What's new in Outlook 2016

Outlook has seen more changes than any other Microsoft Office application - this pages summarises the most important ones.

Attachments

You can now see the files you've recently been editing when you add an attachment:

Since it's likely you'll be attaching a file you've just been editing, this has to be a good idea.

Received attachments each have their own drop down menu:

Again, someone at Microsoft has obviously thought about this!

365 groups stored in OneDrive

If you have Office 365 Enterprise mailboxes enabled, there are a few new features in Outlook 2016.  You can find a good list of them all here.

Quick steps

Although I haven't found any mention of this on the Internet, I don't remember it being in Outlook 2013.  In addition to rules, you can create quick steps:

A few quick steps have already been created for you.

A quick step can consist of one or more instructions:

Here we're creating a quick step to delete a message permanently.

You can assign short-cut keys and tooltips to quick steps:

Here pressing CTRL + SHIFT + 1 will run this quick step.

Of course, you can always run the quick step by clicking on it:

Irritatingly, the permanent deletion warning dialog box still appears though!

As the final part of this blog, I'll summarise changes specific to Access, PowerPoint, Visio and Word.  This won't take long!