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New Outlook App Opens Tasks in My Browser, instead of Within the App
In the New Windows app, when I click on the blue checkmark (Tasks) icon instead of opening it in the app, it opens a page in my web browser. If I wanted to use Outlook in my browser, I wouldn't be using the app. Is there a way to configure this feature?
JeffInIdaho I'm not sure if anyone has answered the concern, but in the newest release, you can toggle the to do list on at the top right of outlook. Hope it helps!
All my flag mails showing up here are not clickable it seems. So i have to look them up anyway. This solution is not as helpful as the original task module. It feels like a downgrade to me.
I also right-clicked and "open in to-do" which opens a blank browser window and when refreshing it gets stuck loading.
- Same here - the integration with the current Outlook is a lot better. I'm hoping this is just a preview issue. The OneNote integration isn't great either and also opens the web app.
- I hope so too, but I'm not holding my breath!
JeffInIdaho I wish I had seen this message thread before devoting so much time to organize my lists and tasks in the web browser because that's where it opened from Outlook side bar. The tasks app in Teams doesn't even show those tasks in "My Day" which I can see in the web browser. So frustrating and such a waste of time!
JeffInIdahosame here. Not hopeful there's an answer though maybe an overly polite MS agent will post a cut and paste response.
- HaHa. Yeah. I don't know why I posted here. I put the questions on Reddit too. I usually get better feedback there.
- Saw over on another support forum this is how it works right now in preview. It's dumb, but it's how it works currently. Another problem is when the web page does open, it's glacially slow. So far, To Do behaves differently in every version/mode of Outlook, they really need to fix this.
Why would I want two apps to do what I could do with one app previously. I really don't understand why Tasks/To Do integration with with the desktop client has been removed. Makes it unusable so I'll get a 3rd party app instead.
Interestingly, as of this morning (18 March 2024) the New Outlook on my company PC now opens the To Do list in the application.
However, on my personal PC, it still opens in the browser even though it appears to be a newer build.
Both machines run Windows 11 albeit one is Enterprise edition and the other Hom edition.JeffInIdaho Curt Kessler HelloBenTeoh SteveEd
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Just confirming what Curt Kessler said. The To Do App (Tasks) is a web app. By MS's design, it is the default app for New Outlook and Web versions' tasks.
It is also available in the classic Outlook.
I have not heard any word that a desktop version is in the makings.
- What a horrible idea. I don't want a web page when the ToDo app is already installed on my laptop. For now I have switched back to the original Outlook and will stay there until forced to move.
- I completely agree with you. I think it is ridiculous. Hopefully they address this soon. You can make Outlook open the ToDo Outlook email links in the desktop app so they should be able to fix this. It's so annoying.
- Why are there so many darned versions of the different Microsoft apps? Every time I click on a link related to an issue...even a link provided to me by whatever Microsoft app that I'm using... it leads to a version that I'm not using or is so dated that the published sequence no longer works. It would be so nice if they would focus on one single version and, instead of spitting out new versions, provided some customer service.
- Yes it's a web app, but it has an icon in the new Outlook client (and in the 'old' one). The new Outlook opens the app in a separate browser page (launching Edge if not open). The old one holds the web task app inside the Outlook client, This is dumb. All the other Outlook icons open their windows inside Outlook except To Do. And the 'old' client behaves as expected. It's the new one that has this disjointed experience.
And there is a desktop To Do app (UWP which is nice, but again, external to Outlook), but To Do launched from the new Outlook app should open inside the Outlook app. the old client does it just fine.
JeffInIdaho if you click the icon in the top blue bar, far left (calendar with a tick) it opens up a my day view inside the new outlook, to do/tasks are in there
bronteskye Sort of - it doesn't give you access to all the functionality of the ToDo application. There's no flagged emails, for instance - yes, you can filter emails to find them, but the ToDo list of them is a really convenient way of catching up with emails you've flagged for later attention.
Hopefully MS will implement this properly by the time Outlook New Look reaches full release else, as others have said, what's the point in paying for desktop Office if it's going to bounce you into web versions of applications?
- Microsoft has said that they are aware of the issue and are fixing it, but remember, the new outlook is currently in development and is not fully implemented.
tcari15, have any of the versions ever been fully implemented?
tcari15 well it's almost a year later and the "new" outlook still forces the other office apps to open in the browser app. And Micro$oft hasn't changed anything. If they try to force this horrible app there will be a huge backlash for sure!
