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?
The fucking thing cannot search. I like to keep my email as conversation mode, but regardless if I get an attachment or I can remember some of the words in the email I would search for it and maybe 10% of the time I would find it.
It’s incredibly frustrating how useless the search function is.
My favorite is when I search for something and nothing comes up, but I search again and it brings up a hundred results. So I have to search everything twice if there are no results just to make sure.
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’ve seen this bug in the outlook web app too. Like it suddenly thinks I’m holding ctrl or something, then every keystroke in middle of typing an email become commands to mess up my inbox and delete my drafts.
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.
Unreliable search, can’t handle one online and one local postbox side by side (both have to be turned to online postbox), it messes up my contacts every chance it gets, rules don’t work on the online postboxes,… And everything is so slow!
I am so happy with my Linux setup, but for this one costumer I have to use this shitty piece of software.
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.
Nope, it’s their CRM. I have actually written a chrome extension to deshitify their web app and have passed it around for my company to use. It hides clutter, the stupid copilot, those triple navigation bars that take up half the screen real estate, opens all notes, color codes some things.
The minimize button closes the application.
You can’t AND/OR combine filters. If i want to move stuff into “Gitlab trash” automatically, I need to use different rules instead of one with multiple applying conditions
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
Sometimes tasks go to the trash randomly. It doesn’t happen consistently enough to see what causes it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Same. Also when I set rules to send stuff to specific folders sometimes I cant see them there, but if I search for the email specifically it finds it. WTF?
I found out by accident, when I was checking a new daily report and some dates were not visible in the folder, but I could find them via search.
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
The search function doesn’t find anything.
It actually finds LOTS of things, except what you’re actually want
Ctrl+f is not find
Came here to say this. Ctrl+f is find in every other Microsoft product, it’s their own damn standard.
Did you know that Microsoft changes keyboard shortcuts based on locale? In Italian they set search to Shift+F5.
Shit drives me crazy.That makes sense. The Italian word for find doesn’t start with f
It doesn’t start with F5 either, and why shift? What’s more, it’s inconsistent, sometimes they still use ctrl+f, and every other application uses that anyway
Most of the F keys had other meanings, so shift, as all shifted f keys were open
Every other application
Don’t blame Microsoft for other applications not being localised
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.
Imagine a world where simple old Thunderbird became the corporate standard. No bullshit, just you, the keyboard, and the blank slate of plain text email.
Good news! Emojis are also available in GMail now!
https://mspoweruser.com/google-workspace-adds-emoji-api-expands-gemini-features-in-latest-update/
