How do I enable copy and paste in the new outlook? I am not able to directly copy any documents from Explorer and then go to the email that I am working on to paste onto the emial.

David, I know you can only reply with the "party line", but I agree that this is a major setback. This forces me to move my activity to another email provider. My Outlook account will now become just a spam collector. I understand this may be responding to some security vulnerability, but the cut-and-paste feature is so fundamental to email that it handicaps outlook for a large percentage of users. If there's a vulnerability to cut-and-paste I would think Microsoft would be finding a way to patch the issue rather than take the easy way out by removing the feature altogether.

I agree. The new Microsoft is the worst yet! Programmers need to remember that accounting people, and business people, simply want to the cut and past the product they have developed and send it via Outlook!

Outlook IS a Microsoft product, isn't it? So MAKE IT COMPATIBLE! I know one thing--programmers are very smart--and stubborn--and for that they'll lose also smart business people who have a need for a "compatible" product--and a certainly more "compatible" company to work with!

Disappointed again,

Pat Frank

Have you noticed that all the solutions people have come up with here involve some form of "keyboard gymnastics" to overcome a ridiculous flaw that Microsoft should be ashamed of??? I have actually come up with (in my opinion) is the best solution....I've established a gmail account....and will transition to that account in my own time...taking pleasure with each contact I move over to the new account. Sometime in the future, I'll treat myself to a cake and ice cream as I delete the obsolete husk of my Outlook account into cyber oblivion!

I'm sorry, but this new outlook makes life less efficient, not more. Why would it take feature away?

This is truly outrageous....I have only two questions:

1. What moron at Microsoft thought that making the basic "copy/paste" function a new convoluted mess was a good idea?
2. Has that person been fired yet?

It's stuff like this that fuels people's anger/mistrust of "big tech". I guess when your stock price is over $450 a share you stop caring....