2 options for 'select all' checkbox: Select All in view vs everything
In the old view I can select all, and have it select only the visible messages. With this new beta select all seems to select my entire inbox. I would like both options.
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131 comments
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Vlad
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Hi Admin and Microsoft Software Engineers. Please wake up to the task (promised May 28, 2019) of adding the Delete Check Box and Select All to Outlook; it was there on previous versions. How did a productivity related feature get removed?
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robmm76 commented
Page by page selection. It would be very helpful to have an option to select all the items visible on the currect page of the Inbox. The option to select the entire Inbox is far too course for most cleanup purposes.
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M
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Currently, I can 'select all' emails in a folder but I cant move them anywhere! I want to have the 'move to..' option active (esp in junk folder) when I 'select all' to allow me to select any folder in my outlook so I can move large amounts of emails at one time. This is so useful when I know there is something important in my junk mail but I know I wont be able to get to it before it is automatically deleted. Thanks!
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Ian
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please bring back "select items in view". either make it an option along with entire selection or ONLY MAKE IT SELECT ITEMS IN VIEW. deleting an entire folder of email is not really a useful or oftenly used option. thanks
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Anonymous
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Seriously - why isnt this fixed yet!
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hawkins71
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The old version selected only the messages visibly showing on the screen, which was immensely useful for clearing out messages I didn't need to read. "Select all" is now functionally useless, because it selects literally the entire inbox -- and I'm not putting in hours to get down to inbox zero for my Hotmail account. I wake up with 70 or so new messages every day -- manually selecting each one is a pain in the neck (especially when one misaligned click opens up an e-mail and wipes out every selection I've made up to that point).
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Anonymous
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Select emails
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d a
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agree this email is now unuseable I will start forwarding to Yahoo I guess and start switching all my accounts connected to this email as now I cannot check things efficiently and keep track of shipments etc.
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Carol Cox
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Having to spend too much time cleaning up the inbox. Please restore selecting only the visible messages.
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Anonymous
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Absolutely agree! I will no longer be able to use this email if it is not corrected.
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Mike
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Bring back the ability to select all messages in view and then delete the ones you want.Ticking one box that deletes everything in the folder is ridiculous and dangerous in that you will lose messages you want to keep
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Kara Johnson
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bring back the feature to check only the messages in view instead of the entire inbox!!! I keep lots of messages in my inbox but also get lots of messages I don't necessarily want to read each day in my inbox. I liked being able to hit one button and have all the emails in the current view window selected then I can go through them and unselect the ones I actually want to read. now, I have to click on the select button for each message and that takes awhile and sometimes I miss and then have to start all over. very frustrating.
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eaglewings22
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WHEN are you going to fix the painfully slow scroll bar to the right of the email inbox & elsewhere??? AND the ability to CHOOSE whether to have pinned items at the top of the inbox or mixed in, or elsewhere. AND the ability to "select all IN THE WINDOW" instead of the entire folder??!!
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Anonymous
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When I click select above all the emails, I ONLY need to select all the emails I SEE on the screen. I don't want to select all the emails in the folder. Please go back to the old way.
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Anonymous
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When I click select above all the emails, I ONLY need to select all the emails I SEE on the screen. I don't want to select all the emails in the folder. Please go back to the old way.
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Anonymous
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When I click select above all the emails, I ONLY need to select all the emails I SEE on the screen. I don't want to select all the emails in the folder. Please go back to the old way.
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Paul Bloodworth
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When i select all emails it literally selects everything, not just the items in view. (Which is how it used to work). This is very annoying, especially in junk mail as I want to select a page at a time.
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kimgarst
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Selecting all messages on current view screen to delete. I am HATING that when I click select all now, it selects ALLLLLLL the messages in the entire folder! I want to be able to select all the messages on the current screen so I can delete many messages quicker! Restore the old select all feature or I am going to have to find a new email! It takes me forever to select each message individually.
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foztoons
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Now when you click on select beside the Inbox or other Icons, it selects ALL the messages in that folder instead of the ones visible in your reading pane?! RIDICULOUS
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Anonymous
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In the new version if you select delete at the very top to mark the emails going down it selects all of them whereas in the previous version it would only select the ones you could view on the page. Please bring that back because if you have a lot of emails to delete checking them manually is time-consuming. Thank you
