Option-Drag to copy an event in the new Outlook for Mac?

Anonymous
2020-10-21T23:10:52+00:00

I like the look of the new Outlook for Mac. But the functionality of the Calendar seems to have lost a lot of things compared to the old Outlook.

  • I can't Option-drag a meeting to create a copy on another day or a new time (it's a standard way of doing things on a Mac and worked in the old Outlook)
  • I can't drag an event to another calendar in the section at left to move this event to this calendar.
  • When creating a new event, there's no option to change the reminder time for the event. I have to create the event, save it, open it again, go the event options, change the reminder and I still have to click on two buttons to save the change. Way too much trouble.

Am I missing a magic option somewhere?

I'm working from home on a Mac, connected to an enterprise version of O365 at my university.

Outlook | MacOS | Legacy Outlook for Mac | For home

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Anonymous
2020-10-22T16:06:04+00:00

Hi Christian,

Thank you for posting your issue on Microsoft Community. There are several features that aren't yet available in the new Outlook experience and some known issues such as Mail and events can't be moved or copied between accounts. However, our product team is investigating this issue in the new Outlook for Mac. You may switch back by turning off the New Outlook switch to avoid this issue.

For detailed information see under Features not yet available in the new Outlook for Mac/Known issues

Your time and understanding will be highly appreciated.

Best regards,

Shyamal

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-03-17T15:43:09+00:00

    Hi Guys

    Not sure if you've managed to solve the issue. I too today needed to duplicate an event in Microsoft on my Mac and like so many of you was frustrated when i couldn't do this.

    I've noticed for other things such as viewing shared calendars there's better functionality in the outlook web version so thought i would give that ago for the event duplication and was pleased to see that if you right hand click your event there is the option to duplicate, not quite as easy as control and drag but better than recreating events.

    Hope that helps some people

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-25T19:20:38+00:00

    A year and four months later and this simple, standard feature is still not available in the "new" Outlook? I just cannot fathom how your development team thought it was OK to release a product without this simple feature parity with your older version...

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-24T20:43:59+00:00

    I am still looking for this update in 2022. I no longer have the option to go back to the old version so now I really need the option-drag feature to be fixed. (oops just read about how to get to Legacy version) still...please fix this.

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