Hi I see that the previous thread on this topic has been locked. I hope that what I have written below is not considered abuse etc. Tried to get back to the old outlook. I used the outlook.exe to start "old" outlook. BUT the issue is that I can NO LONGER add accounts even when the account is an outlook account. GMAIL accounts also cannot be added even when I use the server settings from GMAIL. I have tried to manually add and nothing works for these accounts. Functionality that was great has now been dumbed down to a level that reduces it's functionality. Have tried all the security settings and old outlook does not like any of them. Have tried to add a weblink calendar to Outlook "old" under internet can't be done. Error message is cannot verify or add the calendar in outlook. Please verify the link is a valid calendar link. Was great functionality to add a different work related calendar. The Old outlook enabled me to save .msg and pst folders to my local directories. I do this so that I can group subjects together. So if I need to review the outlook folder, I can just load the pst file to outlook. This is no longer possible

Thanks Justin, finally I understood why I could not understand if I had a very limited version of outlook or not. The simplified ribbon tricked me into thinking all advances features where missing. I will go back to classic outlook to see if I will be happy with that version. What is the good things in new Outlook? For new outlook, do you have any info on why there should be (microsoft help pages, forum posts, youtube) a button during setup of an account to "sync directly with server", but at least for me in Sweden there is none, so you have to sync everything with Microsoft?

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I see that the previous thread on this topic has been locked. I hope that what I have written below is not considered abuse etc.

Tried to get back to the old outlook. I used the outlook.exe to start "old" outlook. BUT the issue is that I can NO LONGER add accounts even when the account is an outlook account. GMAIL accounts also cannot be added even when I use the server settings from GMAIL. I have tried to manually add and nothing works for these accounts. Functionality that was great has now been dumbed down to a level that reduces it's functionality. Have tried all the security settings and old outlook does not like any of them.
Have tried to add a weblink calendar to Outlook "old" under internet can't be done. Error message is cannot verify or add the calendar in outlook. Please verify the link is a valid calendar link. Was great functionality to add a different work related calendar.
The Old outlook enabled me to save .msg and pst folders to my local directories. I do this so that I can group subjects together. So if I need to review the outlook folder, I can just load the pst file to outlook. This is no longer possible

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2024-08-23T08:48:21+00:00

Thanks Justin, finally I understood why I could not understand if I had a very limited version of outlook or not. The simplified ribbon tricked me into thinking all advances features where missing.

I will go back to classic outlook to see if I will be happy with that version. What is the good things in new Outlook?

For new outlook, do you have any info on why there should be (microsoft help pages, forum posts, youtube) a button during setup of an account to "sync directly with server", but at least for me in Sweden there is none, so you have to sync everything with Microsoft?
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