The new 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!
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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
205 votesThanks for your feedback! If you have more detailed suggestions for how we could improve your calendar experience, please let us know in a new feedback entry. We need to know which things we should reconsider!
Colin
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Calendar events only display as dots on the date of the event; there is no event description
Events on the calendar do not appear as text, only as several dots.
114 votesThank you for the feedback! Our team has been hard at work and we have a fix that is rolling out now. We are now displaying more events, even for those with smaller screens.
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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.
74 votesHey everyone, we actually support email reminders in the new version of Outlook!
First, click on the calendar event to open it up. Then you will see a bell that says “Remind me:”. Click on “Remind me:” to open the reminder option menu. In order to add an email reminder, scroll to the bottom of that menu and click on “Add email reminder”, You can then add as many email reminders as you want!
Colin
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More options for reminder times
Miss being able to add alerts. ie a week two days and two hours, as with the old version.
146 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for e-mail reminders in the new Outlook.com is now complete. On any event under “Remind me”, you can go to “Add email reminder” and select the time you wish.
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Keep Notes Section In Calendar Event
When making a calendar event in the current Outlook.com there is a section to add notes. This is missing in the Beta Calendar. Notes are visible in the Beta from entries made in the current Outlook.com Calendar but you are unable to edit them. I use the notes section to remind me of details about calendar events. The loss of this option would force me to use a different Calendar app/service.
767 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for notes in a calendar event in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience.
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Low-contrast colors in Outlook.com Beta Calendar
The color scheme used by the new Outlook.com Beta Calendar - particularly on the Month view, which this feedback is referring to - is a huge step backwards in user-friendliness and accessible design.
I make extensive use of categories in my calendar, with each category using a different color. With the pre-beta Outlook.com Calendar, the calendar appointments on the Month view were displayed as a solid, high-contrast, rectangular block of bold color with the title in bold text inside the block. The colors and styling closely matched those used in the Outlook 2016 desktop client, which made it very easy…
85 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for an option to switch to more saturated calendar colors in the new Outlook is now complete.
If you would like to try out this experience, please click on the gear icon in the top right of your calendar module to access your settings, and toggle “Bold event colors”.
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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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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.
40 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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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.
47 votesThank you for your feedback! We have just released an option to switch to more saturated calendar colors in the new Outlook.
If you would like to try out this experience, please click on the gear icon in the top right of your calendar module to access your settings, and toggle “Bold event colors”.
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add attendee
There is no way to add someone to a meeting in the edit menu. Seriously?!?
402 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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Want Classic Back too!
The colors on Classic were dark and distinct. Every entry I made was categorized and I could easily tell an appt, from something related to my daughters school to a simple reminder. Now with Beta the colors are all muted, pastel and on some entries, don't even exist. Why would you change it? It looks weak. At least bring back the vibrant colors option.
8 votesThank you for your feedback! We have just released an option to switch to more saturated calendar colors in the new Outlook.
If you would like to try out this experience, please click on the gear icon in the top right of your calendar module to access your settings, and toggle “Bold event colors”.
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Why mess around with Calendar?
New calendar can't send email reminders. I use Calendar to send myself email reminders of events. In the new Outlook version you took away the ability to click directly into the email reminder to change the date of the calendar event - which I complained about months ago with no response. Now you have messed it up even more, taking away the option to send myself email reminders of calendar events at all. A pop-up reminder on my lock screen is absolutely useless - I need to receive an email reminder as I have done for years. Why mess around…
27 votesHey! You can set email reminders on calendar events. Go to the calendar event and click on Remind Me. Then scroll to the bottom of the list where it says “Add email reminder”.
Hope this helps!
Colin
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Calendar reminder emails cannot be set/edited any longer (since Feb 1st, 2019)
Calendar reminder emails cannot be set/edited any longer (since Feb 1st, 2019)
28 votesHey, we support email reminders! Click on “Remind me” in the calendar form, and then scroll to the bottom to where it says “Add email reminder”.
The calendar team will look at whether we could make this button more prominent.
Hope this helps!
Colin
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categories with colors in calendar
I liked the previous feature of having categories with different colors in the calendar. Having colors makes it easier for me to know what should be done, compared to charms. eg have a red category for deadlines and a green for completed. that way i briefly scan my calendar page and i know all the information i need.
346 votesThanks for trying the Outlook.com beta! We’re excited to announce categories are now available in calendar to color-code your events.
Right-click on an event and select “Categorize”.
Please keep all of the great feedback coming!
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Calendar colors are not as sharp and deep
Use Classic
20 votesThank you for your feedback! We have just released an option to switch to more saturated calendar colors in the new Outlook on the web.
If you would like to try out this experience, please click on the gear icon in the top right of your calendar module to access your settings, and toggle “Bold event colors”.
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Search calendar feature needed
We would like to search the calendar for events like we can for emails
275 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for the calendar search feature in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience.
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16 votes
Thank you for your feedback! We have just released an option to switch to more saturated calendar colors in the new Outlook.
If you would like to try out this experience, please click on the gear icon in the top right of your calendar module to access your settings, and toggle “Bold event colors”.
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FADE COLOURS
PLEASE MAKE SOMETHING WITH THE COLOURS.BRING BACK THE PREVIOUS COLOURS OR MAKE THE NEW A LITTLE MORE DARKER.
11 votesThank you for your feedback! We have just released an option to switch to more saturated calendar colors in the new Outlook.
If you would like to try out this experience, please click on the gear icon in the top right of your calendar module to access your settings, and toggle “Bold event colors”.
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Calendar
In the old calendar, I had all my appointments colour coded (Medical, Classes, various categories etc.) and was very impressed with how it all synced with my iPhone and iPad but now the colours dont come up the same and it the calendar looks very enimic. I wish I could go back to the old way. As I printed out the calendar to put on wall and could follow everything clearly, since the changes I have had trouble printing the calendar etc.
15 votesThank you for your feedback! We have just released an option to switch to more saturated calendar colors in the new Outlook.
If you would like to try out this experience, please click on the gear icon in the top right of your calendar module to access your settings, and toggle “Bold event colors”.
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calendar colors changed
Why would you change the colors from one version to the next. Keep the colors the same in the new version.
52 votesThank you for your feedback! We have just released an option to switch to more saturated calendar colors in the new Outlook.
If you would like to try out this experience, please click on the gear icon in the top right of your calendar module to access your settings, and toggle “Bold event colors”.
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