Using older versions of Outlook for Mac in business environments
Hello Kathie,
Your reaction is my experience too. I am also an Outlook lifer. But it seem that MS have no interest in us and it seems to me they won't be fixing Legacy Outlook as they are pushing their free New Outlook which does not come close. What a shame. I have been in touch with MS support many times and insisted that they escalate the problem which they assure me they have. I even Twitter'ed the MS CEO with the link to this thread but to no avail. I might have a go at Support again sometime as I have a ticket number.
In the meantime I have found Mozilla's Thunderbolt email client to be the closest thing to Legacy Outlook after trying quite a few other clients. It requires some customising to get it just the way you want it but having done that it works pretty well. And it is endlessly customisable as well as having many add-ons available. I particularly like the "putting emails into folders" functionality, which I do all the time. It did however require an add-on called Quick Folder Move.
Still hoping for a solution but fast losing hope as we approach a year since this started.