New Outlook with multiple accounts

Anonymous
2024-02-17T14:30:22+00:00

Hi,

In the new outlook, I have 6 email accounts. They all transferred in with the transition just fine. However, there does not appear to be a way to know which email accounts have new mail in them other than clicking on each account. And to add injury to insult, when you click on an account, you get another drop down menu.

I am in windows 11 and the 365 subscription version of outlook.

I absolutely need to see at a glance which accounts have new email in them on the main account screen. When an account does have new email, I need to be able to click on that email and have the inbox open with one click and not give me another menu to click through.,

Without these features you are adding a ridiculous amount of time to what should be a two second glance to check emails.

These are not wants, they are absolute needs.

Can anyone help? Or is time to find a new app?

Any help appreciated.

Outlook | Windows | New Outlook for Windows | For home

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-28T09:06:05+00:00

    Really irritating that there's no combined inbox function. Only way I've managed to get around it in any way is by using favourites and removing the default items and adding the different account inboxes so they show in the fav's pane in top left. Remove unwanted items from fav's by using the three dot menu by each default item in fav's pane and then use the three dots opposite the 'favourites' drop down menu to add each individual inbox (only shows when cursor is hovered over the favourites text on mine though ...) Not perfect, but at least I can see all my inboxes in one place and see when a message comes into them without opening each individual account folder. Hoping the sort e abetter solution at some point as I haven't found a really decent third party app yet to replace what the old one did out of the box. Bit of basic error from MS if you ask me.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-04-12T22:04:06+00:00

    The triple bar simply closes the navigation pane and there is no house. I would rather go back to the old "Mail" app.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-04-13T09:48:42+00:00

    As everyone has already said, these instructions are nonsense. I've just bought a windows laptop because I needed to run some software and didn't want to partition my Mac. How ridiculous that such a giant corporation cannot get such a simple thing right. It's left me frustrated and convinced to avoid this OS as much as possible.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-23T14:28:06+00:00

    A serious software compagnie that name different software with the same name. And constantly change UI to confuse work flow of users. Microsoft. This is recurent.

    Can we get a good way to refer to the proper software so that we don't spent time trying fixe for a software that are entended for another?

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-19T05:35:39+00:00

    His (Amgad Abdrabbu) instructions are for Android, not Windows. Unified inbox only works on Android, iOS and Mac. It does not work on any Microsoft operating systems. Go figure. I recommend BetterBird (a version of Thunderbird) if you want a unified inbox on Windows.

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