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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?

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[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There's a keyboard shortcut to send an email.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And that keyboard shortcut is exactly the same as the keystroke to insert a line in other applications

I have a rule set up to delay outgoing email 2 minutes almost entirely because of how often I hit ctrl+enter

(Add format to a line, it formats that line and the paragraph above it; "no outlook, I want a paragraph break between those, not two linefeeds" <ctrl+enter>)

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The new version written in JavaScript and spite. Everything about that.

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?

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

It's made by raccoons that live in a PCP factory dumpster. Also why the fuck do we need 4 different teams applications

Fuck Microsoft.

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

OneDrive crashes not only the original computer I had the problem on, but the replacement computer that I got (upgrade) as well. Then when I moved to a different office, it crashed another computer and then created the same problem for the one other person using the computer.

And by crashing, I mean the second it tries to do anything everything freezes, and the only way to get out of it is a hard reset.

So OneDrive.

[–] Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

I resend a lot of email. Reply all, update subject, screenshots etc. A few seconds after you reply all, above the to field you start getting status updates. You're not replying to the latest email. This will be sent to xx people etc. It shifts all the fields down, so my click into the subject to remove the RE: is now editing the cc field instead.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Are we talking about Outlook or "New Outlook"? Everyone that I've heard that switch to new Outlook has had nothing but pain that you can't "do the thing" you used to any more. Like "Meeting with All".

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

When you try to change views in a shared calendar, and it automatically switches to your personal calendar in the other view, causing you to go back to the first view, change calendars, then do the exact same thing again.

Every. Damn. Time.

Also cached exchange mode is a disaster...

[–] fedev@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My inbox view gets messed up every now and then and I have to keep resetting it.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

An old bug that they're determined not to fix. It's been happening to me at 3 different jobs now

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jesus. Basically everything about it. We use the web client at work, so might be a different set of annoyances.
deep breath I use slashes in 70% of the e-mails I write as the punctuation mark that they are - I have never and will never want it to start randomly guessing what files I want to attach to the e-mail when I type a slash.
I actually didn't hate that if you typed something like "23rd" it would make the rd super-script - until the day it started doing it so incredibly wrong that it would super-script the '3' and the 'r' and change the 'd' to a 'th' so it read "2^3r^th".
Several times per day it will show a folder name in bold with a number in parenthesis telling me I have new messages in that folder, but when I click on the folder it highlights nothing as new messages, so I have to just remember what the last message I actually read was. Search sucks. Rarely can I open attachments. I told a coworker just yesterday that if they want to keep something secret from me, their best bet is to put the secret in an e-mail attachment and e-mail it to me.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

I think the bad superscript is not a thing on the desktop app. I wonder if that's AI learning autocomplete

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly what doesn't annoy me? The list is pretty short. I've never used Outlook before my work, I'm used to Gmail. Outlook feels remarkably shit for something so commonly used. Microsoft ia horrible at UI design imo. I can never find what I need and things that are supposed to be simple are somehow very convoluted.

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[–] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

On the new Outlook, clicking on emails that pop up opens them... in the background. Insane design choice

For some reason, opening attachments is a lot more painful that it needs to be in open emails.

Maybe there is an option to remove "open file in browser" but if there is I haven't found it. Awful, awful design

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

That sounds like how everyone always guesses wrong which way to plug in USB, not a specific problem with outlook.

Labels should be the default but UI designers on all platforms only care about appearance. Googling says you can change the taskbar to not combine instances and show labels. That way you always know what you are clicking.

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I can see the windows with the inbox labeled in the taskbar preview, it just consistently brings up the wrong one when I click it.

Believe me, I've tried for years to fix this.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Everything, fuck microsoft.

[–] WeAreAllOne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

That I cannot export mailboxes to other clients. Screw .ost !

That it will automatically try to disable com add-ons even if you tell it not to or create a group policy that tells it not to disable certain add-ons. Still on some machines they will disable. Disabling and re-enabling them from the list often won't fix the issue as you have to first re-enable them in another menu. If neither work then you have to completely re-install the add-on.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

honestly their office suite is something I feel they did overall pretty well with. Granted plenty of changes and little things that aggravate me but hard to say as Im not actively using it. Outlook and excel in particular are standouts.

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

Its popularity.

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Outlook like many of Microsoft's products could really stand to be just eol'd and then replaced by a better product

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They did that. New Outlook.

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[–] kubica@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

Trying to find the search button, depending on what you have open it is hidden completely.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

At work we constantly have issues requiring the need to recreate the Ms outlook profile. We made a script for deleting and adding back the ocp or whatever it's called

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