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Recall email sent using the Sharepoint share feature
Accidentally shared a site via Sharepoint to a group. In Outlook on the web, in my Sent folder, the message appears as if I had sent it from Outlook. I used the 'Recall message' button on the ribbon and selected 'Only recall this message'. I don't knoew what is expected normal response after clicking OK in this window, but it simply closed the window and nothing else changed. It makes wonder if an email sent this way cannot be recalled?
New OUtlook Slow Sync gmail
I use New Outlook on W11 to access my gmail. There are two problems which I suspect are related: Slow to sync to incoming mail. 1 hour or more even though the incoming message(s) visible on gmail.com Having generated an outbound message using "New Email", on clicking "Send" the message goes to the Drafts folder and waits, sometimes over an hour, before sending it. Please help using every day language. Thank you PhilDrag and drop email-to-task (To Do) from favourites bug
It's been driving me crazy but I finally seemed to figure out why I could no longer drag emails into the ToDo pane to create tasks. Firstly, it seems that you can only drag emails to create tasks for business, or non-Microsoft accounts, I'm not sure which, or both. Secondly, you need to select an email from within the actual account in the left pane, NOT favourites. See this image: https://imgur.com/a/ZdyAvYb This bug may have been introduced in the last few months, as I don't recall encountering any issues until somewhat recently. Anyway, I hope this helps prevent someone from ripping out their hair like I was.How to stop conversation threads from automatically expanding in the inbox
I have my inbox grouped by conversation. It appears as one email header with an arrow on the left indicating that it is a conversation which is great. The problem is that when I select the conversation, automatically my inbox expands showing every email in the conversation. I dont want it to expand automatically. I want it to remain condensed until I tell it to expand. Is there anyway to do this? It is driving me crazy
Hotmail account blocked and can't recover
Hello, I have been trying to regain access to an old account that has my Hotmail email as the address on file. But none of the support emails were delivered to my Outlook email which is where I have always received my @hotmail.com emails after the change way back when. It seems that my account has been blocked due to too many failed login attempts, but I haven't directly logged into that account in years. I tried to do the account recovery but it says that information I provided was not sufficient enough. I mean I am putting contacts and email subjects directly from my Outlook sent folder from back when emails where being sent from my Hotmail email. I tried calling Microsoft but once the automated system realized that I was looking for sign-in support, my number seems to be flagged and whenever I call back it gives me a canned response and hangs up. I need to talk to a real person that will help me recover my Hotmail account so that I can then recover the other account I can't access.
DO NOT UPGRADE TO "NEW OUTLOOK"
I would recommend not upgrading to "new outlook" - it is the worst implementation I've seen in over 30 years. It is not an "upgrade" to outlook it is a brand new application that really sucks. rules you can't change, almost no integration to contacts, contact application sucks. I can't go back because going to "new outlook" changed my mailbox. I am currently trying to move off outlook to another application - any recommendations. This implementation of Outlook is unusable. DO NOT GO TO "NEW OUTLOOK" until microsoft fixes about 100 problems.
Unclear language regarding meeting frequency in Outlook
Problem: The text shown to email recipients describing when a series of meetings that repeats on a particular day of a particular week each month is unclear as to how often there will actually be a meeting. Explanation: The language is unclear if a meeting organiser schedules a meeting that repeats on a particular day of a particular week each month (e.g. on the second Friday of each month, on the third Wednesday of each month) rather than on a numbered day of the month (e.g. on the 8th day of each month) Here is a screenshot to illustrate: The content circled in blue at the bottom of the screenshot shows what the meeting organiser is actually scheduling. The content circled in red at the top of the screenshot shows what is displayed in Outlook to the recipients and to the meeting organizer. For this example; the timing information that will be displayed to event invitees says: Occurs every second Friday from 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM effective Fri 09/01/26 until Sat 09/01/27 I argue that this could be reasonably interpreted to mean either: There will a meeting fortnightly (i.e. one week a meeting, and then the next no meeting) There will be one meeting each month - and it will take place on the second Friday of the month I understand the desire to be concise in the descriptions shown to users however I argue it should not come at the expense of clarity of important information. Suggested Fix: Adjusting the date/time statement provided to recipients and shown on the new event screen to read in the following format: Occurs on the second Friday of every month from 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM effective Fri 09/01/26 until Sat 09/01/27 is just slightly longer but removes the ambiguity about meeting frequency. Thank you for your consideration!
Classic Outlook Keeps "Not Responding" and freezing
Hi there, I tried to scour for something similar, but I couldn't find anything and/or it didn't work - so here I am - hopefully someone can help. Okay the facts - I use Classic Outlook (CO moving forward) and I run 5 email address in it - 3 are a domain for my company that I run and 2 are POP emails brought in from AOL. I run Windows 11. This is happening to 3 or my 5 work stations, all three are the ones on Windows 11. This started slow a few weeks ago, thought it was just low memory so went through and cleaned up old emails. I am not seeing these issues when using the 2 pop emails - just my company domain ones. Can open CO, taking some extended time but it is getting there. As soon as I try to send an email, reply to an email, change a signature within a new email - it either takes 5-10 minutes to load if we do not click again and just let it sit and think. The second I try and click something or try and scroll while waiting - it goes into 'Not Responding'. Some times it will load after 1 minute and sometimes it just get stuck. I have updated my CO, I tried the advanced 'online repair' through my system, I have tried disabling all my add-ons, I tried deleting my email account from CO and re-loading/logging in, I have checked my graphics card (something on google said to check it for updates), I have ran command prompts to check for internal Windows errors and I have come up short on everything.
