Outlook for Mac - Business
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End appointments and meetings early (25-minute meetings)
Allow Office for Mac users to set the default meeting duration to end early, i.e. 25 min for 30 minute meetings and 10 minutes less for 1+ hour meetings.
This feature is already supported on Windows client and on GSuite.
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Allow sending without receiving
Please allow us to send emails including replies to already received emails whilst choosing to not yet receive new emails from the server - like a 'partially online' setting. Exchange should allow this to allow us to deal with pending issues without the distraction of new emails constantly arriving.
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Please add an option to choose preferred calendar application more opening meeting invites.
by default outlook opens meeting invites in the outlook calendar, however I prefer to use apple calendar for this. which means it is easy to miss appointments because outlook only write to outlook calendar. the work around is to save the invite to disk (not alway possible is the ics file is not attached) and open it separately. outlook should have an option in preferences for the user to choose the ir preferred calendar application
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Fix recipient auto complete.
Recipient auto complete in Outlook Office 365 is severely lacking. Only a few of the most commonly used names of hundreds are referenced, requiring a hunt and peck search to find the correct recipient(s). In all other email providers recipient addresses are instantly presented. Why not this Windows product?
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Order by first name in Calendar
Please could we sort by first name in the shared calendars? It can be hard to remember everyone's surname. Would be helpful to have the option to do this
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Bug report - Local Inbox Sync
With irritating regularity, Outlook will not actually sync my local inbox - even after the 'Synchronize Now' button is used multiple times.
In these scenarios, I can attempt to quit and restart outlook (I frequently need to force quit), but the inbox still won't actually sync. If I want to actually receive new messages, I need to fully reboot my machine for outlook to pick up new messages. Force-syncing doesn't resolve the issue, quitting / force-quitting and re-starting Outlook doesn't solve the issue, only rebooting the machine does.
I am running on an up-to-date version of Mojave, and I keep…
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Reading pane to right - folders and conversation view
With reading pane set to the right and mails viewed as conversation, it would be very useful to see in the right pane list also the mails sent.
At the same time the mail list in the left, when developed, should show also the mails sent and those located in folders.
The folder name where each mail of the conversation is located should appear in this list.
This functionality is available on outlook.office.com3 votes -
Fix search results UI so that panel (once again) looks like inbox
Yesterday, Outlook for Mac 16.35 (20020507) began showing search results as a long list of truncated titles and dates. This is useless. I have to click on each-and-every one to view the message in the right pane (the UI does not expand the middle, search results, pane).
Search should "filter" emails and maintain the view I am using in my InBox! That's what it WAS doing before this update.
OH. And there is no "Feedback" option in the Help menu. Which is why I've resorted to UserVoice.
<head desk>
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Mail Vault - a Hardened Folder with Enhanced Privacy, Security and Encryption
Feature: Vault Folder
I want a "vault" folder with hardened encryption, access and authentication.
Imagine similar features to [OneDrive's Personal Vault](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/06/25/onedrive-personal-vault-added-security-onedrive-additional-storage/). Essentially I want similar features in Outlook.
Core Business Requirements
The core concepts of this suggested folder feature:
- Hardened encryption at rest
- Effective privacy enhancements
- Lockable, auto-lock and timeout
- Additional authentication
- Secure multi-factor authentication options
Nice to See
I would rather see some Vault-like feature than none.
To see this implemented "right" in my own view would need- Recovery Key Management
- Strong Open Cryptography
- Strong MFA
- Inhibited Access
- Exfiltration Protection
- Access Restrictions
- Privacy by Default
- Secure Development …
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SMIME is broken in the "new outlook" for MacOS (also the advanced account option is gone")
Reinstate the advanced account options to be able to configure and use S/MIME
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Give the ability to designate a default _sender_ address not just a default _reply-from_ address
Give the ability to designate a default sender address not just a default reply-from addr. I have both personal and work e-mail on my office computer which is acceptable use in my company. However, Outlook chooses the sender depending on what message I have currently selected. There is no way to specify that mail should always be sent from my work address. This has resulted in me accidently sending potentially sensitive company information through my Google mail. In addition to the potential security problem this represents, having the wrong sender confuses people from my company. Please help me stop getting…
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Show Unread Message count next to Smart Folders
Show Unread Message count next to Smart Folders, the same way it shows up for all other folders. The use case here is that I've created smart folders for mail in my Inbox that is from key people (one smart folder per person) that I need to prioritize. When new mail arrives from one of those people, I need a visual queue that a new message has arrived from that person.
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option to disable automatic Alt Text for images
whenever I add an (inline) image to a message, outlook automatically generates Alt Text to helpfully describe this graphic. please provide a way to disable this. I share design visuals many times a day, and this description is almost never even close: eg a recent effort was tagged as being 'A parrot'. which it really wasnt
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Add BCC when creating a mail merge from Word. Currently there is no way to add BCC field when creating a mail merge on a Mac vs PC
Similar to a PC running windows, really need the ability to add the BCC field when creating a mail merge. Cannot do this on a MAC.
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sync categories across platforms and users
1) If user is on Office 365 and using Mac Outlook client, should be able to have ONE consistent set of Categories, using same names and colors. Not separate categories for each platform (i.e. local categories on Outlook Mac, network categories on Office 365 client).
2) Should be able to establish "system wide" categories for multiple (Office 365) users, so that different users can organize mail, calendar, to do items in agreed-upon categories.1 vote -
3 votes
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Email templates
Make it easier to create Outlook messages from prebuilt and responsive email templates. Like Mailchimp but inside of Outlook.
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Allow Cmd + C and Cmd + V for mail attachments
attaching emails within the mails is very troublesome in Outlook Mac, there is no short cuts. I have to use drag and drop. Same applies for some file types too (e.g. pdf, jpg, pptx. .etc).
Just like Windows Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V for mail attachments, Request you to include similar feature Cmd + C and Cmd + V.
Appreciate for prioritizations.
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Add a calendar permission option for location only
Add an option in the calendar permissions so that others in your org and see the time and location where you're blocked but not the meeting title. The current option for location includes the meeting titles.
The purpose would be to allow others to see your location for scheduling meetings but still allows for some privacy. This is helpful for our org which frequently travels between meetings in 3 different buildings on campus.
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Tab for Bullet Indentation
Please restore the bullet indentation function to the tab key in Outlook for Mac. Updated to the latest version on both iMac and MacBook and found the function no longer works.
1 vote
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