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RantHow is Office, I mean Microsoft 365 so, SO broken? Pin
Chris Maunder16-Sep-22 4:50
cofounderChris Maunder16-Sep-22 4:50 
I've always struggled with Outlook / Office / Microsoft / name de jour 365 and its contact management. I have a list of addresses. But they are sometimes referred to as contacts. Or folders. And some dialogs give you all your contacts. Some, when you select "All address books" show that you have no contacts. Or random AD addresses from 15 years ago.

So I'm trying to move all my personal accounts from Office, I mean Microsoft, work account to my personal account. I figured I'd just create a new contact list and apply a rule to any email that arrives and is in that contact list.

I feel like I'm in the worst sort of government bureaucracy:

Well, sir, it looks like you're trying to manage People, not Contacts, but be sure that you aren't looking at Addresses, unless you want to create a Group which provides its own email list and space for Conversations, but if you're trying to move a Person from Contacts you need to decide which List or Group, unless you want to move it to a Folder. Now: have you considered creating a Category for Person in your Contacts, but not your Addresses, and when I say Addresses, I mean the Global Address book and...

Head asplodes.

Whatever happened to a list of contacts. An "All" list, and then other lists based on need. And when I say "all" I mean: show me all contacts, not "all except the ones hidden in that random list under that subcategory in that obscure dialog that's so old it has Office 2010 styling".

I hate that a company with the vast, vast resources such as Microsoft won't invest the time needed to simplify the legacy baggage that's lying around. Or better yet: remove it. Provide a migration tool, and kill the old system. They want everyone on Azure, for everything, anyway.
cheers
Chris Maunder

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