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I have started using the new Outlook desktop interface. In the older version I was able to enter this search term: Folder:inbox and select all mailboxes and it would display all my inboxes from different email accounts. I cannot find the equivalent in the new interface. Does it exist? How can I look at the inbox of all my accounts without having to do them one at a time?
Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Kind of insane that we don't have this on the New Outlook client. Even more insane is that it's available and a default setting on Outlook for Mac, which uses the New Outlook interface. What else are we supposed to do here except tell users to go back to the regular outlook when they have multiple mailboxes?
I too miss the search all mailboxes!!!
What a hassle to not have it
I strongly recommend that this feature be re-added before the "update" goes fully live. The ability to search across multiple email accounts is the main reason for using Outlook desktop, it is why we don't use the online version of Outlook.
In our company, we have multiple teams that may touch an order (customer service, purchasing, tracking, etc.). It is very important to have the ability to search all accounts for on order and see everything / everyone who may have had been involved so that we have a full picture of any issues.
For many of our computers, we specifically purchased the desktop licenses simply so they could use the Outlook desktop app to search multiple email accounts at once. Remove this feature, and we will no longer have a reason to pay for the desktop license for many of our team members. If this function did not exists, we would probably purchase a third party software that had this function, to manage our emails.
The Outlook Team is tracking Unified Inbox as a feature request for future consideration. It's a commonly requested feature but the team has other priority work in front of it currently. The new and upcoming features are posted here, https://aka.ms/newOutlookComingSoon. If you want to give direct feedback, click Help, Feedback, Make a suggestion.
THE NEW INBOX UNIFIED IS EXTREMELY ANNOYING AS WE USED IT CONSTANTLY AND NOW MAKES OUTLOOK VERY UNPLEASEANT TO USE WHEN YOU HAVE MULTIPLE EMAIL ADDRESSES, PLEASE FIX.
It is super odd, I agree. But it shows that the design team doesn't care about functionality of their product.