Feb 18, 2019 - Steps. Open any Microsoft Office application. You can open Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. It's in the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click Check for Updates. It's the third option in the Help menu. Select 'Automatically Download and Install.' Click Check For Updates.
Last update: March 2019 Applicable to: Outlook 365, 2019, 2016, 2013; Windows and macOS Here’s a question we got about Outlook not getting automatically updated: Unlike my Gmail account, it looks that my Microsoft Outlook 365 folders are not automatically updated with incoming email messages. Looks to me that the new email items are updated probably once in 15-20 minutes.
My question to you is how can i possibly set Outlook to automatically update its Inbox folder more often, if possible as often as Gmail does. If that’s not possible, can you explain how often Outlook checks for email? If you ever used Microsoft Office Outlook as your PC e-mail client, you might have noticed some delay in your inbox refresh. Typically, it takes your incoming mail a bit more time to arrive when compared to web email services such as Yahoo Mail, GMail and Outlook.com. Those typically auto update your inbox folder entries whenever new email hits your mailbox.
In today’s tutorial, i will show you how to make your Outlook inbox refresh automatically in shorter intervals so it always stays up to date with the latest incoming messaging: Outlook inbox auto-update on Windows. Open Outlook, and hit the Send/Receive button. Click on Send/Receive Groups drop down box and Select Define Send/Receive Groups. Special Bonus: the Free PDF version of our Outlook 2016 Tips and Tricks guide. After changing Close the Dialog box. Now your Outlook inbox will automatically refresh every 10 minutes.
Increasing the refresh rate of all your Inboxes. In the Send/Receive Groups dialog (steps to open it explained beforehand), go to “ Setting for group All Accounts“.
And then set the Schedule an automatic. Value to the required refresh rate. Again – beware the fact that too frequent updates could lead to; which are generally time consuming to fix. Auto-updating the Outlook calendar To ensure your Outlook calendar is always up to date, proceed as following:. In the Send/Receive Groups dialog, hit the Edit button. Then in the left hand side, ensure that your email account is marked.
Then under Folder Options ensure that your Calendar folder is marked. Auto-update you Outlook global address / contact lists. Same as in the section above, just ensure that the Contacts folder is marked for auto sync. Note: You can always trigger an update of your email folder by hitting F9. Inbox auto sync in macOS If you are using Outlook on macOS to read your Gmail, Hotmail or Exchange email, you can shorten uour Outlook folders synchronization interval, so that auto updates will be enabled and launched more often. Kindly proceed as following:. Open Outlook for MAC.
In the left bar, you’ll note your GMail, Hotmail / Outlook.com or Exchange Account. Make a right click and select Account Settings. The Accounts dialog will appear, at the bottom right of the screen hit the Advanced button. Open the Server tab and set your sync interval accordingly as shown below – Note that for IMAP accounts (GMail and Outlook.com) the minimum value is 2 minutes. Note: for slower connections like cellular hot spots, you might want to consider to check the Download message headers only box. Close the Accounts dialog. You are all set.