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I like to open unread emails in a new window vs the email window. It sometimes works by double clicking but not very often. Is there a trick I'm missing?
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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I got you ,totally understand what you mean when you have to go out of your way it's like derailing..breaks the workflow completely it's totally disfunctional totally get it 🙏
If it's not an answer it already answers because I have the reading pane disabled and it suddenly started opening in a new window which i thought I liked it and it's even better but then of course as with everything when someone finally adapts to something someone takes it away because apparently anywhere nobody likes to see anyone happy or pleased.. it's what we've become to... anyway
So no worries i got it and it either opens in a new window or it doesn't and apparently no one knows why not even at microsoft apparently but it seems it depends on how fast i click it because I tested that.
Maybe I should work at microsoft!
So.. my dad has an issue and no one at microsoft also could help him,... but i'll try anyway maybe someone NOT at Microsoft will be bale to answer this:
He suddenly got Microsoft updated to the new one and all was synced except for his contact list???? Why? How come the calendar and all went through and synced as he had it and the contacts list somehow didn't???
Not sure it's a sync problem though... because otherwise everything would have synced altogether with no exceptions. I didn't have an issue.. suddenly updated to teh new one when i didnt even ask for it probably was the microsoft insider program, but i don't mind and since i didn't even take the time to create a contacts list - as I think it should be automatic when we write an email the contact /recipient should automatically get there with names since it goes to the right person then it's because it links and associates to that person... why should I bother to even HAVE to bother having to be the one creating it because it doesn't add the name and email to the contacts list?
Thanks for taking one for the team, John. Still can't believe what a mess this is!
Thanks. This must be a recent addition due to the massive response [outcry] on the issue. I'll take your word for it - still far too much missing functionality to switch over to the new Outlook.
Hey,
So... it's a problem with us people, humans, not the software itself.. ok that clears it out enough already.
Thanks a lot for updating this matter :)
Happy Holidays =)
take care