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Can I get outlook 2016 for mac to sync contacts...

I am considering purchase of an iMac and switching from windows.  However, I have twenty years of emails in my Outlook .pst file.  Right now I'm using the wonderful Apple iCloud syncing program for windows that syncs all my calendars, contacts and bookmarks between windows and my idevices.

I understand that I can purchase Office/Outlook 2016 for the iMac and that I can import my historic emails from windows.  However, thus far my show stopper is it appears that I would no longer be able to sync contacts and calendars between Outlook 2016 for iMac and El Capitain or my several iDevices.

Microsoft support for Outlook for iMac tells me it is because the new iMac operating system will no longer allow Outlook to sync, whereas it did before.

Is this correct information?

If so, is Apple considering finding or creating a way for Outlook on iMac to sync contacts and calendars with El Capitain and iDevices?

Thank you.

According to Microsoft you can....

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Import-a-pst-file-from-Outlook-for-Wind ows-1bebc2d6-3683-4d93-aad6-385ff06de1e8

Outlook will not sync with iCloud at all. so if you use iCloud, don't use Outlook. Your Mac came with the apps you need to use iCloud. Use them.

Thank you for your quick response.  The link confirms that I can import my windows pst file into outlook 2016 for iMac. 

Do you know anything about the syncing issues I also raised?

Microsoft support for Outlook for iMac tells me the new iMac operating system will no longer allow Outlook to sync, whereas it did before.

Is this correct information?

If so, is Apple considering finding or creating a way for Outlook on iMac to sync contacts and calendars with El Capitain and iDevices?  Or do you know of a work around?

Thanks.

Yes, that's what I'm learning.

However, as a twenty-year long Outlook user I'd like to migrate Outlook with me to an iMac.

And I'm told that once upon a time, not so long ago, outlook on iMac could sync, but it was because Apple cut it off with upgrade to the new OS for iMac.

Is this correct info?

Will Apple be trying to change this so all the windows users (who still love Outlook) can go out an buy a splendid iMac?

Perhaps not, but that's why I'm asking.

When Apple created the iCloud syncing download for Windows it created a very useful bridge to encourage windows users like me to buy idevices.

Because with that little app all idevices and Outlook sync contacts, calendars and bookmarks through iCloud.

I'm wondering, asking, or hoping that Apple will do (or maybe has done) the same thing for windows users who actually want to buy and iMac, but bring Outlook along with them.

I thought I answered this before, Outlook does not sync with Apple services at all, so you can't.

Only Outlook for Windows will sync, Outlook for Mac not (ask Microsoft why they took that decision, we weren't consulted)

The apps Csound1 is referring to are Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Safari, Notes, Photos, etc...

Many users (myself included) that use MS Office for Mac end up only using Word, Excel & PowerPoint. To sync their calendars, mail, notes etc.. they use the apps Apple provided which are extremely robust and are designed to sync with iCloud. Many ex-PC's users tend to drop Outlook because they find it unnecessary.

Dropping Outlook is simply the best thing do

I did ask Microsoft by calling their Outlook for Mac office.  They told me that Apple took the decision to break the previously existing syncing. I'm wondering if that is correct.  And, in any case, is Apple considering how it could get Outlook for iMac to sync again.

Or, maybe sticking with Outlook on Windows, continuing to sync with iCloud, NOT buying a new iMac and instead buying a new Windows 10 computer.

Since Apple made it so easy for windows users like me to try iphones and ipads by providing syncing with outlook I though (perhaps incorrectly) that Apple would WANT Outlook users to be apple to migrate easily to Apple desktops. 

Once again NO

The previous method (cal and carddav) is an open source industry standard used by many (Google/Yahoo/Apple etc) Microsoft elected to not use it (thats why Outlook syncs with nothing) expect Exchange, which MS will sell you.

MS are full of it

Thanks for your actual user view.  Definitely something to consider.  But it would be a lot easier for me to make the switch if I could bring Outlook syncing along too. Thanks again for your user perspective.

Whatever you decide is your decision. We all have things that work best for us, I myself use the Office 2016 and just simply use the Mail app provided by Apple. It all comes down to Outlook vs Mail and Outlook didn't really give me any extra benefit over Mail. So the rest is simply up to you....

Surfer100FL wrote:

 

Or, maybe sticking with Outlook on Windows, continuing to sync with iCloud, NOT buying a new iMac and instead buying a new Windows 10 computer.

 

Since Apple made it so easy for windows users like me to try iphones and ipads by providing syncing with outlook I though (perhaps incorrectly) that Apple would WANT Outlook users to be apple to migrate easily to Apple desktops.

It was Microsofts decision, why do keep on trying to reassign that decision to Apple.

Buy a Winbox .if Outlook matters that much tp you and you want to use it with iCloud.

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