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 found I can do it by right-clicking the appointment > Move > Copy to Folder... > select your current calendar. This creates a copy of the appointment that I can then drag/move to the new time slot while leaving the original in place. Counter-intuitive and more involved than standard and expected Alt-drag/Copy-Paste, but this workaround actually works a treat.

So now you can't turn of the new broken Outlook. And months after introducing the new Outlook it is still essentially broken. The right click work around is cumbersome and terrible. If my work was not restricting the email to only the Outlook client I would have ditched this a long time ago.

Hi Luke, I can do the move copy to folder and get a second copy of the event, but I can't seem to find a way to drag it to a date in the following month, I can only move it around the moth / day / week that is currently being displayed. So my fix is use "right-clicking the appointment > Move > Copy to Folder... > select your current calendar" this makes a second copy of the event or appointment in the same day as the original, open the second copy and enter the date that you want the copy to go to. Why they can't give us the Command c option to copy and command v to paste I just don't know. Another way of doing it is to use the internet browser version of Outlook, you can right mouse click on an appointment / calendar event and select "Duplicate Event" then you need to change the date and save it. Pretty poor show all round really, and Apple need to work hard at making their OS accommodate MS software.

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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2023-03-16T09:25:42+00:00

I found I can do it by right-clicking the appointment > Move > Copy to Folder... > select your current calendar. This creates a copy of the appointment that I can then drag/move to the new time slot while leaving the original in place.

Counter-intuitive and more involved than standard and expected Alt-drag/Copy-Paste, but this workaround actually works a treat.
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2023-04-06T21:38:45+00:00

So now you can't turn of the new broken Outlook. And months after introducing the new Outlook it is still essentially broken. The right click work around is cumbersome and terrible. If my work was not restricting the email to only the Outlook client I would have ditched this a long time ago.
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2023-04-09T17:09:37+00:00

Hi Luke,

I can do the move copy to folder and get a second copy of the event, but I can't seem to find a way to drag it to a date in the following month, I can only move it around the moth / day / week that is currently being displayed.

So my fix is use "right-clicking the appointment > Move > Copy to Folder... > select your current calendar" this makes a second copy of the event or appointment in the same day as the original, open the second copy and enter the date that you want the copy to go to.

Why they can't give us the Command c option to copy and command v to paste I just don't know.

Another way of doing it is to use the internet browser version of Outlook, you can right mouse click on an appointment / calendar event and select "Duplicate Event" then you need to change the date and save it.

Pretty poor show all round really, and Apple need to work hard at making their OS accommodate MS software.
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Anonymous

2023-04-26T14:33:55+00:00

very unhelpful reply
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