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?
Its popularity.
The search function is useless
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
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.
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.
It’s made by raccoons that live in a PCP factory dumpster. Also why the fuck do we need 4 different teams applications
Fuck Microsoft.
Microsoft Outlook
“What drives you crazy about MS Outlook?”
“YES”
Jesus. Basically everything about it. We use the web client at work, so might be a different set of annoyances.
deep breath I use slashes in 70% of the e-mails I write as the punctuation mark that they are - I have never and will never want it to start randomly guessing what files I want to attach to the e-mail when I type a slash.
I actually didn’t hate that if you typed something like “23rd” it would make the rd super-script - until the day it started doing it so incredibly wrong that it would super-script the ‘3’ and the ‘r’ and change the ‘d’ to a ‘th’ so it read “23rth”.
Several times per day it will show a folder name in bold with a number in parenthesis telling me I have new messages in that folder, but when I click on the folder it highlights nothing as new messages, so I have to just remember what the last message I actually read was. Search sucks. Rarely can I open attachments. I told a coworker just yesterday that if they want to keep something secret from me, their best bet is to put the secret in an e-mail attachment and e-mail it to me.I think the bad superscript is not a thing on the desktop app. I wonder if that’s AI learning autocomplete
The minimize button closes the application.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Exactly all this! Man, its like sitting on an uncomfortable chair but with my hands. I spend more time googling where something is or how to turn a setting off. It’s awful.
The search function doesn’t find anything.
It actually finds LOTS of things, except what you’re actually want
That I cannot export mailboxes to other clients. Screw .ost !
When you try to change views in a shared calendar, and it automatically switches to your personal calendar in the other view, causing you to go back to the first view, change calendars, then do the exact same thing again.
Every. Damn. Time.
Also cached exchange mode is a disaster…
At work we constantly have issues requiring the need to recreate the Ms outlook profile. We made a script for deleting and adding back the ocp or whatever it’s called
