New experiences in Outlook.com
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This is the forum where you can give us feedback about the new experiences in Outlook.com.
Please vote on ideas you like. If you have a new idea that hasn’t been submitted by anyone else, submit it. If you have many ideas, submit them separately. This will help us decide what to build next.
We’ll reply to top issues, and will consider other suggestions as well. Thanks for trying the beta!
For more information, check out our help page.
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The calendar is very confusing. Hard to edit entries. Go back to the old version or let us decide which version we want to use!
Get rid of the new "Beta" version
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Hard to tell between read and unread messages
I liked some of the ideas being used in beta, but I hate the new layout! I found it far less readable. It was more difficult to differentiate between read and unread messages quickly. I'd love the option to change the layout to what I prefer. It was enough to make me opt out.
2,685 votesThanks for your feedback on the Outlook.com beta. For the layout, if you prefer a layout with the reading pane off (you look at a full screen list of messages until you click on email email) in the beta you can click on settings and switch reading pane off. It will be on the first settings pane. For the read/unread feedback, we will continue to monitor this to make sure we strike the right balance.
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Sucks.....
Sucks.. Like sucks.. Every update it get worst.
62 votesThank you for your feedback. We appreciate that you took the time to write to us.
You might enjoy the new Outlook experience more with a few changes to your settings, which you can find by clicking the gear icon. Try changing the setting for Conversation view to Off, changing the setting for Reading pane to Hide, and changing the setting for Attachment preview to Off.
We’re always interested in new ideas, but we need some more specific feedback to fix the problem for you. If you have more detailed suggestions, please update your idea or add a new one.
You might also find this help article useful: aka.ms/outlookcombetahelp. It has some simple steps to fix common problems.
-The Outlook.com Team
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Where has the "Move all email from" option gone?
Where has the "Move all email from" option gone? It is no longer available under the "Move to" drop-down menu. I used to be able to open an email message, choose "Move to", then choose "Move all email from", it would auto-fill the sender from the selected message, then I would select a folder, and it would sweep my inbox and move all emails from that sender to a folder. I no longer see that option. The "Sweep" option only gives an option to delete. Very frustrating!
113 votesHi all – Thanks again for reporting this issue! I also wanted to let you know that it is now fixed, and everyone should be able to see Move All when they click on the Move button.
Hope this helps, and keep the feedback coming!
Thanks,
David Los
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why no email reminder option
Bring back email reminders
39 votesThank you for your feedback! The ability to set email reminders for events is now available in the Outlook.com calendar.
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Allow users to turn off the sender photos and color icons in the message list
Allow users to turn off the sender photos in the message list (the middle column of the three). It's overly busy for my tastes.
(Full disclosure, I'm a Microsoft employee)
2,644 votesThanks for the feedback!
To turn these off do the following:
1) Click on the Gear in the upper right hand corner
2) In the Quick Settings Pane that opened look for Sender Photos
3) You can enable or disable the Sender photos right there.
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Shrinking emails!!
the ads cause the email to shrink and makes it very hard to see the email. could you please remove the ads on the right side. Thanks
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PLEASE HELP WITH JUNK and SPAM!
PLEASE HELP WITH JUNK and SPAM!
I am getting A TON of really inappropriate and obviously spam e-mails. Whatever MSN and Hotmail are currently doing to ensure these do not come to our mailboxes (ANY folder, including JUNK - I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THIS!) is not working. Can I PLEASE speak to someone about this problem. It's been increasing over the last year and I'm really tired of it. It's not appropriate and these are very clearly not "real" e-mails. I do not have time in the day to block individually. PLEASE contact me about this problem. I'm…
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Email reminders in Beta are not visible
Thank you for finally putting email reminders into the Beta version of Calendar :-) However, unfortunately the Beta version it doesn't allow me to see the existing email reminders - there is a blue hyperlink, but nothing happens when I click on it. When I go from Beta back to Original calendar, I can see and edit the email reminders.
39 votesThank you for your feedback! The ability to set and edit email reminders for events is now available in the Outlook.com calendar.
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Keep it simple.
Email isn't for emojis & bright colors. Keep it clean and simple. There's too much noise everywhere else in the world.
I use my personal email to communicate with friends and family. I don't need to be entertained and over stimulated by gimmicks. I just want to send a message and easily find the ones I've received.
596 votesFirst off, I want to thank each and everyone of you for using Outlook.com and for taking the time to provide feedback on the new experience.
I know that a few different topics got merged down into this suggestion, so I wanted to offer some broad guidance on how you might configure the new experience to get it to look more like what you want.
Lets start off with the feedback about not wanting the bright colored circles, emojis, and joyful animations. All of these can be disabled. Click on the gear in the top right hand corner, this will load the quick setting pane. From here first disable the Sender Photos. This removes the colored circles with initials.
Then continue to scroll down and select view all Options. In this options page select Compose and Reply. In this page look for Joyful animations. turning this off will eliminate the…
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2,329 votes
We’ve now made it possible to block users in non-junk folders.
Select one or more emails and click the “Junk” dropdown in the top menu bar → “Block”, or right-click on the email and select “Block”.
Note: To block users in the Junk email folder, select the “Not junk” dropdown in the top menu bar → “Block”, or right-click on the email and select “Block”.
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Go back to old hotmail version - NO outlook
I dont like neither of the Outlook templates, the beta or the actual version. I use to love my hotmail template with my marks emails appearing first and everything most simple. Now with Outlook if I don't see it on my iphone, some of thenew emails that aririves to me doesn't appear in my home page and I have to look for them on "search" and and if it was not enough the "send" botton stopped working a few days ago and they haven't solve it so I cants send emails if is not trhough te awful beta version.
192 votesThank you for your feedback. We appreciate that you took the time to write to us.
You might enjoy the new Outlook experience more with a few changes to your settings, which you can find by clicking the gear icon. Try changing the setting for Conversation view to Off, changing the setting for Reading pane to Hide, and changing the setting for Attachment preview to Off.
We’re always interested in new ideas, but we need some more specific feedback to fix the problem for you. If you have more detailed suggestions, please update your idea or add a new one.
You might also find this help article useful: aka.ms/outlookcombetahelp. It has some simple steps to fix common problems.
-The Outlook.com Team
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Make Dark Mode work with other Themes
The outlook.com dark mode is great start. Please make the Outlook.com Dark Mode even darker! Remove the blue title bar and all blue from the Dark Mode (at least give us the option). Blue light is bad for the eyes!
It appears the black theme is disabled for dark mode. We need a total blackout mode.
74 votesMaking additional themes work with Dark Mode is something we plan to do in the future. Thanks for reaching out!
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Multiple Email Reminder
Please add Multiple Email Reminder option while booking an event - this was always there in your old design/format.
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Problem with "Manage Subscriptions" & Junk Email
Within the past 2 weeks I've been receiving excessive junk mail in my inbox, and most of it relates to subscriptions that I did not request, but which now show under Manage Subscriptions. I keep blocking the emails and have unsubscribed to the subscriptions in the mail tools, but I never had this problem before.
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Need to have the ability to have multiple email reminders for calendar events
Need to have the ability to have multiple email reminders for calendar events like I could do before. And when you make changes we should be able to keep the old view. Constant change is lost productivity. Bad for business.
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Beta not good for me
The new version is not good because the many parameters and adjustable options of the old version have disappeared. I need to be able to set more than what is possible in the new version, as rules of messages, aliases, ....
305 votesHello – First off, I just wanted to thank everyone for responding and providing all of the valuable feedback. More importantly I also want to thank you for using Outlook.com.
I did want to update everyone and let them know that we have re-introduced all of the options that were in the old experience. This took a bit of time, as we wanted to make sure we were designing simplified experiences for everyone.
Please keep the great feedback coming!
David Los
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SAFE SENDERS BROKEN!!
Safe Senders all deleted and cannot save new ones!!
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add attendee
There is no way to add someone to a meeting in the edit menu. Seriously?!?
400 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for adding attendees to calendar events in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience.
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I want solid color backgrounds back for categories on all-day events. With only colored text, the events are much harder to spot.
Solid color backgrounds for all-day events.
43 votes
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