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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?

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[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jesus. Basically everything about it. We use the web client at work, so might be a different set of annoyances.
deep breath I use slashes in 70% of the e-mails I write as the punctuation mark that they are - I have never and will never want it to start randomly guessing what files I want to attach to the e-mail when I type a slash.
I actually didn't hate that if you typed something like "23rd" it would make the rd super-script - until the day it started doing it so incredibly wrong that it would super-script the '3' and the 'r' and change the 'd' to a 'th' so it read "2^3r^th".
Several times per day it will show a folder name in bold with a number in parenthesis telling me I have new messages in that folder, but when I click on the folder it highlights nothing as new messages, so I have to just remember what the last message I actually read was. Search sucks. Rarely can I open attachments. I told a coworker just yesterday that if they want to keep something secret from me, their best bet is to put the secret in an e-mail attachment and e-mail it to me.

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[–] ximtor@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

You can't AND/OR combine filters. If i want to move stuff into "Gitlab trash" automatically, I need to use different rules instead of one with multiple applying conditions

[–] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

On the new Outlook, clicking on emails that pop up opens them... in the background. Insane design choice

For some reason, opening attachments is a lot more painful that it needs to be in open emails.

Maybe there is an option to remove "open file in browser" but if there is I haven't found it. Awful, awful design

[–] fedev@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My inbox view gets messed up every now and then and I have to keep resetting it.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

An old bug that they're determined not to fix. It's been happening to me at 3 different jobs now

[–] Outwit1294@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

Sometimes tasks go to the trash randomly. It doesn’t happen consistently enough to see what causes it.

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

Its popularity.

That it will automatically try to disable com add-ons even if you tell it not to or create a group policy that tells it not to disable certain add-ons. Still on some machines they will disable. Disabling and re-enabling them from the list often won't fix the issue as you have to first re-enable them in another menu. If neither work then you have to completely re-install the add-on.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Everything, fuck microsoft.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

honestly their office suite is something I feel they did overall pretty well with. Granted plenty of changes and little things that aggravate me but hard to say as Im not actively using it. Outlook and excel in particular are standouts.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Trying to find the search button, depending on what you have open it is hidden completely.

[–] WeAreAllOne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

That I cannot export mailboxes to other clients. Screw .ost !

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The minimize button closes the application.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Having to use Outlook was a significant contributor to me leaving my last job.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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!

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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?

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

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

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