Obligitory “I have to use it for my job,” so let’s commiserate.
It’s the worst program in all of the Office Suite. MS wrote the goddamn OS and email client, but for some reason if I have two instances open for two different inboxes and try to pull one up on the taskbar, the wrong instance will pull up every single time without fail.
My runner-up complaint is how when I use the search bar, sometimes it’ll forget what I’m doing and when I hit enter it’ll open some email instead of executing the search.
Every update makes it worse, so what drives you crazy?
Having to use Outlook was a significant contributor to me leaving my last job.
When you have the calendar open it refreshes and blinks while it does that, like every 15 minutes. This never happened with 2016
And people pay through the nose for that crap?
Bullshit left click for spell check now… constantly trying to think for me and distracting me with endless USELESS popups, no spell check in the subject like. It’s awful
You are getting pop-ups in Outlook? What version of Outlook are you using if you don’t mind me asking.
Not Pop up ads, constantly trying to suggest what I am about to type.
And we’re using whatever version of part of Microsoft 365
Its popularity.
That it will automatically try to disable com add-ons even if you tell it not to or create a group policy that tells it not to disable certain add-ons. Still on some machines they will disable. Disabling and re-enabling them from the list often won’t fix the issue as you have to first re-enable them in another menu. If neither work then you have to completely re-install the add-on.
There’s a keyboard shortcut to send an email.
And that keyboard shortcut is exactly the same as the keystroke to insert a line in other applications
I have a rule set up to delay outgoing email 2 minutes almost entirely because of how often I hit ctrl+enter
(Add format to a line, it formats that line and the paragraph above it; “no outlook, I want a paragraph break between those, not two linefeeds” <ctrl+enter>)
honestly their office suite is something I feel they did overall pretty well with. Granted plenty of changes and little things that aggravate me but hard to say as Im not actively using it. Outlook and excel in particular are standouts.
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.
Oh goodness, the Windows filepath limit has caused so many headaches at work. Even if you enable longer filepaths, not all applications pay attention to that, since at some point, Microsoft promised a specific filepath length and some applications hard-coded it in, so Microsoft is kind of locked in to supporting that being the default max filepath length. Not sure if any Office applications fall into that camp, but given that most filepath length errors I see are from Windows itself silently failing to finish extracting a zip archive, it wouldn’t surprise me!
This really sucks when part of the mandatory cloud file path name is “defense information systems agency”. That eats up a lot of the available space.
Yeah SharePoint links are cooked. I copied a url from SharePoint and it crashed my remote session with someone and pretty sure its BSoD my device more than once. Upping the file path limit locally won’t help.
You can go to a SharePoint folder on the site and hit “sync” which will then add it to your file explorer if you have OneDrivs. Makes for easier navigation and collaboration. Fucked if I know how end users were meant to divine that.
The calendar view can’t be configured to fit a full 24 hour day and you have to scroll.
Not being able to unpin email chains unless you change it to non-threaded replies, select all, unpin, then go back to threaded replies like a civilized lifeform. Otherwise it just repins the chain when it refreshes.
Our office also uses teams phones which still don’t have a way to show missed calls. We literally cannot call people back if we don’t get to the med room phone in time.
Oh wow, you may have just solved the issue I’ve been having with email chains I pin coming back! I’ll have to give that unpin trick a try–thank you! That workaround shouldn’t be necessary, of course, but I’m happy to have another option to try to unpin some of the long-past-relevant conversations that have been pinned in my inbox for over a year 😅
And thank you as well for the info about Teams phones. Some folks at work floated the idea of switching to Teams phones instead of our current VOIP setup, but if they don’t show missed calls, I’m glad that idea never came to fruition!
Everything, fuck microsoft.
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 most useless UI element ever invented:
It works on open source stuff I use, at least. Also there’s no hope if you connect over multiple devices, as only one browser on one machine has the authentication cookie
That one happens for me, too. I like to imagine a non-techie trying to use that web version and every time it starts doing the login-logout loop, they have to contact tech support.
For me it happens about once a week. Surely, there’s organizations where this keeps tech support busy all day…
That sounds like a use-case for a separate browser profile. That way when you reset everything you’re not affecting every other site you visit.
I especially like this in MS Teams
It looks like it’s working fine, then you try to join a meeting and randomly get one of:
- It works
- “We’re setting things up for you” for up to 10 minutes
- “Your organisation does not allow remote connections”
- Automatically logs in like you authorised it last time
It always works fine if you close your browser and re-open it between uses of teams.microsoft.com
Have you seen the one where you’re actually in a meeting and it warns that you’ve been logged out but still lets you continue your meeting?
has been a long time since I used teams on my phone. It used to log me out constantly there too… but it kept sending notifications of all messages to the phone until I opened the actual app to be told I was logged out
I haven’t, but wow am I unsurprised
Trying to find the search button, depending on what you have open it is hidden completely.
Are we talking about Outlook or “New Outlook”? Everyone that I’ve heard that switch to new Outlook has had nothing but pain that you can’t “do the thing” you used to any more. Like “Meeting with All”.
Important emails from contacts I had for years flagged as spam.
