The new Outlook for Mac
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Allow for creation of smart mailboxes in new Outlook for mac.
"New Outlook" appears to not have smart folders. I have critical uses for this.
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Create an option to duplicate calendar events
This has long been a feature of 3rd party apps like Fantastical and I don't understand why Outlook doesn't have it yet. It's such a no-brainer and so handy. Right-click an event | Duplicate.
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Re: new email window – toolbar customization & refinements
Would love to be able to customize the toolbar in the New Email window, and/or make collapsible sections as an option. Additionally, some currently available tool buttons and labeling could you some refinements. A few thoughts:
When the new email window is smaller, the toolbar is cropped from the right side.
Many of the tools that take up a lot of toolbar real estate have commonly known key commands (say copy, paste, bold, italic), and it would be nice to hide them.
Add-ins themselves are always cropped when the window is a smaller size, since they're historically placed way over…
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Access folders with the left sidebar collapsed
I like having the left sidebar collapsed as it reduces wasted screen real estate. However, I occasionally need to access other folders like Sent, Archived, etc which means I have to collapse and expand this sidebar every time to see those items. It would be great to have another method of switching folders while keeping this sidebar collapsed.
Note: this should also apply to calendars, people, notes, and tasks.
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5 votes
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Add the Sweep feature from the web app
Sweep let's you quickly set up rules and filter emails into folders. It is the only way I can deal with a large volume of emails. Please bring it to the desktop app!
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Add a "Now" line to the Agenda View
When in the Mail view, the calendar Agenda View list doesn't give any indicator of what's coming up next. If you have 20 items in the day, opening the page or clicking the Today button scrolls to the top of the day instead of showing what time it is and what's coming up next. The Day View has the indicator, but that should be carried over to the Agenda view as well as bringing that line to the top of the list.
There is a preference to hide past items, but this line should appear when showing all agenda items.
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Customize the Touch Bar
With the new Outlook for Mac starting new and waiting to be more like a native Mac application I would suggest allowing users to customize the Touch Bar options. Right now there are missing functions for the Touch Bar and the old version of Outlook for Mac did not allow for customization. It would be good to allow us to customize what functions we would like to have on the Touch Bar.
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In Inbox view, When Reading pane is set to None, let me peek into the mail on hover over, also show me a quick menu on left.
In Inbox view, When Reading pane is set to None, let me peek into the mail on hover over, also show me a quick menu on left. Essentially, today I click on email to see the content, then decide to reply or mark as read or delete or move. Instead, I would like a bigger inbox view with bigger peek area for mail and quick click less access to the menu. So, as I hover over an inbox item for a second, show me the email on right, show me the quick menu on left. I can move mouse on…
3 votesHave you tried Reading Pane on Right? This displays a preview of the mail on the right side of the Message List.
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Show Reply/Forward button and quick access to conversation view
Two useful features I believe to be missing in this build:
• On the "You replied to/forwarded this message." bar, please add back the button that allowed quick access to that sent message.
• Along the same lines, there used to be a quote bubble near the top of the reading pane that allowed quick access to the full thread of a conversation, for those of us who prefer to not use conversation mode. Would love to see that returned.3 votesThe conversation index, showing all messages in the conversation across folders, is now displayed in the message list itself
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Make new outlook experience available to non-365 users
Some of us use Office 2019 provided by our employers, but are not currently on Office 365. Would like to be able to test new features and provide feedback.. even with Fast Insider channel, the updates for the new experience are not available.
Thanks.
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With the reading pane on the right, allow additional columns in the message list
This was lacking in the original Outlook for mac, but still think it needs to be done. I like placing the reading pane on the right. With the message list, I'd like to see the option of adding additional columns to quickly sort by. This is one of the features I use so heavily that I still find myself using Windows-based Outlook on mac.
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Move the Flag icon slightly to the left.
When viewing the Flagged email list, scrolling causes the scroll bar to appear and overlap the Flag icon making it easy to inadvertently click the scroll bar (causing you to scroll half way down the list) when you meant to Flag or Unflag an email.
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2 votes
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Next free slot
It would be interesting when creating an appointment with participants to have the next common free slot as a suggestion
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Touch Bar controls in Calendar
Currently, the Touch Bar controls in Calendar allow you to switch between the Day, Work Week, Week and Month views. It would be very useful to also have a way to navigate between periods (like the arrows that are to the left of the day/week/month above the calendar) in the Touch Bar.
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Archive email instead of delete when ignoring conversation
When "ignoring conversation" it deletes the emails the next coming ones.
Ignoring doesn't mean I want to delete them, but just ignore.I think archiving is more appropriate that deleting.
Or at least have the possibility to choose in the preferences.Giving a use case:
- Someone sends an email with an information about a new release of an upstream system to a wide audience (not the best, but still a lot people do...)
- I got the info, I'm interested by the info so I want to keep it (in archive, so searchable)
- Several people will reply asking…5 votes -
Impossible to drag-to-copy between two calendars (use to work in classic)
Can't drag to copy between two calendars anymore.
Used to work in classic outlook.4 votes -
Support for email aliases
Would be great to have account support for email aliases per provider.
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Add a tool bar to the calendar view in the new Outlook for Mac UI.
On the new Calendar UI within Outlook for Mac add toolbar options (can still be simplified) but i cant seem to add a calendar category on the fly for instance within the calendar view, i need to open up each meeting - same goes for adding "show as"
6 votes
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