Obligitory “I have to use it for my job,” so let’s commiserate.
It’s the worst program in all of the Office Suite. MS wrote the goddamn OS and email client, but for some reason if I have two instances open for two different inboxes and try to pull one up on the taskbar, the wrong instance will pull up every single time without fail.
My runner-up complaint is how when I use the search bar, sometimes it’ll forget what I’m doing and when I hit enter it’ll open some email instead of executing the search.
Every update makes it worse, so what drives you crazy?
We are asked to use Projects to manage our work, and we then mapped the project’s structure into a folder structure using sharepoint. The thing is, this structure leads to very long file paths, and Windows won’t let us open the files using the file explorer because the file path is too long, and so we need to search stuff through sharepoint, download as zip files, and end up breaking the intended organization. The projects page helps create the illusion of organization for the higher-ups but in reality it is a hindrance. We don’t have admin access to the computer and so we can’t change this file path limit setting. This is just the first that came to mind of an endless list of complaints I have.
Yeah SharePoint links are cooked. I copied a url from SharePoint and it crashed my remote session with someone and pretty sure its BSoD my device more than once. Upping the file path limit locally won’t help.
You can go to a SharePoint folder on the site and hit “sync” which will then add it to your file explorer if you have OneDrivs. Makes for easier navigation and collaboration. Fucked if I know how end users were meant to divine that.
Oh goodness, the Windows filepath limit has caused so many headaches at work. Even if you enable longer filepaths, not all applications pay attention to that, since at some point, Microsoft promised a specific filepath length and some applications hard-coded it in, so Microsoft is kind of locked in to supporting that being the default max filepath length. Not sure if any Office applications fall into that camp, but given that most filepath length errors I see are from Windows itself silently failing to finish extracting a zip archive, it wouldn’t surprise me!
It’s another Electron app now. At least “New Outlook” is.
This. You have to load a whole ******* web renderer context so that developers can more easily add “features” like emojis and animated gifs to a ******* mail client. Same thing with Teams.
It’s all so woefully wasteful, slow, painful. But it’s OK, we now have loads of RAM, fast SSDs, multi-core multi-thread ultra-fast CPUs anyway, and gifs really are a must-have in modern corporate communication.
Just get out of my lawn.
Good news! Emojis are also available in GMail now!
https://mspoweruser.com/google-workspace-adds-emoji-api-expands-gemini-features-in-latest-update/
Imagine a world where simple old Thunderbird became the corporate standard. No bullshit, just you, the keyboard, and the blank slate of plain text email.
I want to set an OOO. I don’t want the OOO to go to people who are emailing a group or list.
Also, I want it to go to people outside my org that I email back, not random spammers and salespeople.
For some reason, the only option is to use people in my addressbook which doesn’t auto populate and I never use.
I am willing to forget pretty much any fault on Outlook when I compare it with the absolute dogshit product that is New Outlook.
Click on a Toast and it opens the email… in the background, never in the foreground.
Have anything other than Email selected (calendar, for example) and it doesn’t display the New Email notification on the tile, so if you didn’t see the toast and have anything other then Outlook open in the foreground, you don’t know you’ve got new email until you physically go back to Outlook and click on the Email button.
Want to send a spreadsheet as an email attachment from within Excel? The option is there, but it doesn’t work any more (and the same for any other native “send via email” option in your OS out applications).
Want to send a document as an attachment? You have to open a new email, then drag the document into the correct half of the email, because if you have it too far to the left, Outlook will upload it into OneDrive and put a link to it in the email.
I could go on, but fuck me, it’s absolutely disgusting how much this breaks any previous workflow you may have had for doing email quickly and efficiently…
I have to run it through a browser because I’m on Linux and it’s constantly logging me out Even when I say don’t do it don’t ask again just keep me logged in. Nope fuck you log out, and sometimes it gets stuck in a loop where I log in and it logs me out immediately over and over until I clear my cache and reset my browser it’s insane
The most useless UI element ever invented:
That one happens for me, too. I like to imagine a non-techie trying to use that web version and every time it starts doing the login-logout loop, they have to contact tech support.
For me it happens about once a week. Surely, there’s organizations where this keeps tech support busy all day…
That sounds like a use-case for a separate browser profile. That way when you reset everything you’re not affecting every other site you visit.
Important emails from contacts I had for years flagged as spam.
Bullshit left click for spell check now… constantly trying to think for me and distracting me with endless USELESS popups, no spell check in the subject like. It’s awful
You are getting pop-ups in Outlook? What version of Outlook are you using if you don’t mind me asking.
Not Pop up ads, constantly trying to suggest what I am about to type.
And we’re using whatever version of part of Microsoft 365
New Outlook pretends to support RSS, but there’s no way to trigger an update. You read your feeds on Microsoft’s schedule or not at all.
Ctrl+f is not find
Came here to say this. Ctrl+f is find in every other Microsoft product, it’s their own damn standard.
Did you know that Microsoft changes keyboard shortcuts based on locale? In Italian they set search to Shift+F5.
Shit drives me crazy.
Like 2 years ago the search was really good. I’m always using referencing or updating all documents. So being able to find them quickly is a huge help in my day to day.
The search bar used to work almost instantly and find anything matching the title or even content in any document I wanted. Now even typing in the exact title doesn’t pull up the document I’m looking for half the type.
Not being able to unpin email chains unless you change it to non-threaded replies, select all, unpin, then go back to threaded replies like a civilized lifeform. Otherwise it just repins the chain when it refreshes.
Our office also uses teams phones which still don’t have a way to show missed calls. We literally cannot call people back if we don’t get to the med room phone in time.
Oh wow, you may have just solved the issue I’ve been having with email chains I pin coming back! I’ll have to give that unpin trick a try–thank you! That workaround shouldn’t be necessary, of course, but I’m happy to have another option to try to unpin some of the long-past-relevant conversations that have been pinned in my inbox for over a year 😅
And thank you as well for the info about Teams phones. Some folks at work floated the idea of switching to Teams phones instead of our current VOIP setup, but if they don’t show missed calls, I’m glad that idea never came to fruition!
The calendar view can’t be configured to fit a full 24 hour day and you have to scroll.
Every once in a while it just decides it’s going to completely change the layout, and there’s no simple way to get it back to how it was.
I’ve been using MS products for some 40 years, and I swear it’s company policy to put every Chaotic Evil new employee immediately onto a UI/UX team. Absolutely zero consistency between products and versions.
When you have the calendar open it refreshes and blinks while it does that, like every 15 minutes. This never happened with 2016
And people pay through the nose for that crap?
Setting up calendar events with reminders that never happen. At some point, they just stopped working for me.
I tought that was me! This week I finally gave up on it, and started printing my calendar for the day. Welcome to 30 years ago I guess.
I’ve been through pages of internet forums looking for a fix. The best advice I got was “set an alarm on your phone”. I finally just gave up on outlook’s calendar.
Yeah, for work I also have the outlook app on the phone, and that’s even worse; some kind of overwatch policy prevents me from getting pop-ups reminding me which meeting I have, instead prompting me that I have a calendar event, and I should open outlook to see what it is. Then I have some additional hoops to jump through to actually view, so I gave up on that years ago. For now, a piece of paper it is.
