Office for mac 2019, spinning wheel of doom in outlook - when trying to create an event

Hi Everyone,

2023 Macbook pro/m2/16gb ram/1tb ssd

I've been running Office 2019 without issue for ages. This week - everytime I try to create an event in outlook it takes a pause, then beachballs. The only thing I can do is force quit.

I jumped into activity monitor, and it spikes the CPU, then goes back to about 25%. Nothing else running.

I looked at some other posts - and grabbed clean my mac to see if I could clear the caches, then I reinstalled Office.

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It's still doing it though. Any ideas?

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