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.

They know very well corporate IT won't allow an exodus, and they know who butters their bread.

I also hate the new look. I can't add columns to my Inbox. I like to see the to do date right there along side the email I flagged. Can't change columns anymore to add or remove them. Well goodbye Outlook IMHO. Also, when flagging an email for a follow up you can't choose a specific date anymore. Well that's not helpful if it's in a few weeks. The ToDo bar is MUCH harder to see and separate out elements that are in the daily view. It is just MUCH harder to look at and not everything is together.

I agree: it is awful on a Mac as well. It is impossible to create a simple distribution list. WUH!? I spent a good bit of time following the directions on setting up a simple group email list, having to type in every single letter of that person's email because for some reason, Outlook didn't recognize the same people I have been emailing for many years, hit Add, only to have the stupid thing NOT add the emails. Total waste of time. I will have to add each one manually, it seems., every time I want to send them all an email, which is every single day. REALLY?!!!! Isn't that sort of, well, BASIC? I am so sick and tired of Microsoft touting how great their products are on a PC or Mac only to have them NOT work well on a Mac. What a waste of money.

I agree. I tried switching to the new Outlook 2 times as I'm in IT and will need to support it eventually but switched back to the old reliable Outlook within 10 minutes. Absolutely AWFUL! HIDEOUS!

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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2023-06-12T14:16:54+00:00

They know very well corporate IT won't allow an exodus, and they know who butters their bread.
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2023-06-12T18:22:55+00:00

I also hate the new look. I can't add columns to my Inbox. I like to see the to do date right there along side the email I flagged. Can't change columns anymore to add or remove them. Well goodbye Outlook IMHO. Also, when flagging an email for a follow up you can't choose a specific date anymore. Well that's not helpful if it's in a few weeks.

The ToDo bar is MUCH harder to see and separate out elements that are in the daily view. It is just MUCH harder to look at and not everything is together.
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2023-06-14T11:09:39+00:00

I agree: it is awful on a Mac as well. It is impossible to create a simple distribution list. WUH!? I spent a good bit of time following the directions on setting up a simple group email list, having to type in every single letter of that person's email because for some reason, Outlook didn't recognize the same people I have been emailing for many years, hit Add, only to have the stupid thing NOT add the emails. Total waste of time. I will have to add each one manually, it seems., every time I want to send them all an email, which is every single day. REALLY?!!!! Isn't that sort of, well, BASIC? I am so sick and tired of Microsoft touting how great their products are on a PC or Mac only to have them NOT work well on a Mac. What a waste of money.
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2023-06-14T19:29:42+00:00

I agree. I tried switching to the new Outlook 2 times as I'm in IT and will need to support it eventually but switched back to the old reliable Outlook within 10 minutes. Absolutely AWFUL! HIDEOUS!
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