After researching how to get it back to how it looked, which was much more in my taste, much easier to navigate, had what I needed and nothing more, - I now see I can't get it back after it was updated. I think i'm gonna completely disgard of this email, I liked how it looked on PC, it was dark, fast, easy to find things, now it's very complicated with a lot of options and tools i have no use for, and it's bright, with small buttons everywhere. The browser version is alright, so that is what I will be using. I will uninstall outlook completely as a program from my PC, as I do not wish to have this update, and it's more trouble and much more confusing and irritating, than helping and good. It will complicate work and how easy it was before, but that's just how it is, when updates are being forced upon people. It's a typical thing of big coperations to do this, so it dosen't surprise me, that some people who think they know it all, make something new, to shove down the users throat, instead of being able to choose ourselves.

I can barely use it, I have the CIO reporting to me in my company and I am asking for alternatives until MS fixes this train crash. I cannot find any of the features I was using: We are an international company and to find the language settings to change the proof reading language is a sub menu of the editor settings menu. We work in four languages, that inconvenience alone renders outlook near unusable I can't see how to force send/receive I cannot find how to force a clean up of the account cache or logout to test whether a recent password reset worked The sorting function of the inbox, by far my most used feature, is now in a sub menu under filters; I use that tens of times per day and it is much more inconvenient now The save draft option is so far right that I have to push "more" to find it, are you serious? Encouraging people to not save draft and risk losing their work, nice! In return I feel like I am force fed features of little use such as: add-ins, viva insights and loop components in every screen The more I use the new version the less I like it.

It is HORRIBLE! You can't add shared folders to Favorites. Context menus are practically non-existent. It's just a wrapper for the website and it SUCKS!

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE. Just like the horrible spacing on this forum. Look at how this forum webpage is laid out. Look at all of the blank space around the page. Seriously, who makes this stuff? Windows users, if you lost the ability to switch back, go here - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Preferences Change the new look value to "1" then restart the new Outlook and the button to switch to the old look will return. After you hit the button close Outlook if it doesn't close on it's own. Then, make sure you're starting the old Outlook, the program icon looks different. In my case the old Outlook program icon doesn't show on the taskbar, but I don't care. The new Outlook on Windows is terrible. I like it for Mac, but it's impossible to use on Windows.

WHY?????? I can't even explain how horrible of a program this has become, which users is Microsoft targeting? is not looking neither behaving like a professional tool anymore. Is so bad i I couldn't even reply certain email , why?, who's deciding which email i can or cannot reply to? Piece of junk, i switch back to the older more mature and reliable version.

The new update on OUTLOOK mail, is terrible

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After researching how to get it back to how it looked, which was much more in my taste, much easier to navigate, had what I needed and nothing more, - I now see I can't get it back after it was updated.
I think i'm gonna completely disgard of this email, I liked how it looked on PC, it was dark, fast, easy to find things, now it's very complicated with a lot of options and tools i have no use for, and it's bright, with small buttons everywhere.

The browser version is alright, so that is what I will be using. I will uninstall outlook completely as a program from my PC, as I do not wish to have this update, and it's more trouble and much more confusing and irritating, than helping and good. It will complicate work and how easy it was before, but that's just how it is, when updates are being forced upon people.

It's a typical thing of big coperations to do this, so it dosen't surprise me, that some people who think they know it all, make something new, to shove down the users throat, instead of being able to choose ourselves.

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2023-06-07T18:35:14+00:00
I can barely use it, I have the CIO reporting to me in my company and I am asking for alternatives until MS fixes this train crash. I cannot find any of the features I was using:
- We are an international company and to find the language settings to change the proof reading language is a sub menu of the editor settings menu. We work in four languages, that inconvenience alone renders outlook near unusable
- I can't see how to force send/receive
- I cannot find how to force a clean up of the account cache or logout to test whether a recent password reset worked
- The sorting function of the inbox, by far my most used feature, is now in a sub menu under filters; I use that tens of times per day and it is much more inconvenient now
- The save draft option is so far right that I have to push "more" to find it, are you serious? Encouraging people to not save draft and risk losing their work, nice!
- In return I feel like I am force fed features of little use such as: add-ins, viva insights and loop components in every screen
The more I use the new version the less I like it.
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2023-06-05T18:49:05+00:00

It is HORRIBLE! You can't add shared folders to Favorites. Context menus are practically non-existent. It's just a wrapper for the website and it SUCKS!
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2023-06-05T18:31:07+00:00

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE. Just like the horrible spacing on this forum. Look at how this forum webpage is laid out. Look at all of the blank space around the page. Seriously, who makes this stuff?

Windows users, if you lost the ability to switch back, go here -

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Preferences

Change the new look value to "1" then restart the new Outlook and the button to switch to the old look will return. After you hit the button close Outlook if it doesn't close on it's own. Then, make sure you're starting the old Outlook, the program icon looks different. In my case the old Outlook program icon doesn't show on the taskbar, but I don't care.

The new Outlook on Windows is terrible. I like it for Mac, but it's impossible to use on Windows.
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2023-06-05T15:02:30+00:00

WHY?????? I can't even explain how horrible of a program this has become, which users is Microsoft targeting? is not looking neither behaving like a professional tool anymore. Is so bad i I couldn't even reply certain email , why?, who's deciding which email i can or cannot reply to? Piece of junk, i switch back to the older more mature and reliable version.
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