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!
For more information, check out our help page.
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The colours to choose are so ugly and not enough of them anyway.
The colours to choose are so ugly and not enough of them anyway.
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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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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colors suck
brighter colors on bata now that we are forced onto it.
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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solid background
Since I use the calendar for my shift schedule (which consists of both recurring and one-time appointments that can span both single and multiple days) the multi-day events are more important to me and I need them to have a colored background box. While the old calendar could use a dedicated shift feature, the colored background box for multi-day events was decently useful. Having that replaced with the thin dotted lines makes it really bad for this purpose.
For other people, though, things might be different. Why not give us the option to choose whether we want solid background colors…
10 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 sharing
how can I share my calendar?
57 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for sharing calendars in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience.
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Email Reminder Time Frame Too Limited
In the current outlook.com calendar there is an option to remind you of a calendar event at 5-6 different intervals within a hour and day. There is also the option to remind you at 1, 2, 3, days and 1 or 2 weeks. You can set up multiple reminders per calendar entry. For example you can have a reminder for an entry at 30 minutes, 4 hours, 2 days, or 2 weeks before the event. You can use one or all of those reminders.
Using the beta I created a calendar entry that only gave the option for 5 minutes…98 votesUpdate March 2018:
Thanks for trying the Outlook.com beta! We’ve added additional reminder options. When you create or edit events you’ll see the full range.
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27 votes
Thank you for your feedback! The deployment for adding attendees and editing the description 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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repeating or recurring events
Not enough flexibility scheduling repeating events. Can't schedule a repeating event every other week. Current Outlook provides excellent flexibility.
54 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for more flexible options for recurring events in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience.
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Old Colors that pop out to you
All-Day events no longer pop out with the highlighted colors - those are my monthly reminders and recurring dates that NEED to stand out to me. If anything, the day-to-day appointments and schedule COULD be unhighlighted.
7 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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Stop Birthday email reminders
I get calendar reminders for birthday's of people I don't know and they are not in my address book, how can I stop this? Please add a link to the reminder email where i can edit or delete the reminder.
89 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for editing reminders on your birthday events is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience. For more information on how to manage your birthday calendars, please see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/add-a-holiday-or-birthday-calendar-in-outlook-com-b8e636da-fda8-413f-940e-68396efa49a6.
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Missing ability to move events between calendars
I can't move events between calendars that I own in the beta.
93 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for enabling events to be moved between calendars in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience.
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I cannot delete some calendars.
I cannot delete some calendars in outlook.com.
I have some secondary calendars in outlook.com. I tried to delete them, but it didn't work.
3 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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default calendar
Need an option to set default calendar for new events. I have a shared calendar which I'd like to set as default, but everytime I create a new event it starts within the Personal Calendar. Some version ago it was possible (like, the last calendar selected for the last event would have been the default calendar for new events)
8 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for creating events in a default calendar and enabling events to be moved between calendars in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience.
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Calendars are in the list but events are not showing up in the calendar view
Calendars are in the list but events are not showing up in the calendar view
5 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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Invite people to calendar event
Please add back the option to invite\add people to calendar events.
16 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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calendar invites
In the new BETA of outlook.com calendar there is no way to invite others to a calendar event. If that is not resolved I will be forces to leave outlook.com entirely. I love Outlook.com but this is THE calendaring system for all of us, and without being able to share and invite it will not work
41 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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calendar event description
I was unable to add event description. Is it possible now? Only title, place, time, repetition, reminder is available. Option to add/edit event description is must-have. Otherwise it looks and works fine.
31 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for adding event description to 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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I share a calendar across the family for each member, and I want to be able to put calendar entries on their calendar
I would like to create calendar entries on my kids calendars (like I can now with the old interface). I'm using Edge on Win 10, and I do not see a 'calendar' selection. This is required for me to use this calendar … please add this back!
4 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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Calendar seems useless without the ability to invite others. All I have with the new version is a glorified wall calendar without pictures
Seems like a step backwards if you cannot invite anyone.
14 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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Unable to edit calendar events effectively in Beta version, pop up is too small.
Beta version looks good, except its hard to edit calendar items, as the pop up is very small in the Beta version.
The original version gave you a big pop up that you can read the entire contents and edit as needed. The Beta version is too small to edit effectively.8 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for editing events in a larger window in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience.
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