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?
Sometimes tasks go to the trash randomly. It doesn’t happen consistently enough to see what causes it.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 !
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
Having to use Outlook was a significant contributor to me leaving my last job.
The search function doesn’t find anything.
It actually finds LOTS of things, except what you’re actually want
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.
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.
