How to Open Emails in Separate Window in New Outlook

Question

I cant select the open new window in customise actions

Answer 1

I completely agree!

Why would you change this? And give no option to revert to usual practice?

• I must have opened hundreds of thousands of emails in my life with Outlook. Always the same thing happened. Now it is denied. Unacceptable!
• Also, when I double-click on an email in the list, it does NOT open in a new window (same as for previous poster)
• And the solve for the OP where you right-click in a message and go to customise other actions etc etc does NOT work as described. I get a very ugly pop-up window that says 'This customisation not available for this account'

I really think I should go back to Win10... Win11 just gets worse and worse...

Answer 2

Same

Going back to previous outlook release after 15 minutes using the new one.

I really need this option to open email i'm reading in a new windows.

Answer 3

Hello Limor1,

Hope this finds you well.

Just a follow up on this thread. The new outlook now has a feature setting to automatically pop-out emails for new emails, replies and forwards. You can check this via Settings >Mail >Compose and reply >Pop out settings >Pop-out a new window. Example in screenshot below.

Thank you for your precious time and have a great day.

Best Regards,

Ashraf.

Good Morning!

My screen does not look like the one show with pop out option (it goes from font section to cut/copy). Please advise steps needed. Thank you so much!

Answer 4

I find this to be a major fault. I keep my email list open on a separate window and then have many emails open on another screen that I am working on. This change makes using Outlook nearly impossible from a task management point of view. It is enough of a problem to make me select another program for my emails. Hopefully Outlook solves it this week.

Answer 5

I know this is a user forum, but perhaps someone at Microsoft may read this. I have used Outlook now for over 20 years. In all this time, a message is opened in a new window. When done, I simply close that window and get back to the list. Now when I do that, it closes Outlook all together. This is annoying. This is not a help. This is not a feature. Please stop fixing things that aren't broken. Stirring the user interface periodically is usually just a inefficiency. If you have some type of supposed improvement, at least make it optional. Halting the use of classic Outlook is step backwards.