How to remove old Outlook after switching to New Outlook

Anonymous
2023-08-31T13:11:06+00:00

After changing to the New Outlook, my office apps still try to use old outlook application when I try to share a document (File - Share - Email). It opens old outlook but wont send. It just sets in Outbox. I assume some clean up is necessary to remove remanence of old Outlook?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-12-23T23:02:30+00:00

    This doesn't work for the Outlook that comes with Office 2021 Digital purchase. I'm using the NEW Outlook and would like to uninstall the Old Outlook Office component to recoup the disk space. Apparently, Microsoft did not take this option into account when it started messing around with everybody's systems! It arbitrarily decided to leave its garbage laying around on my HDD taking up space.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-10T18:26:13+00:00

    There is no "Change" option with Office 365.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-12-08T16:49:41+00:00

    For my case, there is a "Change" option if we look at "Office 365" in the control panel (instead of "Settings")

    Nevertheless, the "Change" just triggers a "repair" of the app, which is not what we want here.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-28T22:09:02+00:00

    Please help us in isolating the issue by providing the following information:

    1. What windows version are running?
    2. Have you tried the steps below to remove the old Outlook application:
      • Close all Office applications, including Outlook.
      • Open the Control Panel and select "Programs and Features" or "Add or Remove Programs" depending on your version of Windows.
      • Find Microsoft Office in the list of installed programs and select "Change".
      • In the Office installer window, select "Add or Remove Features" and click "Continue".
      • Expand the "Outlook" section and uncheck the box next to the old version of Outlook.
      • Click "Continue" and follow the prompts to complete the uninstallation process.

    I'm also having the same issue but those steps do not work: in my case, I have the "Microsoft 365 Apps For Enterprise" suite, and when I click on the "Change" button within Windows' Control Panel, I'm given only two options, "Quick Repair" and "Online Repair".

    Just as the rest of replies in the thread, all I want is to uninstall the "old" Outlook software, since I already switched to the version shown as "Outlook (New)" and I want to get some free disk space back.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-10-18T10:57:31+00:00

    Hi,
    I have the same issue but I do not have a separate "old outlook" app since it is part of the Microsoft Office app. And I cannot afford uninstalling Office as I would lose Excel, ppt and Word.

    Thank you for you help on that matter.

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