pctechguide.com

  • Home
  • Guides
  • Tutorials
  • Articles
  • Reviews
  • Glossary
  • Contact

Outlook Gets Some New Features

outlookMicrosoft Outlook has stood the test of time as a personal information manager and email client. It has faced some stiff competition in the past, but it has weathered many storms to stay at the top of this vertical. Thankfully, Microsoft has kept innovation alive despite being on top. The new version available in Office 365 is loaded with some new features that you may find useful.

Crisp, Clean User Interface

Outlook in Office 365 now features a simplified, cleaner user interface (UI) that aims to help you work more efficiently. A new Action bar is available across Mail, Calendar, People and Task experiences, for utmost convenience and ease of use. The Action toolbar provides quick access to commands like clearing your inbox, replying to an email or adding an event to your calendar.

The email subject line is larger and more prominent, and messages in the reading pane are now indented for easier reading. More buttons in Calendar allow for simpler navigation and quicker creation of new meetings.

More Control over Inbox

New tools have been added to help you sort through your email and identify the most important items to tackle first.

  • Pin – you can now pin any message in your inbox to have it highlighted in yellow and kept at the top of your inbox. This keeps important messages handy and prevents them from getting lost in your inbox.
  • Sweep – provides a simple set of actions to manage emails from specific senders, great for managing recurring messages like newsletters and special promotions. You can choose to keep messages from a specific sender for a specified number of days, only keep the most recent message, or delete all messages from the sender.
  • Archive – quickly move messages out of the inbox to a folder of choice with one-click archiving.
  • Undo – undo unintended actions with a single click.
  • Improved single-line view – a preview of the message contents in line with the subject, allowing you to perform common actions in bulk and more quickly.
  • Immersive reading pane – when in single-line view, clicking a message now displays the message in the same window.
More Interactive Emails

Outlook in Office 365 now provides the ability to easily resize images, add custom borders, apply shadow effects, rotate images, and more. Emojis have also been added, so you can express yourself better than ever before. You can also find the people you want to reach more easily; when you place your cursor on the recipient line, Outlook shows a list of the people and distribution groups you most commonly email. The list of recipients is automatically refined as you type, and adapts as the people you email change over time.

Enhanced Calendar Functions

Calendar now features a five-day weather forecast. Icons next to each day give you a quick look at the forecast, and clicking on one will show a more detailed view. Calendar now supports charms – icons you can choose from to apply as visual cues that help you quickly identify different types of events. For instance, you can add an airplane charm to an upcoming flight, a music note for a piano class, and so on.

You can also create email reminders for any Calendar event and specify the recipient list, include a quick message, and set the day and time you want the email reminder to be sent. Birthday and holiday calendars are also available, and can be either overlaid across your work calendar or viewed separately.

Enhanced for Mobile Devices

A number of UI and navigational improvements has been made to enhance the mobile browsing experience, including updates to more closely resemble the UI of Outlook apps on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. Navigation has been improved in order to simplify switching between Mail, Calendar and People, and comes along with more prominent search commands. A better UI allows for the simpler creation of new events and ease of using the scheduling assistant in Calendar, and the Time strip has been updated to show the full week within the calendar. You can now switch between emails without returning to the message list, too.

Filed Under: Articles

Latest Articles

Service That Succeeds: How To Build an Effective IT Service Desk

In today’s tech-forward world, building a capable IT service team is essential for businesses hoping to scale tech-related hurdles and soar past the competition. Whether you’re hoping to reduce downtime through technician troubleshooting or aid consumers with digital malfunctions, investing in an … [Read More...]

Scanner Operation

On the simplest level, a scanner is a device which converts light (which we see when we look at something) into 0s and 1s (a computer-readable format). In other word, scanners convert analogue data into digital data and can have a Document Data Capture. All scanners work on the same principle of … [Read More...]

8 Principles of ISO 9001 Requirements

We previously wrote an article on the importance of quality control in software development. There are a number of principles to consider. One of the best sets of guidelines is outlined under the ISO 9001 standards. What is ISO 9001? You can find the following description helpful. "The ISO … [Read More...]

20 Cool Creative Commons Photographs About the Future of AI

AI technology is starting to have a huge impact on our lives. The market value for AI is estimated to have been worth $279.22 billion in 2024 and it … [Read More...]

13 Impressive Stats on the Future of AI

AI technology is starting to become much more important in our everyday lives. Many businesses are using it as well. While he has created a lot of … [Read More...]

Graphic Designers on Reddit Share their Views of AI

There are clearly a lot of positive things about AI. However, it is not a good thing for everyone. One of the things that many people are worried … [Read More...]

Redditors Talk About the Impact of AI on Freelance Writers

AI technology has had a huge impact on our lives. A 2023 survey by Pew Research found that 56% of people use AI at least once a day or once a week. … [Read More...]

11 Most Popular Books on Perl Programming

Perl is not the most popular programming language. It has only one million users, compared to 12 million that use Python. However, it has a lot of … [Read More...]

10 Exceptional Books on ChatGPT that Will Blow Your Mind

ChatGPT is a powerful new AI tool that is taking the world by storm. You are going to find a lot of amazing books that will teach you how to make the … [Read More...]

Guides

  • Computer Communications
  • Mobile Computing
  • PC Components
  • PC Data Storage
  • PC Input-Output
  • PC Multimedia
  • Processors (CPUs)

Recent Posts

Connecting External DV Converter Hardware to VCR and PC for VHS Video to DVD Transfer

Connecting up the ADVC-55 external DV converter to your PC and VCR is fairly straightforward. First, connect up either composite video RCA … [Read More...]

Can Samsung Galaxy Alpha Contend Against The Best?

The Samsung Galaxy Alpha is still at the beginning of its sizzling days as it was only introduced in August 2014 and released in the market in … [Read More...]

Motherboard Memory Identification

Your motherboard User's Manual will give a clue as to what type of memory you need to use. However, such is the complexity and variation of memory … [Read More...]

[footer_backtotop]

Copyright © 2025 About | Privacy | Contact Information | Wrtie For Us | Disclaimer | Copyright License | Authors