Comments on: Outlook 2010 Offline Mode

By: Dr Wireless

Dr Wireless — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:51:08 +0000

Same exact problem. Offline and cannot go online. Outlook 2010 is a pain in the butt compared to Outlook 2003. I’m going back to that or my Mac.

By: Easy A

Easy A — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:18:26 +0000

Thanks Nathalie!

By: shoaib

shoaib — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:13:09 +0000

great stuff… really helpful.

By: Hoosier Mike

Hoosier Mike — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 02:33:42 +0000

Well–I have the same issue. I can click the WORK OFFLINE all I want and nothing happens. I removed my profile in the Control Panel and NOW I have no contacts, calendar, etc. AND I still have the Work Offline button with the ugly Red “x”. Does anyone have any legitimate suggestions? The ones above are bogus.
Totally disgusted with Outlook 2010.

By: Nathalie

Nathalie — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:51:51 +0000

All you have to do to fix this issue is to recreate your outlook profile. When you receive this error the outlook profile has been corrupted. So go to Control Panel in Windows 7 (Start…Control Panel). Once there type in Mail in Search box at the upper right corner. The Mail 32 icon should come up. Double click on it. Go to Profile and remove any profiles in the list that exist. Click okay to accept. Restart outlook. You can now create a new profile using the automatically launched outlook mail setup wizard. NOTE-This will require you to be an administrator and have the knowledge to reconfigure your mail settings (outgoing and incoming mail servers, passwords, or exchange settings). So make sure you have this info. And, yes, your pst files will still be there and should come up.

By: Fred B

Fred B — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:41:34 +0000

I don’t even have a Globe in the send/receive tab! Stuck in Offline mode… sweet, guess I’ll wait 30mins and see if that does it.

By: la

la — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:09:19 +0000

i click on the ‘work offline’globe and it doesn’t do anything. anyone got any latest info on how to switch to work online for ms outlook 2010? i can’t even imagine why it would want to default to work offline – seems nuts!

By: tradge

tradge — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:44:07 +0000

Same for me. Outlook 2010 opens and remains offline unless I manually click the “work offline” button to turn it off. Not only does it not make sense it is extremely frustrating.

By: Edna Miller

Edna Miller — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:00:55 +0000

IT IS WORKING! I set up the same account over again without deleting the original one or anything. The red X at the top is still there but NOT at the bottom. Before I tried this I tried to go in to the same account but make no adjustments, ran test, test worked but I was still stuck offline. So last ditch effort was to set up a second identical account and it worked~!!! All of the mail flooded into my box. Good luck. Crazy glitch, but so happy to have found a way around it.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:56:33 +0000

it finally worked, if you are working in “offline mode” in 2010 you will see a yellow area on the bottom of the screen with the red X stating “offline.”
When you single click on the globe in the “work-offline” button under the “send/receive” tab. watch the bottom of the screen and you will see outlook tiring to connect, twice it indicate a “error” and went back to the red X.
I went into the account management and went through the process of changing the account without making any changes, the first time it would not connect to my pop server and this is why it was not going to online when I first clicked on the globe. The second try everything was okay and the test pasted. I went back and click on the globe and the “working-offline” and the red X was removed.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:47:14 +0000

Tried clicking on the globe, tried double clicking, single click and waited, clicked and rebooted outlook. Still the same, its in offline mode and seems to be stuck there.

Why did they not create an offline button and online button?

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:30:10 +0000

I have the same problem. I upgraded from MS Office Professional to MS Office 2010. Now I cannot send/receive any e-mails in Outlook. I tried clicking on the globe that says Work Offline, but it does not do anything.

I tried a repair several times and also tried setting up a new (duplicate) e-mail account. This did not work either.

By: kim

kim — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:34:36 +0000

I just tried clicking on the globe in the send/receive tab and it does not work. Any more sugestions?

By: Ron Koyich

Ron Koyich — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 06:11:53 +0000

Thanks, Satish – that works – click on the red ‘x’ to go offline – click on the globe to go on-line – real intuitive stuff, eh?

By: Frans

Frans — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:21:57 +0000

yes, metasense, its the nerdy approach of these wise guys at ms,
i always have been missing:
1. a button to be offline/online
even without using browser or email, i want to be in charge when the system goes online.
2. a button for only sending mail.

it seems to me that the designers at ms miss some fundamental psychological insight.

By: Satish

Satish — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:31:44 +0000

Finally figured out how to get back to on-line in outlook 2010. Go to send/receive tab and click on the Globe (work offline) This brings it back on-line.

By: eddiekibble

eddiekibble — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:01:50 +0000

Not so. I an permanently on Offline mode. Ran a repair, tried everything as above, nada. HOWEVER, I can receive emails with impunity. I have had to create a Hotmail account just to send messages out. It is most clunky, shoddy and frustrating.

By: Swisshut

Swisshut — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:26:30 +0000

I find the longest time waiting on outlook is whilst its loading the program itself. Its frustrating starring at the outlook 2010 splash screen for about 1-2 minutes whilst its even saying “installing outlook” when I bloody installed it weeks ago.

By: Swisshut

Swisshut — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:26:30 +0000

By: Nakodari

Nakodari — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:06:53 +0000

Actually when you work offline, it turns of Send/Receive All Folders function. This means you can neither download nor send any email in real-time, but you can send an email and it will be saved in the queue, i.e, it will be send immediately you turn off Offline mode.

By: Nakodari

Nakodari — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:06:53 +0000

By: Metasense

Metasense — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:57:24 +0000

Eventually, it did go back Online by itself. Hard to say why. The only reason I turned it Offline in the first place is because I like to download email when I am ready for it and not all the time. This is what I did in 2003. But I had to give up on doing this because in 2010 if you do that then it won't send your Outbox email until the next time you download. What a huge step backward!

By: Metasense

Metasense — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:53:29 +0000

Once I turned it Offline, I could not turn it back Online. Clicking it does nothing. There is no “Connect to Server” button anywhere, so I can't do that. There is no way in Outlook 2010 to work online.

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By: 2010Frowner

2010Frowner — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:53:22 +0000

Tried this uncountable times with no result. Did a Repair reload of Office, tried the suggestion above and re-hitting the Work Offline button worked fine. Thanks!

By: Nakodari

Nakodari — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:06:49 +0000

If you have switched to Offline mode, hit the 'Wok Offline' button again to revert back to Online Mode. After this you may also need to hit the 'Connect To Server' button given under the same tab(second button from left), but is not necessary.

If the 'Connect To Server' button is given then you can click it to being downloading messages, otherwise it will automatically connect after 30mins(which is the default time).

By: 2010Frowner

2010Frowner — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:52:55 +0000

Great, but after you turn it off, how do you get back online? My Outlook 2010 will not get back online! Any suggestions?

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