I would like the ability to select & delete multiple emails without reading them
Provide a check box for each email, as before.
Anonymous
shared this idea
December 2017: A checkbox has always been available in the message list for you to select multiple items with. Moving your mouse cursor over the colored circles that have sender pictures (on the left side in the message list), you will find an unfilled checkbox for you to check. You can perform multi-select actions this way, before deleting.
77 comments
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Tyler
commented
Seconded. At the minute, it seems like you need to delete the ENTIRE conversation, or go through and delete one at a time. A nuisance when you have a lot to do.
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Monique
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Sometimes I don't want to delete all the emails in my inbox, but I also don't like to individually mark each email. In the beta, I miss being able to check the checkbox at the top and only the visible emails on my screen were marked for deletion. Something that I didn't think too much about until it was no longer available.
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Peter Neil
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Can't seem to delete multiple emails especially in junk folder - you used to be able to check a box and select several emails and then del
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Eric Kaba
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I don't like it. It takes more effort to select (click a check mark in the box next to a message).
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Anonymous
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the look and feel is significantly better, yet please fix two things:
1- when trying to delete more than one email, in many occasion, your previous selection goes away since the selection box is small, so minor increase in the size of the selection circle will help a lot2- I tried to press on reply and reply all 3 times with no success and that is why I had to revert to the previous outlook, I saw the button yet it did not accept the command
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Sean
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...I couldn't find an intuitive way to select individual junk mail without the first selection always opening in the preview pane. :-( ...to reiterate, I couldn't find an intuitive way to select multiple mail without the preview window showing the first selection.
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Anonymous
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I didn't even notice the selection buttons and thought you had deleted the capability completely
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Anonymous
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It's hard to see new e-mails. I also can't check off e-mails I want to delete quickly. I have to do them individually. Love the Pictures
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Anonymous
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It would be nice to de-select highlighted messages after selecting "all", without deselecting everything, to more easily perform the deleting of multiple emails at a time. It is quite painful selecting multiple emails and deleting them. Every upgrade seems to make this harder.... the Ad-riden online browser is much easier.
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Jason
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Check boxes next to each message need to be a bit bigger, it's annoying when trying to select a bunch, but you're slightly off and your selected messages become unchecked
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Кирилл Щетинин commented
Absolutly Agreement! I post similar idea about pop up quick action icons.
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Anonymous
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Please bring back the boxes to click next to the emails. The little check marks in the person's name are too small and not noticeable enough. The old way worked really well.
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Anonymous
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I liked selecting a limited number of emails to delete and deselecting the ones in the group I actually wanted to read. If would be great if it did say 10 emails at a time with the option to deselect individual emails for reading later.
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Donald Oremus
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Being able to delete unwanted email before reading email should be simple as the "old" Outlook. It may be, but I also did not receive any real instructions on how to maneuver using the "new" Outlook either, going into it almost totally blind on how to do things
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Michelle
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I'm unable to do many things - deleting multiple messages at once, or making a meassing "Junk" or how to print something. Today I had something sent that I should have been able to print and couldn't.
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Anonymous
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I like to select multiple deletes like the old outlook. It makes it much easier to have a second look before I delete folders.
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Dom Brown
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The buttons for selecting multiple emails for deletion, moving to another folder ect. are a little too small in my opinion and make it difficult to multi select quickly and efficiently. They could do with being slightly larger or square like you had them in the older version.
