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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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That is not a solution! It is just extra work!
I want emails to always open in an external window. Just add the setting!
I just hate your recent changes! Outlook has lost ALL appeal that remained.
I'm actively persuading our administration to leave Office already. All your changes are ****.
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How do I get to Message Surface. When I click on Customize Actions, I only get Quick Actions.
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 🙏
So, I finally decided to "upgrade" to the New Outlook and this issue hit big time. I love that I can pin my messages to the top but... not being able to open messages in a new window without double-clicking super fast or selecting the checkbox next to the message and hit shift-enter is breaking my workflow.
I also found that I can't open up email messages I have saved out to a folder on my hard drive (to keep related messages with projects that I work on). The New Outlook client says I can't do that.
Now I have to go back to the previous version and lose the ability of pinning messages because of this issue. I hope they fix this issue someday.