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I am having some difficulties with some of the functions in the new version. how do i switch back to the old Outlook view.
Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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You jerks! There is no USENEWOUTLOOK in the registry. Are you living on California weed or something?
I want to use Classic Outlook. New Outlook is awful and has lost so much functionality that I cannot work with it.
I want to use ONLY Classic Outlook
So I've been following your advice - but it makes no sense.
You say "Navigate to the (new) Outlook Menu" How? Where is the outlook menu?
You say "turn the toggle off at the top right of the (new) Outlook window" - there is no toggle
You say "download" which I did - it made no difference , there is still no Classic Outlook icon to launch it
Can someone PLEASE give me some instructions that make sense
Unfortunately, Microsoft won't listen to users. They sound sympathetic but really don't care and probably have no intention of restoring some features from Classic to New Outlook no matter how many people complain. There's got to be reasons for it. Back in Oct 2023, their response to someone was:
"Please understand since the New Outlook is on preview stage, some features may not supported/feasible, our product team is still updating more features on it and move features from classic Outlook to the New Outlook, and you can submit your feedback via the in-app support Help-->feedback from your new outlook."
How difficult can it be to restore the export/import feature? I could be wrong, but I believe there may be a reason they removed this feature in New Outlook for example. Possibly to stop people moving and storing their emails elsewhere as they want to be able to force people to purchase more storage.
go back to old version of outlook
This just opens the same crappy format, with SOOOO much stuff robbing space from the actual emails (the icons for calendar, email, tasks, etc, are shoved to the side, instead of under the stack of email accounts; the ribbon, even in "classic" format is ENORMOUS.) This format SUCKS.