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UTUSN

(72,403 posts)
Tue Aug 6, 2019, 11:19 PM Aug 2019

Is Outlook buggy or is it that I don't go deep into instructions?

For years I used the then free Outlook Express, which was fantastic. Eventually it was discontinued, and gmail came along. Fine, sort of. I find gmail to be buggy and clumsy to navigate.

So several months ago I decided to bite the pay bullet and got Outlook. To my surprise, it has been nowhere as smooth to navigate as the old, free Outlook Express.

Fairly often, while typing moderately long e-mails, I get a STUCK experience. It starts with with whatever I do with the keyboard, the heaviness of my touch or whatever, such that the display ZOOMS in to small typeface. The font stays the same but the display shrinks. Then the keyboard goes non-functioning. The cursor goes non-existent, just cannot do any typing.

I've tried double tapping or swiping closed or open to get things back and nothing works. I invariably end up highlighting the whole message, Copying, then Pasting it into a new blank email, discarding the first one.

As for gmail, it has far fewer font size options and the Contacts is a disaster. But I'm really asking about Outlook here. Thanks for anything.






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Is Outlook buggy or is it that I don't go deep into instructions? (Original Post) UTUSN Aug 2019 OP
Yes, it's a real pain. I bet you'd like Mozilla Thunderbird, greyl Aug 2019 #1
Thanks. Yes, Express was great. UTUSN Aug 2019 #2
. Susan Calvin Aug 2019 #3
Yea, "dumping" everything (Outlook & gmail) - whole, long, 30 minutes' worth of stuff UTUSN Aug 2019 #4
INCREDIBLE! - twice today all my crap *disappeared* by one keystroke (no idea)!!!!!!!!!!!!! UTUSN Aug 2019 #5

Susan Calvin

(2,097 posts)
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Wed Aug 7, 2019, 04:28 AM
Aug 2019
http://aatvi.blogspot.com/2013/02/i-picked-up-magic-8-ball-other-day-and.html?m=1

I also like Thunderbird. The only trouble with it, and it's a trouble with almost everything, is that when you update sometimes it dumps all the tweaking that you've done.

UTUSN

(72,403 posts)
4. Yea, "dumping" everything (Outlook & gmail) - whole, long, 30 minutes' worth of stuff
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 09:05 AM
Aug 2019

But as the low tech that I am, I won't install almost any programs






UTUSN

(72,403 posts)
5. INCREDIBLE! - twice today all my crap *disappeared* by one keystroke (no idea)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 08:25 PM
Aug 2019

This time it was in Gmail.






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