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
    2024-06-23T23:11:56+00:00

    I have to wonder if anyone at Microsoft reads this and if they have any plans to fix this????

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-06-23T21:41:43+00:00

    SWITCH TO GOOGLE MAIL OR AOL MAIL......they have not **** things up....yet

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-04T18:54:59+00:00

    Not an exact solution to copy and pasting files but maybe related.

    We recently discovered that you can no longer copy and paste images with transparency layers in it. If a user edits the image or makes a drawing change that would cause it to then include a transparency (IE editing in Snaggit Editor) the copy and paste will not work. Cropping so it no longer has a transparency layer fixes this issue.

    I suspect when it comes to text copy and pasting, it maybe due to special formatting outside what New Outlook can handle. We discovered similar issues in New Teams as well. Therefore we actually think the main issue stems from WebView2.

    Example below of transparency layers

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-06-04T16:32:11+00:00

    As Kimberly mentioned above to Paste, click the Paste icon. Do not click the dropdown just click the button. Or you can press Ctrl+V (press Ctrl key and then press the V key).

    The Outlook Team is currently adding more options and a right click menu to paste like we had in Classic Outlook.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-05-04T00:40:32+00:00

    What idiot made this change? Is it the same fool that added the "Type / to insert files and more" that people have been complaining about for months? This person now wants us all to add four new steps to copy and paste additional information that MAY OR MAY NOT BE INCLUDED in emails we send? I used to be able to copy/paste certain comments to certain email recipients with a quick c/p and I was done.

    Leave the program alone or offer an "opt out" for those of us that don't have 3 extra hours per day to fiddle with your "UPGRADES" to Outlook.

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