That was a lot of stuff to fit in one menu, so you needed to use submenus to get to things. That new All menu on the right collected all the same menus the previous controls had, but squished them all together into one menu item. Or if your window was wider it looked like this, with Search box to right: In May of 2017 they replaced that with simply the folder name ( Inbox), and an “ All” menu, as shown here: What they’d had for most of 2016 through May of 2017 was this sequence of controls/buttons that you see at the top of the image below, specifically: All Unread By Date and Newest. By “menus” I mean the sorting and filtering controls right above the list of mail, but below the Ribbon menus. You are not catering for the dummies as they are switching away when they need to do something non-standard.Almost exactly a year ago, Microsoft changed the menus at the top of the Windows Desktop Outlook 2016 Inbox. You can colour the product in different every other year but don’t remove the features we bother to learn how to use. So my message to Microsoft would be, please can we have the old features back. I use them all of the time at work and at home. I think Microsoft Outlook and the other office products are great. They either send emails using another device such as their phone or tablet (non-Windows) or use a different mail client. I’ve been meaning to write this for a while as I’ve had many people call me giving up trying to send mail using Microsoft Outlook. Find the Mail application within the Control Panel. From Windows search for the Control Panel and open it.If you are using Microsoft Outlook 2016 or later (including Outlook 365), it’s similar steps but not in Outlook. Outlook 2016 (or later) Advanced Mailbox Options Once tests have completed select Close and then Finish.Change the Outgoing server (SMTP) option to 587.Select your email account from the lists in the Email tab and select Change.Select Account Settings from the dropdown.Outlook 2013 (and earlier) Advanced Mailbox Optionsįirst of all, how it used to be, if you are using Microsoft Outlook 2013 or earlier. In the following examples, I want to change the outgoing SMTP port from 25 to 587. To hijack the Weyland-Yutani slogan, we could say, Microsoft is building dumber worlds.Īnyway, this is not an article about Microsoft, it’s about finding the Advanced Options in Microsoft Outlook so here goes. They think users are put off or are scared of an “Advanced” link or even an “Options” button. All because they want to make it easier for users to perform this common set-up tasks and don’t want to confuse them. Microsoft have now removed the Advanced Options from Outlook. For example, I was very familiar with a Word Mail-merge but all power was taken or hidden away to make things easier for those that shouldn’t really be using a computer. They couldn’t just give it a new look every two years, they had to add (or remove) features.įirst of all the file structure change (which was a good move) but then the removal of some much loved features (not so good) to dumb down common tasks. I suppose, Microsoft Office had become so good by 2003, that they had to start tinkering. I don’t know who decided to drop it, but I find this sort of feature removal a reason for not upgrading. Unless of course, you need to access the advanced options for a custom set-up.Īll is not lost, however, as you can still get to the advanced options just not through Microsoft Outlook. Since Microsoft released the 2016 edition of its Outlook product, setting up a new email address has become very easy.
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