Microsoft Edge Insider. Microsoft FastTrack. Microsoft Viva. Core Infrastructure and Security. Education Sector. Microsoft PnP. AI and Machine Learning. Microsoft Mechanics. Healthcare and Life Sciences. Small and Medium Business. Internet of Things IoT. Azure Partner Community. Microsoft Tech Talks. MVP Award Program. Outlook enables you to deal with a large number of emails in your inbox.

You can condense, categorize, and sort emails according to your preference. Moreover, with the new conversation management tools, many emails can be reduced into a few relevant items. To organize conversations, select “Show conversation” on the View tab. The improved ribbon comes in handy to increase user interaction and help you focus on what is essential. It comes with an Ignore button that allows you to get rid of conversation threads that you are not interested in.

This is a section on the Home tab that allows you to perform multiple steps tasks with only one step. For instance, if you want to forward an email, you do not have to retype the address of the new recipient. You click the To X link, and the forwarded message appears with X’s address. As soon as you launch this version, a new look comes into view if you have been using older versions. This version was developed in a bid to draw your focus to what is essential and with a better view. Here are the features that come with this version of MS Outlook:.

With this version, you have complete control of your inbox and can navigate as you please. The feature allows you to:. You can stay on schedule for your appointments without having to switch from email to calendar mode. The feature allows you to monitor and stay on top of your program. You can easily search for your emails, attachments, calendar appointments, and contacts with the utmost ease.

The Microsoft Outlook calendar comes with a weather forecast. You can check out the current weather conditions as you go about your tasks. Such helps you to plan engagements with them; you can email them and schedule meetings based on these cards. Microsoft Outlook was a massive improvement from its predecessor.

Lots of great features were incorporated, and some flaws were fixed to give you a complete user experience. Some of the features that set this version apart from the others include the following:. New terms and language package was added to this version for a better translation. Language barrier used to be a problem, but Outlook came along with a solution. You can translate your text into multiple languages of your choice with the new update on this app.

To translate your text, you highlight it and hit the Translate button. You can then choose whatever language you wish to translate. The Microsoft Outlook new theme is appealing and gives you the warm welcome you need to start your task.

The ribbon has some significant improvement too that makes the outlook experience worthwhile. The quick access bar can be manipulated to display icons of your choice. This feature is only accessible to tablet users. The feature helps you have a better-optimized reading experience when you switch to portrait mode on your tablet.

All your folders get minimized to give you more reading space but can reproduce them by hitting the back button. The trick was to always install the older version before the newer version.

The above is no longer the case when it comes to Office and any of the Office standalone applications. As soon as you install an Office product, all your other previous Office applications need to be uninstalled and upgraded to their Office edition as well if you want to continue to use them.

I do wish Microsoft would provide UWP versions of their core Office apps, including Outlook, that are more touch friendly and feature rich than the current batch of mobile apps. Should be an option in the future for flagged items to go into Cortana as a reminder. A lot of people use flagging to send emails to the top of their inbox to keep them there and making them go into Cortana would be a lot of clutter for them.

True, but flagging requires you to go into the mail app periodically to check on them. Cortana could keep bugging you, until you actually mark them as complete. Or tasks could finally be added to the calendar app, these would sync to Mobile too I meant the emails when I used the word “them. The most wasted features in Enterprise that would make everyone’s life easier is the due to the lack of knowledge and subset of features. This allows me to visually see what emails I’ve missed or scrolled through – Reminders e-mails or tasks with deadlines?

Add a reminder for when to bring it up again. Sometimes I use reminders to ping people who are out of vacation and need to follow up on their return – Search Folders See only emails that have been flagged, or unread – Quick Actions I have set my inbox to not mark anything as read unless i choose too.

Rules are another function that most people don’t like using becasue setting them up are cumbersome. Personally i prefer to use rules on emails that are automated. They tend to have a specific subject line or subject format, and an email they come from. This way if you want to sort it into specific folders, flag, mark as complete or delete – allowing me to focus and sift through unclaimed or unknown emails this system can’t be applied.

I really can’t see my self using any other email client professionally. Personal use – is another story since I don’t have such a time sensitive need and most of the time I spend is deleting emails I find little interest in or reviewing transactions. I actually would love for companies to approach e-mail differently.

If i have these contacts on my address book – they should never go to spam, the client should mark them as VIP from the start in comparison to other emails. If I Starred it, then it would possibly make that email more visible and give it a positive cost. I use most of those features all week I am not sure I could live with out them, I use them so much!

True, they dont say much about these featues but, one you know how to use them, OUtlook client is the ONLY option, it really is that much better.

The article calls Outlook an email client, but it actually is a groupware client – for Exchange. That’s why it offers so much more functionality compared to the very basic mail app, when you are really trying to work with it. You need to connect to the right service of course. It is also working with online services that make use the Exchange ActiveSync protocol. Names are a bit confusing – like Outlook the original Office desktop application , Outlook Mail and Calendar as the apps from the article are called on Mobile and Outlook.

Btw: Outlook the Office application is very usable on the touch screen of my SP3. Outlook can be used as you said in a groupware or corporate but, it can be used for almost any user with any type of email. It is a VERY powerfull client that can be trimmed down to be nice and easy. Yes, that’s basically what I wrote and what is not mentioned in the article.

Just take care that features are limited with the wrong protocol, e. Outloom is usable but I think I prefer mail when I am in tablet mode. Been using since Outlook 98 when I ditched Outlook Express.

Live Mail in Windows 7 days was the best free mail client and MS scrapped it in favor of the new Windows 8 mail client, but that didn’t help people still on Windows 7. Outlook could use a better Live tile, and an official tile just for the calendar. What do you mean, better live tile? It’s not live now. Having a separate calendar that isn’t live either doesn’t seem useful.

They are just app icons on a tile. I like that they are separate apps. At work I am often clicking between mail and calendar to see when I am available or when something is. I find this annoying. When at home I can just have them open side by side. You can open your Outlook calendar in a new window. Some people just don’t know these shortcuts :. I sync all my accounts with my O account on outlook.

Any spam or junk filters are managed from here also. I simply use the Mail app to process messages from any device. I have no issue with the Mail and Calendar apps being separate.

I treat them as separate things anyway. It’s only when I get an invite via email that I need to combine the two The only thing I wish Microsoft would change is to reduce the intervals between syncing mail accounts. I personally prefer Outlook, but Windows Mail does the job in case you can’t afford to chip that extra cash for Office subscription.

Windows Live Mail was discontinued in If you’re talking about Mail app on Windows 10 then yeah. Professionally I love the folder management in Office Outlook moving in mail can be a pain and the category tags. Too bad tasks aren’t supported on Mobile anymore.

I was under the impression that it outlook does not have two way sync for gmail calendar and contacts. Which is a big problem for me. Is this accurate? If so is there a work around? Otherwise I would explicitly use Outlook for all my email too.

With a Google Apps account there is the Google Sync application that works well for me. There is no equivalent for the free Gmail service. That said, there appears to be a new plugin for Outlook that enables 2-way sync of calendar events and contacts. I haven’t tried it, so caveat emptor. I do not use google, except for a junk email address. Our campus is Office What about the online web version of Outlook. Bot Windows Mail and Outlook are only apps to access emails. Those apps require that you have gotten an email addresses from an email provider such as Outlook.

Nope, both Mail and Outlook support email accounts from other providers. Not only that but both will sync mail from Exchange as well. Actually, Outlook. Things that worked perfectly are now in shambles. The website is all I use because of many emails that won’t display properly in the Mail program and also it doesn’t delete emails of the server when deleted from Mail either.

Interesting the author calls it windows mail. I call outlook it oulook mail and calendar windows store app. Because the app is essentially the same as outlook mail for windows 10 mobile. Outlook mail in this article is really the outlook mail desktop app. I think the app should be called outlook mail UWP or Outlook basic.

I think the apps are more than adequate than for daily use or use multiple times a day. For personal bit also business use. I think that if three features could be carried over from the desktop to the windows store app it would be a great compromise between business and personal use. To be able to drag and drop an email as a calendar event.

This has in my experience ben a powerful feature with outlook throughout its history 2. Be able to add rules to incoming email. This would help prioritize and order email into manageable folders.

The system chosen now for the user is to read all incoming mail in the list and swipe manage them one by one. But this does not work well in the long run in my experience. Be able to personalize colors and highlighting of calender events from multiple accounts in one calendar. A color palette is now automatically designated, but this causes an awful patchwork of font colors and highlighting and loss of oversight, essentially becoming dysfunctional.

In my experience the syncing is generally okay and works quite well with the same account on multiple windows mobile devices. There are some glitches sometimes with syncing, bit it usually is more with syncing folders than syncing sent messages or my inbox. Main issue than syncing of folders is a bit slow, not that it does not work in my experience. Coming from outlook mail windows store app from windows 8 this app is much better in many ways.

Especially the calendar has changed alot. But even this accompli version could use many improvements. I think in the UI design is not good. Texts on the calendar could use improved wrapping with little to no text cut offs.

 
 

 

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