The new update on OUTLOOK mail, is terrible

Anonymous
2023-02-24T12:49:35+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-19T09:24:34+00:00

    The so called New Outlook is appalling.

    Change for change's sake, sadly it's the fashion now.

    As a professional I cannot work efficiently with this dumbed down version

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-18T18:30:03+00:00

    Hi

    Had a few minutes spare so I follwed you instructions and UseNewOutlook is already set to 0.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-18T17:47:46+00:00

    I'm going to try the solution from rseller tomorrow and see if that works:

    Once flipped on, the toggle is irrelevant since the "old" version still exists. Just run it. You should still be able to find its shortcut in Start (and wherever else you might have had it before), but if not you will see outlook.exe in one of these places (may vary slightly depending on edition), so if necessary make a new shortcut:

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16

    or here:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16

    The nice thing about the New Outlook is that it's not an either/or proposition (like New Teams is). You have both old and new. You can even run them concurrently.

    But if running that actually runs New Outlook for you (some have reported that's the case), then:

    run Regedit.exe and go here:

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

    And in that you will see UseNewOutlook

    Set it to 0, which means that running old Outlook actually runs it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-18T17:45:05+00:00

    I make you right.

    New outlook releases aren't released on my workplace network until thouroughly tested.

    I should have taken a leaf out of the corporate techs and waited until they released it.

    I'm a DBA but it's gonna take someone A LOT more savvy than me to sort this C*** out.

    Strange though that the MS techs responsible for this haven't tested it fully on Beta before they subjected the minions to it considering how much they're paid !!!

    Or is it ??? MS march for world dominitation seems to continue !!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-18T17:32:49+00:00

    Total truth! Would be great if someone could post explicit instructions for reverting back to the old version we like way better!

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