Outlook being Outlook
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And below this message, the results of the successful search
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Maybe it encountered an error before it could deliver the last search result.
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@lb_ The error appeared when the search started. The search then ran to successful completion, finding all the revelant emails.
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Outlook
Found your problem.
Seriously though, I always have problems with Outlook search. It's possible I should maybe do more with inbox folders and better categorization or something, but Outlook search is always the most fiddly thing I have to use on a day-to-day basis at work.
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@raceprouk said in Outlook being Outlook:
And below this message, the results of the successful search
It didn't say it couldn't search, it said it couldn't complete the search. Reading comprehension.
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@blakeyrat said in Outlook being Outlook:
@raceprouk said in Outlook being Outlook:
And below this message, the results of the successful search
It didn't say it couldn't search, it said it couldn't complete the search. Reading comprehension.
And yet I got complete search results
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@raceprouk How do you know?
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@e4tmyl33t said in Outlook being Outlook:
Seriously though, I always have problems with Outlook search.
At least you only have problems with the search. Since the last release, my Outlook doesn't even connect to the Exchange server at all. I have to use fucking IMAP, which defeats the whole purpose of Outlook. And as an additional bonus, replies sent from another computer sometimes won't show up in Outlook, despite being saved in the correct folder.
Outlook 2016 is a buggy piece of shit and should die in a fire.
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Status: Not sure if connected or not...
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What is this black square attacking my Outlook?
The square is not as powerful as attachments or calendar entries. Email contents and scrollbars have a mixed record.
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@Gearhead That looks like a Contact Card popup.
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@Tsaukpaetra Great observation. When I move Outlook, the black square moves together with Outlook. Is the Contact Card always the same size or does it vary by contact or computer resolution? Either way, I can log onto a separate computer and compare.
I'll not restart Outlook before getting to the bottom of this!
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@Gearhead said in Outlook being Outlook:
Is the Contact Card always the same size or does it vary by contact or computer resolution?
It varies in height and width depending on expansion state and how much details are able to be beheld.
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@e4tmyl33t I have the same experience and use the same workaround. I've also found that the Outlook Web App is much better for search than the desktop app.
For some odd reason the desktop app becomes near unusable after doing a search for mails from years ago, even after you found what you were looking for and moved on. It becomes tedious to close and open Outlook because I accidentally searched a term that applied to stuff from ages ago
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@Tsaukpaetra The black square is exactly 500 x 500 pixels. Further, it moves together with the upper left position of the main window; resizing the right or bottom does not change the square position.
I tried Outlook on a different computer, and found no window or control that behave the same way. When you move the window, the contact card disappears, unless it is pinned.
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In Outlook, a word can be half grammar error (blue double line) and half spelling error (red wavy line).
100% reproducible. Type: "Get apple." With cursor after "t", add space "a" then space. Backspace to remove the space, then type "n."
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@Gearhead Could that be that it marks the
aas a grammar error, and if you then type thenagainst it, considers the two to be separate words because it has already marked thea? Which kind of implies it does spelling/grammer checking on a copy of the text that changes along with the actual text of the message, I suppose.
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@Gurth This is a strange little WTF-let. "Get a apple" is a grammatical error, and deserves the double underline. It seems Outlook fails to coelesce the "a" and "n". But I do the same thing starting with "Eat apple" and I don't get any underlines. Or I type "Get a apple" directly and also no underline.
This is Outlook 2022. I observe this behavior in Word as well.
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@Gearhead said in Outlook being Outlook:
I observe this behavior in Word as well.
That's unsurprising as Outlook utilizes the Word engine for its editor.
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@e4tmyl33t said in Outlook being Outlook:
@Gearhead said in Outlook being Outlook:
I observe this behavior in Word as well.
That's unsurprising as Outlook utilizes the Word engine for its editor.
Truth in advertising.
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Just One Byte!
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@Gearhead said in Outlook being Outlook:
@Gurth This is a strange little WTF-let. "Get a apple" is a grammatical error, and deserves the double underline. It seems Outlook fails to coelesce the "a" and "n". But I do the same thing starting with "Eat apple" and I don't get any underlines. Or I type "Get a apple" directly and also no underline.
This is Outlook 2022. I observe this behavior in Word as well.
This needs some AI. Soon:
What about "Get a cake"?
Or, if you opt-in for development mode:
Suggestion: "Eat shit"
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@Luhmann Outlook is the worst email program — except for all the others.
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Status: Logged into loaner device because I left mine at home and didn't want to go all the way back.
It fucked my rules up.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Outlook being Outlook:
It fucked my rules up.
Status: Poor schmuck walked in. His Outlook rules seppuku'd (he said he'd had a few hundred).
Apparently, attempting to recreate any of those rules makes it look Ok, but do not get saved on the server. And on next sync, the server's empty rule list gets copied down and deletes the rules.
Luckily, setting up rules in OWA seems to work!
Except of you interact with the fat client's rules window in any way, whereupon it tries to sync with the server, server deletes all the rules (even the ones set up in OWA) and sends the empty rules back.
Obliterating their Outlook profile on the computer and reinstalling Office did not help at all.
Fucking madness, I swear.
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Okay the new web app based desktop app is beta software, but this is still funny.
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Status: Apparently in the latest version, they're moving the Navigation Bar (which is positioned horizontally at the bottom of the window under the folder list) to the left (positioned vertically and wasting 37x more space).
Why? Because fuck you that's why.
At least there's an option to "temporarily" turn it off until they force it on again.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Outlook being Outlook:
Because fuck you that's why
Microsoft's official company policy for the last 30 years.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Outlook being Outlook:
Apparently in the latest version, they're moving the Navigation Bar
you are running a few dozen versions behind aren't you?
There is even a newer version ... not recommended since beta at best
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@Luhmann said in Outlook being Outlook:
you are running a few dozen versions behind aren't you?
IT decides who will update and who will die.
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@Tsaukpaetra
We solved that issue temporarily by having 2/3 of the IT team jump ship. I can't imagine the remaining dude lasting long.
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@Luhmann So no updates for all of you?
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@BernieTheBernie
Pfff ... not testing or veting the updates is the fastes solution so no luck there ...
Hope the new external dudes last longer then the last batch.
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@Luhmann said in Outlook being Outlook:
@BernieTheBernie
Pfff ... not testing or veting the updates is the fastes solution so no luck there ...
Hope the new external dudes last longer then the last batch.If not, I know a company with a great NOC-for-hire and IT implementation consultants
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Status: Outlook would like to send the message when people are working....?
Um, everyone on the list is at work right this second, what are you smoking
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Outlook being Outlook:
Um, everyone on the list is at work right this second
To be fair they'd probably rather not receive more emails.
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@Tsaukpaetra Somehow, I don't think 06:00 Sunday is when most people will be working. Very likely none of them will be working then. Give them a nice surprise when they do show up for work on Monday. Especially if you click the
and start the subject with "URGENT".
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@Luhmann said in Outlook being Outlook:
not recommended since beta at best
IOW, it's the stable release version
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Well maybe if you didn't Neuralize yourself maybe you wouldn't have so many problems remembering things that are there....
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@Tsaukpaetra
Typical Windows user's daily struggle
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Apparently this popup menu in the Mac version is its own window, as every time you open it by hovering your mouse there, the main window's "traffic light" buttons are grayed out.
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@marczellm It’s clearly not a standard popup menu control, because that doesn’t show a focus rectangle — it puts the focus colour as a full background behind the item your mouse pointer is over (or after you press the arrow keys), and doesn’t highlight anything if the pointer is elsewhere, with a checkmark before the item currently selected in the popup menu. So yeah, that looks like they rolled their own. I’m not surprised, given this comes from Microsoft.
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@Gurth said in Outlook being Outlook:
So yeah, that looks like they rolled their own. I’m not surprised, given this comes from Microsoft.
I particularly "like" how they went all rounded, but didn't match the centres of the rounded parts so they end up with extra white around the selection in the upper corners in that picture. It's a little thing that would annoy me a lot, so I had to share so you could be annoyed by it too.
Getting started with the new Outlook for Windows - Microsoft Support
