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.

Anonymous
2024-03-23T22:33:30+00:00

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. Before with the Old Outlook I was able to to do this easily but the New Outlook requires me to go to the "paper clip" Icon above then search thru the Explorer to find the file then the specific documents(which couple be hundred documents); this process takes sometime 5 miniuets to find the exact document to copy and paste. I need to do it the Old Outlook ways or "Classic" format so that I can do just the cut and paste as mentioned earlier of this email. Pleas advise ASAP thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-07-15T19:29:25+00:00

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

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-07-12T22:32:58+00:00

    I had the same problem but thankfully found a fix I'm ok with. Changing my default email format from plain text to HTML did the trick.

    There goes 20+ years of using plain text as my default format. Now I'm forced to send fatter email over the pipe for no good reason.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-12T22:23:54+00:00

    As a 78 year old woman I don't understand what you are saying.

    I hit "send again" and found no paper clip. Did something else and found paper clip but 3 choices. 2 the same and none what I wanted. Could not go anywhere else in that screen. Got out of everything and guess I'm done for. Maybe they should wait til the Boomers die off.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-11T15:41:19+00:00

    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....

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-07-11T15:00:36+00:00

    GOOD IDEA, I'LL JUST USE MY G-MAIL FROM GOOGLE, IT SEEMS LIKE MICROSOFT WANTS EVERYBODY TO SWITCH TO GOOGLE ANYWAY.

    MICROSOFT COULDN'T CREATE A MOBILE PHONE OPERATING SYSTEM WITH APPS SO SOMEBODY MUST HAVE MADE A ANDROID PHONE FOR MICROSOFT & MICROSOFT JUST SLAPPED THEIR NAME ON THE PHONE.

    I AM SLOWLY SWITCHING TO GOOGLE, MICROSOFT FORCED ME TO GET A PIXEL 7 PRO PHONE.

    AND THE NEXT TIME I NEED A LAPTOP, I'LL GET A GOOGLE LAPTOP, MY WIFE ALREADY HAS ONE.

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