I use the web version and sometimes I’ll be typing into the body of an email and it’ll interpret my keystrokes as shortcuts outside of that email and start deleting random messages and closing the email I was writing.

I learned the hard way that “Delay Send” only sends when you launch the desktop client after the chosen time, instead of just sending at the chosen time like you’d expect.

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.

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

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.

That I cannot export mailboxes to other clients. Screw .ost !

Having to use Outlook was a significant contributor to me leaving my last job.

The search function is useless

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.

The search function doesn’t find anything.

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!

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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?

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

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