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Lee Drake
Sep 19, 2018Steel Contributor
The removal of the Office OneNote 2016 desktop version download links is unacceptable.
We were promised in all of the news about the demise of Office OneNote 2016 desktop edition that "We could continue using the desktop edition as long as we wished" of One Note 2016. This is highly n...
Lee Drake
Steel Contributor
NanetteDV - Thanks yes, that's the way I have mine configured. My msg above is from 2019 and they've somewhat improved it since. It's still a mess compared to the original though, and there is still missing functionality dating back till then. Now they're doing the same thing to Outlook. Sad.
NanetteDV
Feb 06, 2024Copper Contributor
I just figured I'd add it in for others who find this post, because it was driving me nuts. about 7 months ago I could still get OneNote 2016 installed, but now (with a new laptop) I could only get the updated OneNote for Desktop app.
I have noticed a bunch of things with the new Outlook and it has crashed on me a few times when adding categories to events, and there are other niggly bits like not being able to open .msg files (surely this is a core function??) and also not being able to copy/paste an event in your calendar. The same goes for the new modern Power Automate interface where you can't add html formatting to emails! Let's hope it improves sooner rather than later - Microsoft loves a "good enough" rollout and fix with iterations after...
I have noticed a bunch of things with the new Outlook and it has crashed on me a few times when adding categories to events, and there are other niggly bits like not being able to open .msg files (surely this is a core function??) and also not being able to copy/paste an event in your calendar. The same goes for the new modern Power Automate interface where you can't add html formatting to emails! Let's hope it improves sooner rather than later - Microsoft loves a "good enough" rollout and fix with iterations after...
- Lee DrakeApr 15, 2024Steel ContributorMore importantly, the new outlook is a web app. It won't function offline - no access to mail. Additionally no way to import/export any mail files, so without the desktop app no way to backup mail to a local machine on retirement, etc.