New outlook not showing total email count in each folder on windows application

Feb 5, 2025 - this problem has been driving me crazy forever not seeing folder count in my MS Outlook for Mac Inbox. I searched this thread today to only find there are so many others with the same frustration and then I was doing some of my own testing/checking I actually FOUND the FOLDER COUNT! Maybe someone else in this long thread also found it and kudos!

SOLUTION FOUND: Just sharing it fresh to the top of the thread. RIGHT CLICK the Inbox or any other folder - a dialogue box opens and the top item shown is grayed out . . . there it is . . . it shows folder count "41 Items" then you see the list of items you can click on below that are NOT grayed out..Open in New Window, New Folder, Add to Favorites, etc.

GIVE IT A TRY! I am super excited as it helps in managing your inbox! Hope this helps someone today!

Colleen

Not the point. I just like to open my outlook inbox and simply see the overall number of emails in my inbox. A large number indicates that I’m losing control of my communications. So when the number gets high, I know I have work to do on my inbox…replying, deleting, filing, actioning, etc.

Yes. A status bar at the bottom of the window that indicates the total number of items and the number of unread item in the inbox is incredibly valuable and helps me track progress/productivity/workload.

I have reverted back to the old version of outlook.

Please add this feature back.

Two issues: 1) there is no status bar in the "New" Outlook. 2) And there is no properties dropdown when right-clicking on folders.

The inability to see total items in the current folder is a deal-killer, makes it impossible to perform regular clean-up and maintenance as I've been doing for decades. Please tell me this will be fixed!

I second that, it's really a shame to see such a usefull feature for inbox management go down the drain.

It is part of Microsoft's culture. Back over 20 years ago David Pogue in the New York Times mentioned that people would report bugs in Microsoft Word that never got fixed. Worse, I remember calling into customer service to report a bug. They wanted to charge me a hefty fee (about $50) to do so because this was not a regular part of their service so it required an extra service charge.

Even around 2010 we have the same problem: David Pogue again: https://archive.nytimes.com/pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/office-for-mac-isnt-an-improvement/

There are bugs aplenty, too. If you use the Send as Attachment command from Word, for example, you wind up with an outgoing message in Outlook — but without your signature in place...

Outlook’s AutoComplete is broken, too...

In Word, as before, there’s a dialog box where you can change the keystrokes for features you use a lot. In Word 2011, however, the new assignments sometimes don’t “take.” The feature is simply broken.

Microsoft says that it’s aware of all the bugs I’ve listed here, and intends to fix them early next year. (Most of the missing mail commands, however, will remain missing.)

O.K., what? You *knew* about these bugs, but you’re selling this software anyway?

Sure, other companies do that. But that doesn’t make it any less sleazy when Microsoft does it.