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Sorry folks - had to give up on Office 2016/2019. Back to 2010
Hi folks
Finally removed all vestiges of my experiments etc with Office 2016 and 2019.
Installed my old MSDN / Technet VL stand alone version of Office 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010. Old technet VL key activated on 4 systems without problem (was a VL version in any case). Windows update gave about 4 - 5 pages of updates including a service pack.
Now everything is working brilliantly again -- keeping that version now until it's EOL at end of 2020.
I did try the other editions - but after Ms changed 2016/2019 from In House versions to that wretched click 2 run thing with the updates it became seriously bonkersly unuseable -- I did give it a good go but not for me I'm afraid Ms.
I never did get IMAP to work properly - sent mail was only seen on machine it was sent from), mail couldn't be deleted if you switched languages and then tried to delete mail that you had sent when using a different office display language, and configuring outlook to run on your own domain mail servers was just a hopless exercise in futility due to auto config not recognizing your mail servers. You could sort of get it to configure by using control panel email applet - but that didn't always work properly either.
Anyway quite happy now. But I really did test 2016/2019 quite rigorously.
Running Office 2010 successfully on current 1803 build and the 1809 skip ahead builds.
Cheers
jimbo