Obligitory “I have to use it for my job,” so let’s commiserate.
It’s the worst program in all of the Office Suite. MS wrote the goddamn OS and email client, but for some reason if I have two instances open for two different inboxes and try to pull one up on the taskbar, the wrong instance will pull up every single time without fail.
My runner-up complaint is how when I use the search bar, sometimes it’ll forget what I’m doing and when I hit enter it’ll open some email instead of executing the search.
Every update makes it worse, so what drives you crazy?
Outlook doesn’t use email addresses to route e-mail with Exchange servers. Instead it uses some internal “address” that is longer than the actual e-mail address. This becomes a problem when an e-mail account is deleted and then recreated later. And the old internal address is still in some users Outlook addressbook. Because the internal address changes when the account is recreated.
My inbox view gets messed up every now and then and I have to keep resetting it.
An old bug that they’re determined not to fix. It’s been happening to me at 3 different jobs now
The minimize button closes the application.
Important emails from contacts I had for years flagged as spam.
Ctrl+f is not find
Came here to say this. Ctrl+f is find in every other Microsoft product, it’s their own damn standard.
Did you know that Microsoft changes keyboard shortcuts based on locale? In Italian they set search to Shift+F5.
Shit drives me crazy.That makes sense. The Italian word for find doesn’t start with f
It doesn’t start with F5 either, and why shift? What’s more, it’s inconsistent, sometimes they still use ctrl+f, and every other application uses that anyway
Most of the F keys had other meanings, so shift, as all shifted f keys were open
Every other application
Don’t blame Microsoft for other applications not being localised
New Outlook pretends to support RSS, but there’s no way to trigger an update.
The search function is useless
Doesn’t help that when it does work, I can’t delete everything it finds at one time. I have to repeat the search multiple times. Crazy
Outlook always forces me to categorize like it’s 2005. I’ve got two dozens folders because shit is unfindable.
Same. Also when I set rules to send stuff to specific folders sometimes I cant see them there, but if I search for the email specifically it finds it. WTF?
I found out by accident, when I was checking a new daily report and some dates were not visible in the folder, but I could find them via search.
I am willing to forget pretty much any fault on Outlook when I compare it with the absolute dogshit product that is New Outlook.
Click on a Toast and it opens the email… in the background, never in the foreground.
Have anything other than Email selected (calendar, for example) and it doesn’t display the New Email notification on the tile, so if you didn’t see the toast and have anything other then Outlook open in the foreground, you don’t know you’ve got new email until you physically go back to Outlook and click on the Email button.
Want to send a spreadsheet as an email attachment from within Excel? The option is there, but it doesn’t work any more (and the same for any other native “send via email” option in your OS out applications).
Want to send a document as an attachment? You have to open a new email, then drag the document into the correct half of the email, because if you have it too far to the left, Outlook will upload it into OneDrive and put a link to it in the email.
I could go on, but fuck me, it’s absolutely disgusting how much this breaks any previous workflow you may have had for doing email quickly and efficiently…
New outlook simply removed macros. Thanks Microsoft, I now have to go through all my inbox one email by one email when I come back from leave.
Yeesh. I’ve been (blessedly) away from MS for a bit now so I’m kind of catching up / watching the carnage from afar.
When you jack up veteran user workflows so much that it makes the OS feel alien…you’re really just daring people to jump OS. I know it’s not that simple for work environments, but I can’t imagine administering this sloppy mess has gotten any easier, so…gonna be fun waiting for the suits to eventually catch up I guess.
The spreadsheet thing isn’t outlook, that’s going to be a thing your workplace has set up for security
I bet it doesn’t stop a word document with a spreadsheet inside as an object
They keep pushing new outlook so hard, but it is still lacking basic features. Want to add a contact with a vcf file? Nope, can’t do that. Want to have access to other email boxes? Nope, can’t do that. Want to send an email without being prompted that you may have forgotten an attachment? Nope. OK OK, but they say its better and we should all use it. Fine, I’ll bite. OK so can I get my mobile app to function the same way? Nope. No “new” app for mobile.
OneDrive crashes not only the original computer I had the problem on, but the replacement computer that I got (upgrade) as well. Then when I moved to a different office, it crashed another computer and then created the same problem for the one other person using the computer.
And by crashing, I mean the second it tries to do anything everything freezes, and the only way to get out of it is a hard reset.
So OneDrive.
Like 2 years ago the search was really good. I’m always using referencing or updating all documents. So being able to find them quickly is a huge help in my day to day.
The search bar used to work almost instantly and find anything matching the title or even content in any document I wanted. Now even typing in the exact title doesn’t pull up the document I’m looking for half the type.
Adding a group. You can now only add one email address at a time. Got a group of 100? Best clear your afternoon.
The new version written in JavaScript and spite. Everything about that.
I resend a lot of email. Reply all, update subject, screenshots etc. A few seconds after you reply all, above the to field you start getting status updates. You’re not replying to the latest email. This will be sent to xx people etc. It shifts all the fields down, so my click into the subject to remove the RE: is now editing the cc field instead.
Meeting requests tracking, oh my god. It’s a great feature but it’s got so many quirks.
Once you decline a meeting, it’s gone for good in your calendar. If you accidentally declined, you need to ask for another invite. More commonly, plans changed and now you can’t attend when you could have because you forgot all about it.
You can’t decline important meetings and still see them in your calendar, so people abuse ‘tentative’ as ‘I want to know when this meeting takes place but I won’t attend myself’
Can’t organize a meeting and then don’t attend yourself. Impossible. Neither can you transfer ownership when you’re going on holiday for example, so people are stuck with meeting requests nobody can change
Good luck getting a long series of meetings accepted by a meeting room. Every single instance must be available, that’s annoying but makes sense. You can cancel or move individual instances until the meeting room accepts it, but everyone gets spammed with invites.
After you made all manual changes and the meeting room finally accepted it, if you make any changes to the series, everything is reset and the manual adjustments starts all over
If you have to move one or two specific instances to a different room, you can’t! You can move in time or cancel an instance, but using the next available room is not possible. Both rooms will decline
Once you decline a meeting, it’s gone for good in your calendar. If you accidentally declined, you need to ask for another invite.
If you decline a meeting the original meeting will be moved to the trash. So go to trash and you can accept it again.
Yes, it’s new in the new Outlook
One thing that I hate about it is, if a notification pops up and you are on a different screen or in a different app, when you mouse over the notification to click it to go away, rather than sending the notification away, it sends it to the background and brings outlook to the front.
So you then have to minimize outlook or move it out of the way to get to the notification screen to close the notification screen.
Also it continuously disables extensions because it’s so fucking prioritized on minimizing boot-up time that it does not give a single fuck about how much extra time you have to waste re-enabling the goddamn extensions that you need in order to do your job.
We’re paying good money for these extensions.
We want them.
We don’t care about 1.3 fucking seconds of time it takes for Outlook to start up as long as we have the functionality, and Microsoft’s Outlook keeps disabling them.
If this were a single computer, it would be a hassle. But this is company-wide, having to constantly train and go over how to re-enable the extensions that we need to keep enabled in order for our employees to do their fucking job that we’re paying Microsoft $25 a month per person for.
or how about how Microsoft forces, Microsoft accounts to be created, but won’t allow Microsoft accounts to be created using organization credentials.
But then it goes behind your back and creates a Microsoft account for every single organization credential.
And then it hides that from you inside of Edge so that you first have to remove the organization credential from Edge and then do a search and then remove the organization credential from being inside of Edge just to stop Edge from having an organization credential that it uses to track every single user in your organization and every single thing that they do.
So yeah, fuck Microsoft.
I’m really starting to wonder if they just might fuck up their products so badly it fucks up their insanely strong market position enough to be replaced.
MS used to be more careful with the corporate/ enterprise side. Some notable exceptions of course, the tiles-only “mobile-tap-first” interface of 8 was rough on users, but forcing that on their server 2012 OS was an abomination.
But the stuff outta MS lately is just nutso.
The problem is, is that they basically have everybody on the planet trained to use Microsoft Office.
Because of that, pretty much every company in the world uses it.
So no matter how much they fuck it up, people are going to keep using it because of the difficulty of switching over to an alternative like LibreOffice.