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Anytime, for several months now, I hit reply to an email that has an emoji within it, Outlook for Mac completely freezes up for a long time. I've created multiple support sessions within Outlook trying to resolve this. They don't understand the issue. Anyone here have any insight? I am on a 2019 iMac running Ventura 13.0. Outlook version is 16.66.1 (22101101). This is a business PC with an Exchange email account on it.
Using older versions of Outlook for Mac for personal email and calendar
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This and the other switch-to-old-outlook-then-switch-back have had no effect. Still 1-2 minute beachballing.
Tried this and it cut the freeze time down to 15 to 20 seconds. Still an issue, but better. Thanks.
Lucky you :)
tried it as you recommended, but on my MAC the same issue as before - FREEEEzEE up to 1 Minute. Seems to be a fortune in your configuration?
I *might* have just solved this problem. I restarted in safe mode (start with shift key held down), which clears system caches including fonts. Then I immediately restarted in normal mode. The problem appears to be gone. BTW it was bothering me in other Office apps too, but not as severely as Outlook. Was not a problem in other apps. Fingers crossed. There is also a way to clear caches from the command line in Terminal, but that seems scarier. Good luck!
I *might* have just solved this problem. I restarted in safe mode (start with shift key held down), which clears system caches including fonts. Then I immediately restarted in normal mode. The problem appears to be gone. BTW it was bothering me in other Office apps too, but not as severely as Outlook. Was not a problem in other apps. Fingers crossed. There is also a way to clear caches from the command line in Terminal, but that seems scarier. Good luck!