Sharing from Word to Outlook still opens the old Outlook and not the new one so the emails are not sending.

Hi! We have spent 5 hours connecting the new Outlook version to Word and we are so disappointed that this simple option is not available yet.

I also want an answer on that. For information, I set Outlook new in the default App for the MAILTO protocol.

I am still wondering why Microsoft have so much pain to offer a real User Experience. It is insane!

Is there a solution available for this yet? This workaround doesn't address the question, and I would also like a relevant answer.

I would also love an answer to this question. As the OP said, your solution is a work around, not an actual solution. To make matters worse, when I open an email and attempt to share the file, I can't attach it to the email if the file is open. That is very annoying. I went from 2 clicks to be able to share an office file I'm working on to having to save the file, close the file, open new outlook, open an email, attach the file, send the email, then reopen the file to continue working on it. Kind of ridiculous for what seems like a necessary feature that shouldn't have gone away with an "upgrade" to Outlook.

Any update on the answer to this question? I have the same problem.

When I am in Microsoft word and try to share a document via email, the old outlook client opens, rather than the "New Outlook".

I then hit send and because I don't have the old outlook open, the email just sits in the outbox and never actually sends.

Is there a way to make the "New" outlook the default email client for microsoft word email sharing?

Thanks,

Paul