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New Notifications pane in Outlook helps you stay on task.

Microsoft

Aug 25, 2024

(Originally published on July 6, 2022 by Corina Arama) Hi, Office Insiders! I'm Corina Arama, a Product Manager on the Outlook team. I’m here to introduce a new Notifications pane in Outlook fo...

Updated Aug 25, 2024

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AlanKirk

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Feb 19, 2025

With notifications being used more and more by people as a quick reply to emails you have sent is there an option to have this pane open by default when you open outlook? I'm finding I'm missing notifications as I'm not really looking for the little red bell up the top and would prefer not to turn on windows notifications and have it as a default viewable pane when I open outlook.