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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Calender
Your new calendar does not allow users to manually change repetition dates. Now you can only choose ever day, every week, every month, or every year. I have items that occurring every two weeks I'd like to add to my calendar (or somethings every three weeks) but you offer no way to do that.
My suggestion is if you're trying to improve something... you add better functions, not take functions away from the old version. Seems like you're going backwards
4 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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Bring Back Precise Times for Calendar Entries
Until recently, I was able to set exact start and end times for calendar entries. This was the case even in the beta. Now, the beta seems to be forcing everything to 15 minute slots.
My tee time on Wednesday is 4:52, not 4:45!!
3 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for more flexible options for editing event times in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience.
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Not enough features to fast edit complete entry in calendar
need more buttons to fast open a complete DETAIL edit form for entries in calendar. Outlook Beta is now more uncomfortable in this point as before.
4 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for an event edit form in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience.
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https://outlook.live.com/owa/?path=/calendar/action/compose&subject=Sushi%20Training&location=Convention%20Center&startdt=2016-02-29T19%3A00
https://outlook.live.com/owa/?path=/calendar/action/compose&subject=... DOESN"T WORK WITH BETA. How or when will this functionality be working again?
1 voteThank 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
- COLORS more options and match previous/current colors
- how the heck to you add content? it only shows time and location???!!!?? wtf?
1 voteThank 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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Fix calender confusions
I tried to use outlook as a "mailsoftware (fake-all)", had to give up on that idea because of to many problems, one of the problems was with the calendar. I had several calendars. The default calendar name i think showed in three places, all with the same name and very difficult to find out witch one is witch one, and not able to change names. So one i think was for outlook app, one for fake@outlook and one for fake-all. I would have wanted to use fake@ as the only on and the default calendar on fake-all. It should be…
1 voteThank 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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Filtered selection list for reasons why declining invite
I am the EA to two SVP's at the company that I work at. It would be very helpful to provide a reason on the calendar invites as to why I am declining on their behalf, e.g. Conflict, Out-of-office, Vacation. It would be helpful to see the reason on the tracking status of the calendar invites, for those who are the meeting organizer.
1 voteThank you for your feedback! The deployment for being able to add a response to meeting invites in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience.
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1 vote
Thank you for your feedback! The deployment for categories 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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No E-mail option in the Calendar.
Don't like that there's no E-Mail Option in the Calendar, at least not that I can find. All in all, this calendar seems harder to work with than the old one. Too skimpy, for lack of a better term.
1 voteThank you for your feedback! The deployment for being able to email attendees 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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Bring Calendar appointment scheduling tools into Beta
Allow the scheduling settings from the old Calendar to appear in the Beta, e.g. 'every 3 weeks' or 'every 2nd Thursday' are not possible in Beta;
Beta options are 'every day/week/month/year' and that's it. I have to switch back to the old system to do anything else e.g. a fortnightly appointment.
4 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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gridlines
Display darker lines for the calendar gridlines in Outlook calendar.
1 voteThank you for your feedback! The deployment for a revamped calendar experience in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience.
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calender entries can't be sent to an other person
If I want to make an appointment with someone and I would like to send him or her a placeholder in the calender for this, that's nod possible in this version.
1 voteThank 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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The new calendar is not ready for RTW. Where is the color-coding for meetings? How do you easily add participant emails for invitations?
The new calendar is not ready for RTW. Where is the color-coding for meetings? How do you easily add participant emails for invitations?
3 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for categories and adding attendees 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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Invite participants in Calender
- Calender entries not possible to forward it to participants
- Missing details from the old version
5 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for notes and 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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New feedback from Outlook.com (React)
Calendar--what happened to inviting other people? Under the beta, I don't see any way to invite other individuals to the appointment.
21 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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details
-It's not possible to enter details (pictures, informations, ...)in a calendar entry because this field is missing.
-It would be nice to move and/or copy a calendar entry to another calendar
-Charms are missing.In summary the old version is better.
6 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for notes, enabling events to be moved between calendars, and icons in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience.
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New feedback from Outlook.com (React)
When creating a new event in the beta calendar I can't invite other people
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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New feedback from Outlook.com (React)
In Outlook.com Beta you cannot access calendar item details. Switch back from beta and you can see the 'details' view for calendar items.
Also - the ability to change the icon for appointments is great!
8 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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Readd more advanced calendar event options in bigger window
I miss the option to edit or create calendar events with more options in a bigger window, like a reminder per E-Mail. At least I couldn't find the option in the Beta.
11 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for a larger window for editing events, including a description, in the Outlook.com beta is now complete. If you refresh, you should be able to see the experience. In the meantime, we are working on enabling reminder emails.
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show as
The "show as" function is missing. It is extremely helpful to mark your calendar item as: free, busy, away, tentative or working elsewhere.
3 votesThank you for your feedback! The deployment for enabling Show as 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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