My minimize icon (-) in outlook is missing.

Question

I am unable to minimize an email while drafting it. I'm not prepared to send it and I need to look in email for other content, but I'm stucki. Never had this before,

Please help

Answer 1

Hi @Kathy Anthony ,

I tried to reproduce your problem and I found that when I right click a file and choose send to > mail recipient. This will open an Outlook message window with the file attached. In the upper right corner, there is no minimize button.

Do you start a new message window with "Send To -> Mail Recipients"? According to https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_other/filesend-tomail-recipi... , it opens a new message as a modal form, and it can't be minimized. So either save your message to drafts and then close it or close it by sending it.

For additional info see:
Outlook not accessible when writing email

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Answer 2

Thank you for answering my question.