Significant changes to the New Outlook Calendar Event User Interface
In October 2025, the New Outlook Calendar Event was redesigned to incorporate Copilot, leading to a complete user interface makeover. Many icons were rearranged. This blog post includes a screenshot, icon placement, and descriptions. New Outlook Scheduling Gets a Makeover - Copilot Chat Joins #traccreations4e-p25 10/29/2025
Copying "Contact" Lists In Outlook 365
I HATE setting up a new computer!!! With that in mind, I'm struggling to establish contacts/email address as I'd had on my old computer's Outlook 365. Both new and old computer (no longer available) are/were using the latest 365 Office software. What I am trying to replicate is the ability to begin typing a person email address in the TO area, and having suggestions appear. NOTE: I believe that Outlook somehow records addresses used, and these may be part of what drives Outlook to make "suggestions". Though obliviously not all used email addresses appear as a "contact", I'd love to have this data available for use in "suggestions"....but on to my initial issue... I found some "contacts" files which, despite my low tech abilities, I managed to import into my new computer's Outlook (see attached photo). However, I now have three (3) "contact" lists as shown, with only the second and third list containing any entries.....and those entries, while having some similarities, are different. Ideally, I'd like to have the contents of the second and third list combined, and be available within the first list. BTW, when I create a new email, I get no suggestions presented from either of the two lists which contain entries.....I get nothing! MANY thanks in advance!!! Michael
Outlook broke after Office 365 update to 16.0.19328.20158 – cannot open emails Windows Server 2016
Hello everyone, posting to report that after the latest automatic update to Microsoft Office 365 version 16.0.19328.20158, we are experiencing a critical issue on multiple company machines running Windows Server 2016: The Outlook desktop application launches normally, but when trying to open any email, the following error appears: “There was a problem opening this item... The text formatting command is not available... Reinstall Microsoft Outlook.” Launching Outlook in safe mode (Outlook /safe) does not help. Creating the FORMS2 folder (suggested workaround) does not fix it. Attempting a downgrade via OfficeC2RClient.exe fails with error 30183-27 (400). Quick/online repair from Control Panel also has no effect. In our environment, this issue appeared simultaneously on many workstations and servers, right after the Office update today. Temporary solution: We are instructing users to access their mail via Outlook Web App (OWA), which is not affected by this bug. We would like to know: If others have experienced this bug with this build, including on Windows Server 2016 If any working workaround exists, or an official fix timeframe from Microsoft Thanks to anyone who can share their experience or updates!
Migrating to Office 365
I have been using the desktop version of Outlook longer than many of the fine forum members here have been alive. After decades, I am considering moving my email to the cloud. The primary reason is that I find myself evenly split in time spent on email with my notebook and desktop PCs and I tire of using Remote Desktop to access the singular location of my PST file. I also answer email on my phone a fair bit, and those emails never make it back to the nest. For these reasons, I think I should try moving my email to the cloud, where all of my devices will be pinging the same source. That's what my head tells me, anyway, but I really have no idea what I'm talking about. What is involved in moving a traditional PST-based desktop email system to Office 365? Why would I want to do this and why might I not? And should I conclude that this is worth a try, what is the recognized best practice for getting my rather large PST file up in place for O365?
Support for auto-filing sent emails
I am looking for a solution to this scenario in the New Outlook: I send tens of emails per day The sent emails are stored in the Sent Items folder I need to manually move each of them into the sub-folders in my Archive folder - e.g. one for support cases Is there any way to automate the step (3) - i.e. to automatically file the sent emails into the folders they belong to? The Classic Outlook had "When replying to a message that is not in the Inbox, save the reply in the same folder" which is not present in the New Outlook. Maybe the New Outlook should have something even more powerful? In addition to this feature, a button suggesting into which folder each message should be filed? Finally, the Outlook Rules are very powerful but they do not apply to the sent emails. Maybe time to generalize these?Outlook for Mac inserts signatures at the very end of an email chain
Hi community, This seems to be a new issue caused by an Outlook for Mac update in recent months. When reply to an email, the default signature is inserted to the very end of an email chain instead of the end of the reply one is about to draft (in other words, above the attribution "On <data>, <name> wrote ..."). I can currently work around this issue by enabling "when replying or forwarding, use the format of the original message" (under Settings -> Email -> Composing). This seems to be a bug.Problemen met outlook, missende functies oa Categorieën, opvolgen en sjablonen.
Hallo, ik zit met het volgende, vandaag in totaal 7 uur met microsoft ondersteuning gechat en hulp op afstand gehad voor mijn probleem met outlook. De "gewone klantenservice" kwam er niet uit maar de next level technicus ook niet. Ik werd doorverwezen naar dit forum in de hoop dat mij hier de hulp kan worden geboden die ik zoek. Ik ben bezig met een opleiding tot administratief medewerker, nu moet ik voor een aantal opdrachten categorieën aan mijn mail hangen en de functie opvolgen gebruiken. Categorieën en opvolgen zit normaal in de groep labels. Echter deze staan daar niet zie printscreen categorieën is hier niet zichtbaar. Wanneer ik op opvolgen druk krijg ik het volgende te zien : Normaal staan hier altijd de opties Morgen, Volgende week, Aangepast, Herrinering etc. Ik heb dat dus ook niet. Ook moet ik gebruik maken van sjablonen, normaal ga je dan naar de groep APPS Normaal staat hier dus My templates tussen en onderin staat ook nog iets wat je dan kan aanklikken wat te maken heeft met invoeginstoepassingen. Dit mis ik dus ook. Bij de optie snelle stappen heb ik ook geen optie markeren als afgehandeld (klaar) en als ik op een mail klik met de rechtermuis knop kan ik ook geen categorie kiezen/aanklikken en heb ik ook geen opties voor opvolgen. Ik maak gebruik van Windows 11 en heb een microsoft 365 family abbonement. Deze gebruik ik nog op een andere laptop (die van mijn man) en mijn desktop welke ik gebruik voor mijn fotografiestudio. Alle outlooks hebben het zelfde probleem zoals hierboven is beschreven. Wat heeft de helpdesk tot nu toe geprobeerd, het verwijderen en opnieuw installeren van het office pakket. Een nieuw profiel aanmaken in outlook. Windows fouten opsporen en repareren. Ze hebben vast nog meer dingen gedaan binnen het register maar dat ging mijn pet te boven. Vanuit de helpdesk kreeg ik dus het advies om hier mijn probleem/vraag te posten. Ik heb geen idee hoelang dit probleem zich al voordoet aangezien ik deze functies nooit gebruikte binnen outlook maar nu ik de opleiding volg hier dus wel mee aan de slag moet. Dit kan dus een week zijn maar ook zo een jaar. Wie kan mij helpen met dit probleem??
Outlook for Mac: Unable to send message immediately
Hi, Since this morning, Outlook (Microsoft 365 version updated to the latest version) no longer allows me to send email messages immediately, but only offers the "schedule sending" option. Furthermore, it doesn't allow me to schedule the sending for today, but only for tomorrow. The version of Outlook used is the Legacy version. This problem does not occur on the "current" version. I have already tried restarting both outlook and the entire system, but the situation has not changed. The problem does not occur using the web version of Outlook.
