MicrosoftHello World, I am here to complain. About the "New Outlook".
margieclinton , if you don't mind, I'm curious how the Dev Team decided on features for this version. Did you poll power users and remove the top 150 useful features by popularity? It looks like you removed nearly every useful little tweak that has been built into the app in the last few decades. My Outbox is gone, and so now is my 1-minute Outbox send delay that has saved my **bleep** from more embarrassing situations than I can count.
You know what, why should I enumerate this list when someone on Reddit has been compiling it for me? Here it is, all the features (noticed by your paying users, so far) which have been removed in the "New Outlook". After you fire your Outlook Product Manager for being so supremely out of touch with users, please reconsider adding some of these features back... Maybe talk to people who use your product and have many other options when it comes to this crap, I dunno. I've been dealing with this Microsoft upgrade BS since Windows NT 4.0, and this is the biggest blunder since Windows Me. Oh yeah, the removed features (credit to Pombolina: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/13lo7u6/list_of_new_features_and_missing_features_in_the/ 😞
Features removed (in no particular order):
Customize ribbon
Ribbon cannot be hidden
Preview 1, 2, or 3 lines of message body in message list
Choose columns to show in message list
Separation of categories from subject in message list
Shared categories cannot have color
Cannot "view source" of HTML emails
Status bar
Item count, server connectivity status, zoom level, etc.
Rearranging folders in folder tree
Cannot set folder to show item count
Outlook forms
Notes view
Folders view
Folder pane cannot be "minimized" to show folders sideways
"Share to Teams"
"Send to OneNote"
Find/replace within message when composing email (Ctrl+F)
Outlook Today (although may be replaced with "My Day" or “Board 1¤7)
PST file support
Translate
Search ribbon
Advanced Search (Ctrl+Shift+F)
Search Folders
"Unread Mail" in favorites is an example
Cannot right-click and “Add to favorites 1¤7 for shared mailboxes
Reply with IM (opens Teams chat with sender)
Copy email attachments
Sort/Filter options greatly reduced
Rules are far less capable
Can see, but not access/use better rules from old Outlook
Rule to move message to another mailbox
OneDrive link does not honor policies and be hidden
“To Do 1¤7 opens in browser instead of within Outlook
No contacts from shared mailboxes
No print options in Mail view. Must open each message and print one at a time
No print options in Contacts view
"Clean up" mailbox
Send/Receive/Sync Now
Creating email signatures via script
Recall email
Resend email
Work offline
Quick Access Toolbar and Previous/Next email buttons when viewing a message
Public folders must be manually added to favorites to see them
Accessibility is basically gone
Using Outlook without mouse/touch is not possible
To Do bar (although may be replaced with "My Day" or “Board 1¤7)
View Settings is extremely gutted. (old Outlook is insanely powerful here)
Rich text format for composing email
Voting options (replaced with browser-based MS forms)
Does not use Word as email message editor, so these features are gone when composing email:
Styles, smart tables, thesaurus, find & replace, paragraph formatting, advanced character formatting, page color, effects, themes, smart art, word art, OLE objects, etc.
Set bullet type/style in bulleted list
Quick Parts
Right-click
Does not use Word as description editor for calendar event entries. So, above features are gone here too
Email composer does not support:
Message expiration
Hanging indents or tab customization
Reply-to alternate email address
Digitally signing or encrypting emails
Auto pick time for creating meetings
High importance & low importance tags for calendar events
Dictation
No way to open address book within "Create calendar event"
Looking at Settings/Options reveals dozens (hundreds?) of missing options when compared to old Outlook
Alt-R and Alt-W hotkeys
Not having Word as email editor:
Cannot put border or shading around inserted images
Can only select from a subset of Windows fonts
Does not migrate quick steps from old Outlook even though they are stored on the server.
Cannot open .EML or .ICS files
COM and VTSO add-ins
MAPI is gone. No more "Print PDF to email", or other apps using email workflow
Can't "share as attachment" from the other Office apps.
Mail merge using Word and Excel may not work
Message Templates
Unable to sort by name, then type in the name to go to that grouping.
Custom follow-up reminders for email
"Next 7 Days" Calendar view
Tasks view
Can't delete attachments from emails and still keep the email
Can't save an attachment where you want, it goes to downloads
Cannot setup multiple languages for spell checking within a message.
Read Aloud (text-to-speech) is only available within Immersive Reader instead of right-clicking
Right-click on message -> Find Related
Auto correct shortcuts are gone
Sort messages by category
Does not work with on-prem Exchange Server
Lots of missing Enterprise controls, such as using Group Policy to prevent users from adding their personal accounts.
Cannot drag-n-drop emails into other Office apps
Quick Steps cannot create new email
Cannot import Holidays into Calendar (.hol files)
Cannot minimize to system tray
Can't view headers of attached emails
Gray theme missing, only white and dark available
Cannot change icons of quick steps
