For New Outlook, I can't drag and drop attachment.

Anonymous
2023-05-04T17:13:35+00:00

I like the new look for new outlook, but the problem I am having is that you cannot use drag and drop feature. I don't want to download all the content because I deal with heavy amount of invoices. I hope this is great feedback for Microsoft and get raised attention and get quickly implemented. Hope to get a quick response and help. Thanks for the support!

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-13T19:42:21+00:00

    I'm commenting again a year later. It would be amazing if Microsoft fixed this. It's been 2 years since this was posted, and 190 people have asked for this to be fixed. We would all see amazing gains in productivity if we could drag email attachments to other products. Specifically, I need to drag email attachments to Sharepoint and the Planner on Office 365 in my browser. Please fix this. Thank you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-13T17:53:46+00:00

    What in the world are the programmers doing???????????? Get the drag option and recent files dropdown back. Its ridiculous you do an update and its ten time worse!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-25T15:12:20+00:00

    I found a solution in one instance.

    The end user had two instances of Outlook installed. The default mail app was one version of Outlook, and the one she was trying to drag the attachment out of was another. I changed he default mail app to her preferred Outlook; the one she was dragging the attachment out of. Then she reproduced her process and she was able to drag the attachment as expected.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-20T22:02:03+00:00

    ditto .

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-20T21:55:19+00:00

    I used the classic outlook and clicked "Display Settings" on the bottom bar and choose "Optimize for best appearance" and the drag and drop function works again.

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