Considering the **** way in which Outlook behaves even as a simple email editor (e.g. So I have little hope of ever seeing this QuickLook problem being fixed. To like) the stripped-down software that remains is utterly bug-ridden nothing ever gets fixed and sending detailed feedback to Microsoft does no good at all.
It has taken away all the most useful features of Entourage (which I used I have to say that Outlook 2001 remains the buggiest and most disappointing (and most overpriced) pieces of software it has ever been my displeasure to use in 35 years of computing. Reset this and give me ONE more successful QuickLook. But then, any attempt to QuickLook any other file (or the same file again) will produce absolutely no response of any kind.
I can QuickLook just one file (any file) and it'll actually work, miraculously enough. Having installed Outlook 2011 on this, I find that the situation is a little different: QuickLooking an attachment (any attachment) will work a grand total of ONCE per I've recently got a new Retina iMac, currently running the latest Yosemite (10.10.2). QuickLook has never worked with the vast majority of attachments.ģ. The problems as described have always been there. The Mac on which I did this (a Mac Pro) has been updated to the latest version of Mavericks (10.9.5). Over the entire lifetime of Office 2011, I've installed all updates and kept it regularly up to date, not to mention filing numerous bug reports and suggestions in the early days when I was naive enough to think that doing so might achieve something.Ģ. To confirm the current situation (for me):ġ. Since no-one has commented, it seems far more likely to assume that nothing has been done… and bugs tend to appear, not to magically get fixed on their own.
Both Mac OS X and Microsoft Outlook have had significant updates since this question was asked, and no one has commented on it for almost a year, so I suspect that installing updates to Mac OS X and Office ought to fix the problem.