New Outlook for Windows: a guide for Executive Assistants and Delegates – part 3

Are there any plans to fix the issue in the new outlook where Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels are not inherited from office attachments?  This worked great in Outlook classic but the new outlook requires people to manually set the label on the email in addition to the attachment.

the new Outlook is nothing but a mess. The web look distracts from be productive, it is just the opposite. Functionality is limited and it is just not as handy as the look and feel from the "old" Outlook - the flat web design won't be and can't be as comfortable as a classic desktop app.

"New" is not always better than "old".

Please leave classic Outlook as it is: it worked for more than 20 years and there are reasons for.

Outlook was ever a driver for migrations to Exchange, not because of Exchange itself, but also from a user perspective.

I find that when my mailbox is filtered by category, the category collapse/minimise arrow is not always visible.   I've worked out if I click into a folder and back into mailbox they sometimes reappear.   will there be a fix for this please?  Thanks

Thank you, caithart.  Changing the view to my day allowed me to see both at the same time.  The items under today, and tomorrow were in due date order.  However, the items in next 5 days and later were not in due date order.  Is there a way to fix that?  I find the task/to-do list more functional in classic because I can change the order to group the tasks by the executive I support (I assigned a category to each executive so they are always color coded across the calendar and email).  That way I can see what I have due or a response I need by due date for each executive.  If they pass my desk and ask if they have anything outstanding, I can quickly look at my task list and see what's pending for them by due date order.  Will that be coming to new outlook?  Thank you!

How do you drop and drag items into your calendar.   In old outlook you could click on item, drag it and it would drop into your calendar.   I haven't been able to make the switch due to this issue.  I have too many itinerary's I add daily to calendar. 

TrudyD1140 To view your to do list next to your inbox, you can open the My Day pane from this icon in the upper right, or under View > Layout > My Day. There is a Calendar and a To Do option in that pane so you can view either next to your inbox. Tasks show up on the agenda view on their due dates, or you can view the entire list in the To Do tab.

How do I view my inbox and my to-do list at the same time?  In old outlook I am constantly looking at my task list off to the right when I'm viewing my in-box.  When a task's deadline hits, I need to see it in red on the side of my screen so I know to take follow up action.

caithart Sorry for the confusion. I see the Sort by > Category option...

... but I was querying why it is "hidden" at the bottom of Filter, which isn't where people look for it intuitively. Or is it somewhere else as well? 

Improvements are coming to the sort and filter experience - and you can indeed sort by categories! If you don't see that option, let me know Karen_Roem 

Good call to highlight the “Has calendar invites filter”, Ashimam; the EAs/PAs I meet love that. But why is “Sort” at the bottom of that Filter list? There are rumours that you cannot, for example, sort by categories, but it’s just not as in your face as in Classic Outlook. Will that change?