[Trainer-Talk] Bringing Back the Classic Outlook

Mon Sep 21 16:31:06 UTC 2026

Showe:

The New Outlook is a huge drain on productivity and efficiency, and it does lack many features that the Classic Outlook already possesses. Have you tried spell checking a message with the F7 key? Try figuring out what word is being misspelled.

Try jumping to a specific date in the calendar that is more than a week into the future or the past. You can't just hit Control G, type in a date, and get there.

Try using the copy/paste method to detach files from a message you have received. That method doesn't work.

Try explaining to your students when the screen reader virtual cursor should be on or off at certain points of the email procedure.

Try telling your student what to do when, after pressing escape, all of the New Outlook screens go away!

Need I go on?

Cordially,

Curtis Chong

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Subject: Re: [Trainer-Talk] Bringing Back the Classic Outlook

Can someone tell me what is actually so bad about the new Outlook? I'm using it and I am not having that much trouble with it. There's a lot of F6-ing maybe? I always get my Inbox to refocus when I press ctrl+shft+I and I am able to do a lot of what I need. I especially love how my Gmail calendar syncs without a problem whereas in classic, it won't. Gross! lol I am so curious what is wrong with modern Outlook because I am teaching it just fine. Thanks for the info. 

Showe

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> On Sep 21, 2026, at 7:59 AM, Sotomayor, Yadiel (DBVI) via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> New Outlook is terrible. I'm usually one for jumping into the latest and greatest, but new Outlook is just a mess. Especially if you use NVDA as your primary screen reader. With JAWS is a little better, but not by much. If you want instructions on how to install the classic outlook, Microsoft Help Desk has a great article. I recommend bookmarking this page, since search engines like Google are deprioritizing it.
> 
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/install-or-reinstall-classic-outlook-on-a-windows-pc
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> Thanks for confirming that.
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> It was office home and business, and as I understand it, outlook is included in that as well as word, PowerPoint, and excel.
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>> On Sep 20, 2026, at 5:26 PM, Brian Vogel via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Matt McDiemert wrote, in part: " I have seen it often in an install
>> of Office 2024 I just setup a brand new system on Friday and after
>> Office install there is no classic, . . ."
>> 
>> The question is which Office 2024 edition did you use?  The edition
>> you use will determine whether Outlook is included or not.
>> 
>> Any Windows 10 or Windows 11 computer will have Outlook for Windows,
>> which shares the same user interface with New Outlook in the various
>> paid iterations.  That free version gets overlayed, for lack of a
>> better way of putting it, with the paid version if a paid version of
>> modern Outlook is installed.
>> 
>> I'll let Copilot lay out the M365 versus Office 2024 differences:  If
>> installed today, September 20, 2026, does Micro | Shared Copilot Chat
>> <https://copilot.cloud.microsoft/chat/share/eyJzaGFyZUlkIjoiMjYwZDUyM2
>> YtMjJiOC00Njc1LTkxYzEtYTc4ODMxNzJmMTA4IiwiY29udmVyc2F0aW9uSWQiOiI2MGQw
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