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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Search bar
I want the search text boxes back to what they were in Outlook. I just learned today that a general search is on top of the Outlook client only. It was more convenient to have a search box in a folder created in your inbox and in the focused section as well. I work for the Judiciary and this change is not as time efficient as it was before. Plus the general search is saving my searches and there's no convenient option to clear out what I searched previously which looks junky.
11 votes -
Clear Suggested Searches History
Clear Suggested Searches history. The ability to clear this should be available, often contacts I will never ever use again, not needed and just clutter of stuff I don't need to see anymore, one off contacts, junk etc. thank you.
81 votes -
missing search bar
Please reinstate the search email bar. I know you can search using the 'search' menu, but this is FAR less intuitive, more clunky and is really not user friendly in the same way as before. I could just type a couple of letters and instantly my emails would sort by subject, or person or whatever I was looking for. Now, I have to click here, click there etc etc.
7 votes -
Let you search a email/folder
Search a email/folder in the new outlook pls.
1 vote -
Unread Message Tab With Focused Inbox Enabled
It would be a great option to have the unread tab enabled with the Focused inbox, so users can easily switch back and forth to unread messages from the inbox view. Right now, we have to disable the Focused inbox to have this function available. Thanks for your consideration.
1 vote -
suggestions of contacts in search
The suggestions of contacts in search appear emails from contacts that we do not have, they should not appear, they should be able to be deleted. Suggested emails in search are always the same and do not allow to be deleted, hopefully they will change that.
6 votes -
[Suggestion]:Create sweep rules during message search
The sweep button is missing after search results are displayed. For instance, searching "dog" brings up many emails from pet merchants. I would love to be able to set rules that delete email older than 10 days or all but the most recent email from these vendors. Instead, I have to cancel the search function, find the message, then set the rules.
1 vote -
find related messages in this conversation available for outlook web app
"Find related messages in this conversation" available for outlook web app
9 votes -
[Suggestion]:Option to remove email address from search in suggested searches
if you search an email address once it is forever in suggested searches, need option to remove it from there.
2 votes -
Never show email addresses in suggested searches.
Never show email addresses in suggested searches.
1 vote -
The new OUTLOOK.com sucks in so many ways I don't have time to list them all.
The search perimeters are too narrow, it is useless.
Since you formed this partnership with UserVoice you have messed this site up so badly it has become a nightmare.
The "auto population" drop down list for contacts shows up prior to the fist letter being entered.
WAY TOO MANY THINGS TO LIST, YOU DON'T LISTEN
IT IS NOT FIT FOR BUSINESS!3 votes -
Delete old emails of suggested searches in search tab
Give us the option to delete emails in the suggested searches in the search tab when you click on it
3 votes -
Search recoverable items removes Restore option
If recoverable items are searched and selected, there is no way to recover them because the Restore button toolbar at the top is replaced with one showing the number of selected items.
The only way to restore items is to scroll through them all manually looking for what you can find and then selecting them.
3 votes -
[Dislike]:STOP ADVERTISING EDGE EVERYWHERE!
STOP ADVERTISING EDGE EVERYWHERE!
1 vote -
OUTLOOK FEEDBACK
When I vote on here I have to type in my WHOLE email address. Your little key/downarrow does NOT WORK. I don't want your response anyway. I'll know if you fix the problem.
2 votes -
search fields are short
Search fields length keep shrinking ot the right side of the windows space and should stay the width of the inbox overall field length.
So annoying. Make something that maintain the configured custom settings please
1 vote -
No way to close settings search match list
When you start typing in the search box for settings, a match list appears and won't go away until you erase the contents of the search box. It should disappear when you click off or at least there should be an X in the right side of the search box to clear it, like virtually ALL other search boxes on the planet. It's very frustrating to have the match list covering the menu when you don't find what you want, which by the way, is most of the time. The settings search sucks. Needs a better index.
1 vote -
Back button next to adress bar doesn't work.
I can't use the 'back' button of Google Chrome when I am in my Outlook webmail. I always have to press on an inbox to be able to go back. I can't send a screenshot, but I mean the buttons next to the address bar.
0 votes -
Want to have a list to view the items which has retention tag assigned
I would like to use Outlook client or Office 365 features to see which retention tag is currently applied to items in case that I would like to change the retention tag for the item.
6 votes -
permanat homepage
how to make microsoft outlook homepage permanant?
0 votes
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