How to change download destination in "New Outlook" (May 2023)

The New Outlook is pretty weird.

The search functionality doesn't work as robustly either.

Can't download as a Save as - or it rams everything together as a zip file.

Yep pretty rubbish. I've reverting back.

I completely agree. Why if you are monitoring the issue do we have to also then post another report.

For everyone else ... maybe try this for now. I know you aren't going to like this as it still is more steps that should be necessary but if it helps, give it a try ...

If it is a digital file (jpg - png - etc.) .. choose preview - then choose "open in a separate window". Once that is open right click on the image and it allows a save as option.

If you are wondering the view in separate window is that weird little box with an arrow pointing out of it at the top right corner of the preview window.

Same process with a PDF ... preview and open in a separate window. BUT it has the "save as" option showing but when you click it nothing happens.

I haven't been able to test it on other file formats yet.

Agree with other users here that MS should NOT have released the new product without this key feature.

Overall, I think there's quite a bit to like about the new Outlook, not least of which is that it's generally much easier on the eyes. However, this glaring feature omission is a deal-breaker for many, including me.

Ah yes. Microsoft. "Work smarter, not harder."

I guess they forgot about that in the same way as Google forgot about "Don't be evil."

Agree. The new Outlook has some awesome features like "send later" and "snooze" -- I switched over just for those two features, as I had previously used Boomerang for this but it costs $$. But, without the option to save attachments to specific locations on my computer, it's a nonstarter. I receive a few dozen attachments a day that I need to save in different project files, and to just have them all go to a Downloads folder (and then have to cut/paste to reorganize) or to some random OneDrive location, again unfiled, is ridiculous.

While we're at it, the view on the new Outlook definitely needs work.

• The text sizing is different in like 3 different places. That is annoying and hard to read.
• The panels cannot be resized, even though there is a resize slider. It doesn't work.
• When composing a new message on the side panel, not popped out, it doesn't show you the "to" unless you click every.single.time to drop down the top panel to show who you are writing to.
• The whole thing looks like Outlook online. If we wanted outlook online, we'd use it.

Keep the old view/ version and tweak it to add/ improve features, like send later and snooze. Agree as it is, the New Outlook is no good.