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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-02-06T00:25:08+00:00

    This works OK and is definitely better than nothing - although still not as useful as a consolidated inbox (in my opinion).

    However, make sure you highlight each inbox (or any other folder) you want to add to your Favorites by right clicking on the inbox/folder BEFORE you click on the folder's "..." menu. If you don't select the new inbox/folder first, i.e., if you just go straight to the "..." menu of the new folder you want to add, the previous folder (whatever it was) remains highlighted; and selecting "add to favorites" on the new folder "..." menu will add a folder you didn't expect or will add the previous inbox/folder again. Go figure.

    I discovered this the hard way :-)

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-07T09:00:55+00:00

    Sadly that doesn't work with New Outlook. There's no developer tab to be turned on in the ribbon so you can't make a fancy unified inbox for yourself.

    I'm still somewhat shocked that Outlook doesn't have a unified inbox. On my iPhone/iPad/Mac it's there by default in the Apple mail apps. Before I used Outlook I used to have a unified inbox (back in 2012 and I can't even remember which tool I was using then!). They are so behind the curve in making something that it's somewhat amazing.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-07T11:03:04+00:00

    I use the same Outlook version, the kontext-menue of the inbox does not have an "add to favorites" option on shared mailboxes (which are all located in the "sharde with me subfolder" in the new office!).

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-14T01:56:20+00:00

    Did any one come up with a solution to this insane problem. If NOT, can anyone recommend a another software that has this MUST feature.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-21T09:12:24+00:00

    It seems odd that they have managed this within the mobile app version of Outlook, and have recognised it as a requirement, but have not mirrored this in the New Desktop version.

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