If you don’t have a stable internet connection you may occasionally notice that a message in the bottom right hand side of your Outlook will say “Working Offline”. To turn off “Working Offline” in Outlook follow these steps:. On the Outlook Ribbon Click on Send/Receive. Click on the Work Offline button How to Tell If Work Offline is On or Off? If Working Offline is activated the button will be highlighted as below: When you click on the Work Offline Button it will become de-selected (not highlighted) which means you are Working Online You should also notice that “Working Offline” has been removed from the bottom bar.
It just appeared this morning on my Win 10 machine. No changes to the OS or the Office Suite. All is good via the Web interface to the same Exchange server.
If Outlook loses its connection to the Exchange server for a while, it may go into Offline mode. As long as Outlook is set to work offline, you will not be able to send and receive messages in the background – you will have to hit the Send/Receive button.
It seem to send (the dialog says it has competed but it is not in my sent items folder) but fails on receive with en error saying that the server is offline. This is the same server that works via the Web interface. No one else in the office is having this problem. I also had this problem a couple of months ago. It magically clear up after about 36 hours. Something is wrong with Outlook or Exchange. There are way too many folks complaining about this same problem for it to be non-existent.
You can try and re-install Outlook and when the installer comes up click ‘Repair’ or right click the shortcut to Outlook and choose Properties. In the Target field add /safe to the end.
If there are quotes add it before the end quote. Should look something like this: “C: Program Files Microsoft Office 15 root office15 outlook.exe /safe” It will open Outlook in safe mode and hopefully correct any issues. No promises though. Outlook in offline mode can indicate an issue with your internet as well so I would check that your internet connection is good before any of this.
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