Applies To
Outlook for Microsoft 365 Outlook 2024 Outlook 2021 Outlook 2019 Outlook 2016

Something went wrong in Outlook, and it can't create the new item that you want. To work around this problem, close Outlook and then re-open it, and then create the new item again.

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