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It's the worst program in all of the Office Suite.
I digress. The worst office suite program is Publisher.
I have never ever user it for anything, but for some fucking reason any company PC has it as a default program for .pub files, and that means that everyone that creates a new key pair and opens the pub file to copy it the gets lost and need special instructions to close that fucking thing and to open the file with notepad or something.
Fuck that program for choosing pub as their extension.
Honestly what doesn't annoy me? The list is pretty short. I've never used Outlook before my work, I'm used to Gmail. Outlook feels remarkably shit for something so commonly used. Microsoft ia horrible at UI design imo. I can never find what I need and things that are supposed to be simple are somehow very convoluted.
Exactly all this! Man, its like sitting on an uncomfortable chair but with my hands. I spend more time googling where something is or how to turn a setting off. It's awful.
Being secretly not updating because it thinks it's disconnected, so I have to notice that little icon by the inbox to know it's just not telling me about meetings being scheduled and such
That I cannot export mailboxes to other clients. Screw .ost !
Outlook doesn't use email addresses to route e-mail with Exchange servers. Instead it uses some internal "address" that is longer than the actual e-mail address. This becomes a problem when an e-mail account is deleted and then recreated later. And the old internal address is still in some users Outlook addressbook. Because the internal address changes when the account is recreated.
Having to use Outlook was a significant contributor to me leaving my last job.
The search function is useless
Outlook always forces me to categorize like it's 2005. I've got two dozens folders because shit is unfindable.
Doesn't help that when it does work, I can't delete everything it finds at one time. I have to repeat the search multiple times. Crazy
I started using Outlook365 in browser during the pandemic, and never switched back. Not that much better, but I prefer the web app running in Firefox to the actual program.
Plus, at this point, if I even opened Outlook proper, Windows would probably freeze while trying to index all of the emails that have come and gone since the last time I opened it.
Idk why MS lets you use add-ins but then they go and disable it if it starts misbehaving according to Microsoft's determination of it doing so and not the actual add-in causing problems. OH—and then guess what? You can't fucking enable every add-in. For some, you can only tell Outlook to not disable it for a month and then it's the same thing all over again. Fucking Microsoft!
EDIT:
Also, who is the bird brain that decided it was a good idea to force add-ins to be managed partially via the browser? Like if I click one of the manage Add-in buttons in the Outlook app, it works just in Outlook but the other one opens up browser.
Also also, why tf are there 2 different Outlook apps now? Why should an image have Outlook New and Outlook Classic? Why tf does the mail app even exist at this point?
The search function doesn't find anything.
It actually finds LOTS of things, except what you're actually want
OneDrive crashes not only the original computer I had the problem on, but the replacement computer that I got (upgrade) as well. Then when I moved to a different office, it crashed another computer and then created the same problem for the one other person using the computer.
And by crashing, I mean the second it tries to do anything everything freezes, and the only way to get out of it is a hard reset.
So OneDrive.
Meeting requests tracking, oh my god. It's a great feature but it's got so many quirks.
Once you decline a meeting, it's gone for good in your calendar. If you accidentally declined, you need to ask for another invite. More commonly, plans changed and now you can't attend when you could have because you forgot all about it.
You can't decline important meetings and still see them in your calendar, so people abuse 'tentative' as 'I want to know when this meeting takes place but I won't attend myself'
Can't organize a meeting and then don't attend yourself. Impossible. Neither can you transfer ownership when you're going on holiday for example, so people are stuck with meeting requests nobody can change
Good luck getting a long series of meetings accepted by a meeting room. Every single instance must be available, that's annoying but makes sense. You can cancel or move individual instances until the meeting room accepts it, but everyone gets spammed with invites.
After you made all manual changes and the meeting room finally accepted it, if you make any changes to the series, everything is reset and the manual adjustments starts all over
If you have to move one or two specific instances to a different room, you can't! You can move in time or cancel an instance, but using the next available room is not possible. Both rooms will decline
Once you decline a meeting, it's gone for good in your calendar. If you accidentally declined, you need to ask for another invite.
If you decline a meeting the original meeting will be moved to the trash. So go to trash and you can accept it again.
Microsoft Outlook
My inbox view gets messed up every now and then and I have to keep resetting it.
An old bug that they're determined not to fix. It's been happening to me at 3 different jobs now
We are asked to use Projects to manage our work, and we then mapped the project's structure into a folder structure using sharepoint. The thing is, this structure leads to very long file paths, and Windows won't let us open the files using the file explorer because the file path is too long, and so we need to search stuff through sharepoint, download as zip files, and end up breaking the intended organization. The projects page helps create the illusion of organization for the higher-ups but in reality it is a hindrance. We don't have admin access to the computer and so we can't change this file path limit setting. This is just the first that came to mind of an endless list of complaints I have.
When you try to change views in a shared calendar, and it automatically switches to your personal calendar in the other view, causing you to go back to the first view, change calendars, then do the exact same thing again.
Every. Damn. Time.
Also cached exchange mode is a disaster...
It's another Electron app now. At least "New Outlook" is.
This. You have to load a whole ******* web renderer context so that developers can more easily add "features" like emojis and animated gifs to a ******* mail client. Same thing with Teams.
It's all so woefully wasteful, slow, painful. But it's OK, we now have loads of RAM, fast SSDs, multi-core multi-thread ultra-fast CPUs anyway, and gifs really are a must-have in modern corporate communication.
Just get out of my lawn.
+ That time they randomly slapped up this tool bar on the left hand side I neither requested nor needed.
I am willing to forget pretty much any fault on Outlook when I compare it with the absolute dogshit product that is New Outlook.
Click on a Toast and it opens the email… in the background, never in the foreground.
Have anything other than Email selected (calendar, for example) and it doesn’t display the New Email notification on the tile, so if you didn’t see the toast and have anything other then Outlook open in the foreground, you don’t know you’ve got new email until you physically go back to Outlook and click on the Email button.
Want to send a spreadsheet as an email attachment from within Excel? The option is there, but it doesn’t work any more (and the same for any other native “send via email” option in your OS out applications).
Want to send a document as an attachment? You have to open a new email, then drag the document into the correct half of the email, because if you have it too far to the left, Outlook will upload it into OneDrive and put a link to it in the email.
I could go on, but fuck me, it’s absolutely disgusting how much this breaks any previous workflow you may have had for doing email quickly and efficiently…
Yeesh. I've been (blessedly) away from MS for a bit now so I'm kind of catching up / watching the carnage from afar.
When you jack up veteran user workflows so much that it makes the OS feel alien...you're really just daring people to jump OS. I know it's not that simple for work environments, but I can't imagine administering this sloppy mess has gotten any easier, so...gonna be fun waiting for the suits to eventually catch up I guess.
New outlook simply removed macros. Thanks Microsoft, I now have to go through all my inbox one email by one email when I come back from leave.
search sucks
The workforce where I work is diverse, so often it's easier to find someone by their first name, but you're not doing that in outlook's address book when names are in "surname, given name" format
Likewise when the address list was changed to "first name surname" you could no longer find someone with just their surname
As a help desk tech, please don't get me started.
But in the spirit of contributing to this post...focused inbox. No Microsoft, I actually wouldn't like to see all my messages and would prefer if you could hide them from me so I miss important shit and get chewed out by my boss.
From my experience outlook flags emails as unimportant, that are quickly deleted, or deleted while being unread. So for me it's not too far off.
When I click in the search-box in the titlebar, Outlook freezes for about 5 seconds.
You can't cut and paste an appointment.
I tried making a template the other day. I was successful, but it's multiple clicks whenever I want to use it. There's no way to customize the ribbon and add a button to use my new template.
I want to set an OOO. I don’t want the OOO to go to people who are emailing a group or list.
I have to run it through a browser because I'm on Linux and it's constantly logging me out Even when I say don't do it don't ask again just keep me logged in. Nope fuck you log out, and sometimes it gets stuck in a loop where I log in and it logs me out immediately over and over until I clear my cache and reset my browser it's insane
The calendar view can't be configured to fit a full 24 hour day and you have to scroll.
