My outlook is stuck on the new version. How to go back to classic version?

Anonymous
2024-05-01T01:35:22+00:00

My email does not have the toggle option in the top right corner to get the classic outlook back. There is no longer the old outlook in the store either. I have also tried the steps in registry editor and that didn’t work out either.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-15T16:56:53+00:00

    Thanks for the suggestion but I found a work-around. I can open my old outlook and get to all of my e-mails as long as I am NOT CONNECTED to the internet. It is tedious to turn them all into PDF files but it was worth it to me. I also could get to my contacts and download them as a CVS file which is useful and I could open my calendar and pull all the important dates out of it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-14T18:58:44+00:00

    You may be able to use OpenOffice (freeware) to get your emails back through your MSG file you saved. I hope so!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-14T18:53:23+00:00

    PLEASE SEE "HAL" he solved my issue !!!!

    HAL is on this thread...

    Look Hal up ...

    I tried all those so-called other fixes, but Nothing Worked.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-14T18:05:25+00:00

    I was having this same issue. I searched outlook from the windows tab and after it loaded and opened up I found the three dots at top right of page scrolled down to settings then sync and or reset settings

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-14T16:41:34+00:00

    Thank you Hall but I don't have Microsoft 365. I own my own copy of Microsoft Office 2019.

    Sadly, nothing happens when I try to open old outlook, not even a whirly gig anymore and immediately after opening NEW OUTLOOK yesterday none of the right click options I had available to me through old outlook worked anymore.

    There is no old outlook app available to me.

    Any emails I saved as .msg files can no longer be opened. I can't even imagine what a nightmare this is for all the companies who have saved and filed emails in this way. I have to tell you that every time I see Windows has an update, I dread what is going to happen to my system.

    Windows 11 is a hot mess and NEW OUTLOOK is a hotter wet mess. It's time for someone to admit that.

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