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.

I've gone back to classic Outlook at this point - can't wait any longer, and not being able to option-drag to create a meeting copy is just not an option. Let us know when the new UI can match up to the classic one, Microsoft.

Apparently Microsoft's engineers can't figure out how to add back basic functionality or simply DO NOT CARE to fix things for Mac users. My solution was to go back to "old" Outlook so that I can duplicate events and easily import ics files. I prefer functionality over esthetics, which apparently is all there is to recommend New Outlook.

...Any update on this would be much appreciated.

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

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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.

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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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2021-05-05T17:32:33+00:00

I've gone back to classic Outlook at this point - can't wait any longer, and not being able to option-drag to create a meeting copy is just not an option.

Let us know when the new UI can match up to the classic one, Microsoft.
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2021-05-04T16:18:28+00:00

Apparently Microsoft's engineers can't figure out how to add back basic functionality or simply DO NOT CARE to fix things for Mac users. My solution was to go back to "old" Outlook so that I can duplicate events and easily import ics files. I prefer functionality over esthetics, which apparently is all there is to recommend New Outlook.
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2021-05-04T16:05:49+00:00

Any update on this please?
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2021-04-29T11:16:41+00:00

...Any update on this would be much appreciated.
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