility: If you installed a version of Office that includes Outlook, the database also stores all Outlook data, including messages, events, tasks, preferences, and contacts.
In all versions of Office - and stand-alone versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - the database stores contacts and Scrapbook clips. You can use the Microsoft Database Utility to rebuild the Office database, create a new identity, or set the default identity.
OFFICE 2011 IDENTITIES MAC HOW TO
For instructions about how to create an alias, see Mac OS Help.Īn installation of Office includes the Microsoft Database Utility, which is located in the /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office folder. Otherwise, Office will be unable to find your user data. However, if you do this, you must put an alias to the folder in the folder's original location.
You can move the folder for an identity, or the whole Microsoft User Data folder, to a different location, such as another hard disk attached to your computer or to a network. The Microsoft User Data folder contains an Office 2011 Identities folder that stores the Office database for each identity in its own folder. The first time that you use Office, a folder named Microsoft User Data is created in the Documents folder provided by the Mac OS.