Outlook 2013 deprecated features and components

re: Outlook 2013 deprecated features and components

bobbiesue — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:37:45 GMT

I just installed office professional plus 2013 today, because my pro plus 2010 outlook decidied it didn't want to send mail. Now with the new for the life of me I can't figure out how to create a group. All my contacts are there, but the create a group icon never allows me to select it. any help??

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Brian Barnett — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:01:24 GMT

What is the timeframe for calendar publishing to be available in Outlook 2013?

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njimack — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:16:41 GMT

How about giving us back the ability to hide message headers in the preview pane. This was removed from OL 2010 with no explanation. The kb article which explains that the checkbox no longer works specifically states that this feature is useful to those of us with limited screen real estate. It's actually useful to pretty much everyone. I know a lot of users who had to reinstall 2007 since there's no workaround.

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krisdmaudlin — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:23:03 GMT

extended feature of outlook 2013 are better comparison to previous version , and the cached mode feature are great and awesome.

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re: Outlook 2013 deprecated features and components

Nitz Walsh — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:44:02 GMT

Truly can't fathom the decision to remove mail and calendar items from desktop search. Really, what is the logic here? Sometimes if you're looking for a file the only place you would have it would be as an attachment.

Just because Windows8 takes a giant step backwards in search usability doesn't mean the Office team needs to follow suit.

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Edward B — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:23:44 GMT

Errr. Why kill off Outlook Express importing? It is still alive [well for another 15 months]. So if someone just got Windows 7 or 8 and wanted to use Outlook, they can't import Outlook Express mail. That's dumb [well, Apple has done it for a while actually.]

Now someone has to install Outlook 2010, 2007 or 2003 as a trial just to import their mail, remove the old Office/Outlook and install Outlook 2013.

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IT Monkey — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:31:19 GMT

Most deprecated feature: usability. I tried it for about a month and finally had to uninstall it.

You can no longer make changes to meetings in the To Do bar on the right. Cannot drag/drop meetings to a day to create them. Can no longer connect to a meeting workspace in SharePoint. New mail notification has no features, you used to be able to quickly delete a message that popped up if you wanted, but now you can just open or close the message. "Working elsewhere" is a great idea, but does not work with ActiveSync, the meeting will just not be synced, so a great idea that will need to be disabled.

Can no longer change the location of IMAP trash which causes mail to go to an unknown location in GMail.

And the "color" schemes? Really? 3 shades of gray, when did gray become a primary color? Was everyone reading 50 Shades of Gray and loved it so much they put it into the products, it is terrible to look at your screen for any amount of time.

There are more problems, but since I removed it, that is all I can think of right now.

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pydel — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:35:21 GMT

It seems that drag & drop an email on a specific date in the calendar does not work any more too.

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laursaurus — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:07:25 GMT

answers.microsoft.com/.../mail-sync

Why are you ruining our lives after we've been duped into using Outlook.com? This has been going on for at least a month. Now we're told to delete our email account on all our devices and Outlook 2010 AND 2013. Tell them after we've done that wait for a response (which we'll have to go online to retrieve) then " manually add it back as a POP account which won't sync calendars, contacts, or most of our email we were duped into receiving "all in one place". YOU SUCK!!! I LOVED Outlook and Outlook.com because it worked beautifully for 6 months. Now it's not only useless. No one at Microsoft gives a damn. The outrageous process users are now being told to go through in fruitless attempts to just get their email is bizarre. The Microsoft website instructions for using Outlook.com remain online snaring more of the public into this nightmarish trap. What the forum mods are telling us to do is completely different from what the public is directed to do. It's not just Outlook 2013. Our phones, including Windows 8 phones are unable to contact the server. This "too many devices are syncing" error shuts down the Outlook programs when just a single PC is used. Believe me, I've stripped it from everything but my PC. I've disconnected all the apps, deleted every folder that wasn't there by default, had my account "reset on the backend:" multiple times to no avail. I'm just one of thousands of users who's lives and businesses are being turned upside down. The only way to communicate with tech support is to post in these forums and wait for one of the mods to tell you you're an idiot for using Office 2013 preview with important data. But this is happening to 2010 customers, Windows 8 owners, everything that is connected to both Outlook.com and Hotmail. WHY are you still promoting and encouraging people to move to Outlook.com/hotmail when it's just going to screw up their lives? Why won't anyone at Microsoft even acknowledge this total malfunction, much less fix it. Apple was ripped to shreds for dropping Google Maps on the IO6 update. They publicly acknowledged the blunder, got on the stick, and the app was soon offered again for free to all users. Is the media afraid to take on Microsoft? This isn't just a change to the format, like Facebook and YouTube get flack for doing. This is a true injustice and show of indifference and incompetence. But nobody cares! Tell a tech geek about these woes and they'll glibly tell you "well, Outlook never did work for me. I don't use it so how would I know how to fix it?" Thanks, for telling me I'm an idiot.!

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Goodjob66 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:52:53 GMT

I agree this is a HUGE step backwards. In a business context I regulalry need to search across emails and documents. . For years now the move has been towards aggregated search results from Mutiple repositories in order to improve productivity and decision making. Taking this away will be the fundamental reason as to why I will not upgrade until I have to.

Additionally, for unknown reasons, Ive found that Outlook 2010 search (which seems a little flakey) is less responsive than Windows Explorer Search.