>>>Hi,
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>>>I have been Googling for the captioned problem but still can't find a way to make this Offline to unstuck and go to Online mode. I am using POP/SMTP accounts. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. (This is Windows 7 64-bit OS). TIA.
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>>Does this work?
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>>1. go into the control panel >> Mail >> set the account to use cached mode. then in outlook the button for Online and Offline would work.
>>2. On the ribbon, go to the Send/Receive tab - the Work Offline button will show as activated. Click the Work Offline button to de-activate it.
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>Sorry. I did find the Mail item in the Control Panel. But no choice to " use cached mode" .

Heck the only other thing I can think of is to reboot a couple of times - if that doesn't work I'd re-install Outlook - which is what I did a couple of years ago when this happened to me.