Mar 17, 2020 If Microsoft Outlook won't start, don't despair. Getting your email client back up and running properly might be simpler than you think. The right fix will depend on what you are experiencing as well as the version of Microsoft Outlook you have installed. Here's how to troubleshoot and repair your Microsoft Outlook.

Outlook has suddenly stopped working. Outlook 2011 for Mac application won’t launch or start. Splash screen comes up and then disappears again.Then the program quit.
Solution 1:- (Rebuild Outlook database)
Method 1: Press and hold Option key when launching Outlook to rebuild the identity.
Method 2: Press and hold Alt key (windows) and click the Outlook icon on on the Dock (If the icon not appears on dock, Go to /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011 folder and drag the outlook file to Dock).
Microsoft database utility will appear. Now click the Rebuild button.
It will reboot Outlook database. After it finished the process, click the Done button and close the Microsoft Database utility.
Method 3: Open Applications and choose Microsoft Office 2011 folder. Then select the office folder and find Microsoft Database Utility.app. Here you can find rebuild option.
Solution 2:- (Remove Outlook preference file)
Go to ~/Library/Preferences and delete Outlook preference file (file name starts with “com.microsoft”).
Solution 3: (Nano suggested)
Open Terminal app and type the following command to delete old preferences.

Next type or paste the following command to kill the cached preferences.

Then launch Microsoft Outlook.
If the above methods doesn’t work, re-install office 2011 software.

AutoUpdate 3.0.5 was installed with the last Office update a few days ago. Microsoft has backed off from the mess it made with a new version of AutoUpdate you can download now. The problem only happens if you're using both the Office 2016 preview Microsoft has posted as well as Office 2011.

Once you installed the previous version of AutoUpdate, you'd find that it would locate but would be unable to install an update to Office 2011. What's worse, the AutoUpdate program would grab lots of memory and generally make a mess of things. People were running into this problem:

To get past it, the easiest thing to do is to to run AutoUpdate again. It'll find the updated version of itself and install it. To do so, just select the 'Check for Updates' option in the Help menu of any open Microsoft application.

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If that doesn't work, or if you don't trust AutoUpdate to do the right thing, you can download the latest updater from Microsoft's web site and install it yourself. That'll download to your Downloads folder as a .pkg file.

How to run the AutoUpdate installer

1. Double-click on 'Microsoft AutoUpdate 3.0.6.pkg' to launch the installer.
2. Click Continue.
3. Click Continue again to install it to your Mac's hard drive.
4. Click Install.
5. Enter your administrator password and click Install Software.
6. After it's done click the Close button.

That's it.

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