Looking for "all mailboxes" in new outlook interface

Anonymous
2024-01-16T19:48:15+00:00

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?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-05-27T02:26:14+00:00

    This passive agressive nonsense has to stop, there is no Microsoft community, just Microsoft doing whatever it likes and us having to suck it up.

    This new outlook will kill productivity at every level. Even small businesses have multiple addresses, PST driven archives.

    We need the option of keeping the old one and Microsoft needs to pull its head in.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-16T12:33:37+00:00

    Any updates on the "Search All Mailboxes" feature for New Outlook?

    This morning a M365 update switched me into the New Outlook client.

    Unfortunately, after an hour plus of searching in the New Outlook client and online, I found no "Search All Mailboxes" capability.

    • I've had to switch back to the 'Classic' client as "Search All Mailboxes" is a must have feature for me.

    Is there an open Feature Request with ETA for this?

    Have a great day!

    Len Parliament

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-01T17:46:24+00:00

    Literally logged in just to add a reply here because this is outrageous. Having the ability to search a mail in all of my accounts has been 40% of the reason I even am on the Microsoft ecosystem and have Office. What the duck. Stop listening to whoever is making these calls and start listening to the userbase... they're the ones making your money not investors.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-21T12:35:57+00:00

    Just adding my name to the list of frustrated users of the New Outlook.

    I have six email accounts in my Outlook, one personal, and five business related (from 3 different businesses.)

    At two or three times a day I need to search through more than one mailbox at the same time. In the old Outlook this was a one-step process. Now I have to search a mailbox, switch to another account, search that mailbox, etc.

    Perhaps time is totally unrelated to money for Microsoft programmers. But I am now spending two, three or four times as much time doing searches in the New Outlook. That takes time away from other aspects of running my businesses. Bottom line is the New Outlook is costing me money (by taking me away from other business related activities.) And as if that is not bad enough, there are advertisements at the topt of my outlook inboxes....and Microsoft tells me I can pay to make Outlook ad-free. Adding insult to injury.

    I saw a response from Microsoft saying that a combined search function is being worked on, and that will be a great thing. But I have no idea whether that will be out in a week, a month, or sometime next year.

    If Microsoft truly cared about the needs of its customers they would release something we could use NOW, perhaps a workaround, or an add-on, or a Macro, that enables the users to do a multiple search. It does us no good NOW to know you are working on something for eventual release.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-05-07T12:39:46+00:00

    That so odd how it doesn't have it. I see that the new outlook is about more streamlined but that feature is severely lacking. When are they ever gonna make it not beta mode too? It's been over a year...

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