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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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Need an option to turn OFF predictive text.
Provide an option to turn on/OFF predictive text:
1) just for the current email
2) for all emails10 votesThank you for using Outlook.com and providing feedback!
To turn off text predictions:
1) At the top of the page, select Settings > View all Outlook settings > Mail > Compose and reply.
2) Under Text predictions, clear the Suggest words or phrases as I type check box.For more information, please see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-intelligent-technology-in-outlook-on-the-web-and-outlook-com-24b30683-8340-4b69-b8ac-4193ec528a70
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auto
I already know what I mean to say. Please make all auto features optional so they can be turned on/off manually.
53 votesWe’re sorry you’re not finding these features helpful. All our intelligent features have settings that can be individually disabled by going to:
Settings → Mail → Compose and reply, and finding the respective feature.From the issue opened here, it sounds like this could be one of two items:
1) Text predictions: Outlook suggesting words of phrases as you type a message.
To disable: Settings → Mail → Compose and reply → Text predictions → Uncheck “Suggest words of phrases as I type”
2) Microsoft Editor: Outlook can help find spelling and grammar mistakes, or suggest alternate ways to rewrite sentences you’ve written by flagging them with an underline.
To disable: Settings → Mail → Compose and reply → Microsoft Editor → “Microsoft Editor settings”.
From here you can select which types of corrections/suggestions you’d like to see, or turn them off completely.—
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Hide Specific Spelling/Grammar Suggestions
I want an option to hide individual spelling/grammar suggestions. I disagree with one of the suggestions and don't want to see the blue underlines. They are distracting.
64 votesThank you for using Outlook.com and your feedback! To modify which suggestions appear:
1) Go to Mail > Compose and reply.
2) Under Microsoft Editor, go to Microsoft Editor Settings.
3) Switch options on and off for the corrections and refinements you want.Alternatively, while writing an email draft:
1) Select Editor in the compose ribbon at the bottom of your message.
2) Click to select or deselect suggestion types (Spelling, Grammar, or Writing Refinement).You can find more information on Microsoft Editor here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/check-grammar-spelling-and-more-in-outlook-com-and-outlook-on-the-web-c6b1283d-81a2-47f1-bc85-9e8dfc0cbf15
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Remove news folder
Please add the option to remove the news folder from the left sidebar completely.
71 votesThank you for the feedback! You should be able to right click this folder from the list of folder to hide it.
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New Search bar location doesn't work for me.
I really don't like the new location of the Search bar in Outlook. I wish we had more control over these things. Not every idea is a good one and Microsoft's propensity for trying to control everyone's user experience is what drives users to Apple.
112 votesClosed as this is specific to Outlook on Win32, not Outlook.com consumer.
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sign out button
provide separate sign out/log out button. NOT from a drop down menu.
12 votesHi,
I believe we were having an issue that has since been resolved.
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Files menu EXPANDED?? Why?!!!!
Why Outlook opens with Files menu expanded??!! I don't want that everyone may seen it!!
87 votesHi, thank you for your feedback! We were experimenting with this view, but decided not to keep it. You should see that the files menu has returned to the previous layout.
Thanks!
Colin -
Add option to remove Files/Groups folders from mail section
Allow people to disable the Files folder and the Groups folder. Some people find they take up to much room on the
59 votesThank you for the feedback. The files folder was something we were experimenting with and has since been removed
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Phishing spanish translation
You have mistranslated the word "phishing", you have translated it as "pesca" which is the Spanish word for "fishing". Either you put back phishing or you put identity theft, because "pesca" is ridiculous.
28 votesHi,
Thank you for the feedback. Our team has looked into this and made updates
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Files Folder
The Files folder is now expanding by itself upon opening Outlook and causing everything to be slow to load.
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Move or hide the "Files" section on the left bar
The new section "Files" in the left bar (to access fast to the email attachments) should be moved below the main Mail Directories, because the main use of the interface is navigate between mails and not files.
33 voteswe were testing this bud decided not to move forward with this design. Thank you for the feedback.
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outlook theme colors
The colors for Outlook are now electric blue and slightly darker electric blue. Why? The Outlook colors were already there. Why remove them? Microsoft seems to take away more and more customer autonomy and personal expression with each update. We need to have themes and/or more colors re-added, please.
0 votesHi there – Thanks for using outlook.com. I just wanted to let you know that we do indeed have themes. If you click on the gear in the top right hand corner you can click and change to a variety of themes.
Thanks!
David Los
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Blocked emails going into deleted box
blocked mail going into deleted box when it was deleted on blocking
8 votesThanks for your feedback. When you block a sender, we will add that sender to your Blocked Senders list and also move that email to Deleted Items.
Colin
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Ads
I do not think ads should be able to track people they way you currently allow . Roger McNamee is right big tech is getting out of hand. Better opt out options are needed
Thanks Terry3 votesHi there – Thank you for using Outlook.com and for providing feedback. I did want to quickly let you know that there are a couple of options for our advertisments.
1) We offer an ad free experience for our Office 365 subscribers. Not only do you get ad free, but you also get other benefits like the office apps, as well as additional storage on OneDrive.
2) All ads that show up also have an ad choices icon. From there you are able to opt out of any targeting the ad providers use.
Thanks
David Los
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Advertising
Please add a "deactivate all" button to the advertising companies selection!
1 voteHi there – Thank you for providing feedback about Outlook.com.
We do offer an ad free experience, all Office 365 subscribers get ad free experience.
Thanks!
David Los
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Kudos
Since this time last year hotmail has certainly gotten better. I have several different email accounts with other entities and I must say your sign-in is the best. Don't change it, there's absolutely no reason to...
0 votesThank you for using Outlook.com! We really love to hear from our users! We will continuing to work to improve. Please keep feedback coming.
David Los
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Update Outlook so that email addresses with abnormal characters (not "special" or normal) can be blocked by command and rules.
There is A LOT, and I really mean A LOT, of spam mails that use email addresses which include characters that we don't normally find anywhere in ASCII. We need Outlook to become able to block and IMMEDIATELY REMOVE email addresses that include non-ASCII characters, very badly.
These email spammers are willing to make any nonsense character be inserted into the sending address at any cost, just to waste space and time.
26 votesThe fix for this should be rolling out over the next couple weeks!
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Deliver messages from blocked senders in the Junk Email folder as well as redeem the Quarantine message action configured list via spam filt
I would like messages from blocked senders to be delivered in the Junk Email folder with the Quarantine message action redeemed at the same time.
9 votesThanks for your feedback! We are going to continue delivering blocked emails to the Deleted Items folder.
Colin
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Add dark mode to outlook loading screen
Add dark mode to outlook loading screen
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Fix bug of Outlook.live.com page refreshing every second
Outlook.live.com page refreshing every second bug. no chrome extensions loaded at all. have to close chrome and open it back up again for normal function.
2 votesThis has been fixed. Thank you for reporting!
Colin
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