In previous additions of Outlook it was possible to type a keyword in the windows search box, and e-mails (not just files) would be displayed. This is no longer possible, you can now only search for e-mails from within Outlook. Please bring back the ability to search from the Windows search box. Ideally, provision of options like AND, OR, NOT and XOR or you could “find with all terms”, “Find with any term”, find without term, etc. would be beneficial including Boolean search functions. Also within the Search toolbar enable search capabilities so that we are able to toggle between desired selections listed above easily without having to go through settings and select advanced views.

Make it possible to display as well as store all the information related to a contact in People section in Microsoft Outlook 2016 to make it more effective to use. Phone numbers stored and displayed should include all the information in Microsoft Outlook 2016 which include area code and the country code not just the local number. Also if we can get the postal code or Zip Code to auto populate based on the address entered it would be an added benefit. Addition or customization and addition of business card is also needed.

Also i would really like to be able to copy and paste a photo into a contact’s profile without having to save that photo to my PC or cloud.

In Microsoft Outlook 2010, it was possible to configure the application to automatically format a phone number. This automatic formatting included adding the country code.

This feature is useful and gives us the ability to have Outlook automatically format phone numbers completely. Would love to have tabs in contacts - for instance, personal contact list, work etc

When displaying contacts to add as Members of a Group, please add a way to show email addresses only and not FAX numbers. I often don’t know the name of the person I have to send the email to, but I need to send it to a certain company, So I would like to just put the name of the company and it finds all contacts I saved with that company name.

Also when dragging and dropping an email onto the Contacts icon to create a new contact, the new contact card is only populated with email address, and we have to manually cut and paste, drag, other details – company, job title, phone numbers – from the email’s signature. It would be good if Outlook could use AI to identify those fields from the email signature and auto-populate them.

It would be helpful if Microsoft provided an app to convert an OST file to a PST file. Currently, customers must find third-party software to perform the conversion. Also provide a feature or an option to convert other email file formats to .PST or other email formats in Microsoft Outlook as well to make it more productive.

Hallo Zusammen,

folgender Fall:

• Mein Outlook wird mit einem als Imap Konto betrieben. Neben den Serverdateien habe ich auch lokal gespeicherte Kontakte.




• Wegen eines Grafiktreiberfehlers musste ich Windows 10 wurde komplett aufgefrischt.




• Nach der Neuinstallation von Office wollte ich meine Kontaktdaten aus der Imap, .ost Datei wieder extrahieren.




• Dies funktioniert nicht mit Outlook, was ich jetzt auch nach langer Internetrecherche bestätigt bekommen habe.




• Die einzige Möglichkeit: ca. 60€ ausgeben für ein Konverter Programm was aus meiner .ost eine .pst macht, die sich einlesen läßt.

Meine Frage an Alle: Wißt Ihr wie sich das Problem ohne ein Programm zu kaufen lösen läßt?

Meine Frage an Microsoft: Was um Himmels willen hält euch davon ab eine einfach Lösung für diese (im Internet sehr oft diskutierte) Problem zu schaffen

Hello,
in outlook when we affect a category to mail a square of the category's color normally appears in the "category" column.
But in Outlook 2016, according to the place where you have placed the column "category", the colored square appears or not :
- If the column is placed to the right, the colored square appears.
- If the column is placed to the left (what I want) the colored square is not displayed. Only the text. This unpractical for all previewed different categories.

It's a bug and I've reported it as such to the Outlook Team. Thanks!
A current workaround would be to format the Reminder column to "On/Off";
View-> View Settings-> Format Columns...-> Reminder-> Format: On/Off
Make sure that this column is listed before the Categories column. This actually works with any other non-icon formatted column in front of the Categories column.