Outlook Crashing On Opening - macOS

Issue/Question

I click the icon to open Outlook, it begins to open and immediately shuts down and says Microsoft Error Reporting There was a problem with Microsoft Outlook…Restart Microsoft Outlook…I click OK and it does the same thing again.

Environment

  • macOS
  • Outlook

Cause

There are many reasons this can happen

Resolution

Install macOS updates

  1. Follow Update macOS on Mac 

Uninstall and Reinstall Outlook

  1. Press shift+command+a keys to open Applications folder
  2. Right click Microsoft Outlook
  3. Select Move to Trash
  4. Download Microsoft Outlook
  5. Open downloaded file
  6. Follow prompts
  7. Open Outlook