Obligitory “I have to use it for my job,” so let’s commiserate.
It’s the worst program in all of the Office Suite. MS wrote the goddamn OS and email client, but for some reason if I have two instances open for two different inboxes and try to pull one up on the taskbar, the wrong instance will pull up every single time without fail.
My runner-up complaint is how when I use the search bar, sometimes it’ll forget what I’m doing and when I hit enter it’ll open some email instead of executing the search.
Every update makes it worse, so what drives you crazy?
Outlook doesn’t use email addresses to route e-mail with Exchange servers. Instead it uses some internal “address” that is longer than the actual e-mail address. This becomes a problem when an e-mail account is deleted and then recreated later. And the old internal address is still in some users Outlook addressbook. Because the internal address changes when the account is recreated.
The search function is useless
Doesn’t help that when it does work, I can’t delete everything it finds at one time. I have to repeat the search multiple times. Crazy
I started using Outlook365 in browser during the pandemic, and never switched back. Not that much better, but I prefer the web app running in Firefox to the actual program.
Plus, at this point, if I even opened Outlook proper, Windows would probably freeze while trying to index all of the emails that have come and gone since the last time I opened it.
Idk why MS lets you use add-ins but then they go and disable it if it starts misbehaving according to Microsoft’s determination of it doing so and not the actual add-in causing problems. OH—and then guess what? You can’t fucking enable every add-in. For some, you can only tell Outlook to not disable it for a month and then it’s the same thing all over again. Fucking Microsoft!
EDIT:
Also, who is the bird brain that decided it was a good idea to force add-ins to be managed partially via the browser? Like if I click one of the manage Add-in buttons in the Outlook app, it works just in Outlook but the other one opens up browser.
Also also, why tf are there 2 different Outlook apps now? Why should an image have Outlook New and Outlook Classic? Why tf does the mail app even exist at this point?
OneDrive crashes not only the original computer I had the problem on, but the replacement computer that I got (upgrade) as well. Then when I moved to a different office, it crashed another computer and then created the same problem for the one other person using the computer.
And by crashing, I mean the second it tries to do anything everything freezes, and the only way to get out of it is a hard reset.
So OneDrive.
The search function doesn’t find anything.
Meeting requests tracking, oh my god. It’s a great feature but it’s got so many quirks.
Once you decline a meeting, it’s gone for good in your calendar. If you accidentally declined, you need to ask for another invite. More commonly, plans changed and now you can’t attend when you could have because you forgot all about it.
You can’t decline important meetings and still see them in your calendar, so people abuse ‘tentative’ as ‘I want to know when this meeting takes place but I won’t attend myself’
Can’t organize a meeting and then don’t attend yourself. Impossible. Neither can you transfer ownership when you’re going on holiday for example, so people are stuck with meeting requests nobody can change
Good luck getting a long series of meetings accepted by a meeting room. Every single instance must be available, that’s annoying but makes sense. You can cancel or move individual instances until the meeting room accepts it, but everyone gets spammed with invites.
After you made all manual changes and the meeting room finally accepted it, if you make any changes to the series, everything is reset and the manual adjustments starts all over
If you have to move one or two specific instances to a different room, you can’t! You can move in time or cancel an instance, but using the next available room is not possible. Both rooms will decline
Once you decline a meeting, it’s gone for good in your calendar. If you accidentally declined, you need to ask for another invite.
If you decline a meeting the original meeting will be moved to the trash. So go to trash and you can accept it again.
Yes, it’s new in the new Outlook
My inbox view gets messed up every now and then and I have to keep resetting it.
When you try to change views in a shared calendar, and it automatically switches to your personal calendar in the other view, causing you to go back to the first view, change calendars, then do the exact same thing again.
Every. Damn. Time.
Also cached exchange mode is a disaster…
When I click in the search-box in the titlebar, Outlook freezes for about 5 seconds.
You can’t cut and paste an appointment.
I tried making a template the other day. I was successful, but it’s multiple clicks whenever I want to use it. There’s no way to customize the ribbon and add a button to use my new template.
Microsoft Outlook
Ctrl+f is not find
Came here to say this. Ctrl+f is find in every other Microsoft product, it’s their own damn standard.
Did you know that Microsoft changes keyboard shortcuts based on locale? In Italian they set search to Shift+F5.
Shit drives me crazy.That makes sense. The Italian word for find doesn’t start with f
It doesn’t start with F5 either, and why shift? What’s more, it’s inconsistent, sometimes they still use ctrl+f, and every other application uses that anyway
Most of the F keys had other meanings, so shift, as all shifted f keys were open
Every other application
Don’t blame Microsoft for other applications not being localised
- Randomly removes email addresses I use every day from the auto-complete forcing me to type them literally in full for weeks until it remembers them again.
- A colleagues name starts “tom…” but it ALWAYS auto-completes with another colleague “tim…”. Every single time.
- Search sucks. Not sure if this particular complaint is just our company setup but for some reason it hides stuff older than a given date “on the server” which means you have to remember exactly where stuff is & open the folder before it displays the contents rendering search pointless. Absolutely hopeless
search sucks
The workforce where I work is diverse, so often it’s easier to find someone by their first name, but you’re not doing that in outlook’s address book when names are in “surname, given name” format
Likewise when the address list was changed to “first name surname” you could no longer find someone with just their surname
As a help desk tech, please don’t get me started.
But in the spirit of contributing to this post…focused inbox. No Microsoft, I actually wouldn’t like to see all my messages and would prefer if you could hide them from me so I miss important shit and get chewed out by my boss.
From my experience outlook flags emails as unimportant, that are quickly deleted, or deleted while being unread. So for me it’s not too far off.
At work we constantly have issues requiring the need to recreate the Ms outlook profile. We made a script for deleting and adding back the ocp or whatever it’s called
