Outlook for Mac features

With Outlook for Mac, we have reimagined the experience that you know and love, bringing even more power and simplicity to the product.

Outlook has many more features that are not in legacy Outlook for e.g., a fully customizable toolbar, swipe gestures, hover actions, theming, display density, search with natural language, meetings to be always Teams meeting, integrated My Day, advanced Microsoft Information Protection, text prediction, advanced dictation, retention and much more.

We are always actively listening for your feedback and making updates and changes to our feature roadmap based on what you tell us. If you have feedback on what we should consider adding to Outlook, please use the in-app Help > Give Feedback link.

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Account Support

Feature Description Available in Outlook, 16.58+, 16.58+
Close MSA accounts Green check icon Available
Create a new account Green check icon Available
Exchange (on-premises) Green check icon Available
Google Green check icon Available
iCloud Green check icon Available
IMAP Green check icon Available
LDAP Green check icon Available
Renamed to Directory Services
Office 365 Green check icon Available
OnPrem ADFS Calendar icon Upcoming
Outlook.com Green check icon Available
POP Green check icon Available
Yahoo Green check icon Available

App Framework

Feature Description Available in Outlook, 16.58+, 16.58+
About dialog Green check icon Available
Accessibility Green check icon Available
Address Book / Browsable GAL Question mark icon Under Investigation
Calendar module Green check icon Available
Collect Diagnostics Green check icon Available
Contact Support Green check icon Available
Contacts/People module Green check icon Available
Give Feedback Green check icon Available
Help (in-app) Green check icon Available
Mail module Green check icon Available
Multiple window support Green check icon Available
Notes module (in-app) Calendar icon Upcoming
Preferences Green check icon Available
Search Green check icon Available
Search highlighting Green check icon Available
Status bar Red check icon Not available
Tasks module (in-app) Calendar icon Upcoming
What's New Green check icon Available

Calendar

Feature Description Available in Outlook, 16.58+, 16.58+
Calendar outbox Red check icon Not available
Categorize events Green check icon Available
Delete events Green check icon Available
Dismiss and dismiss all reminders Green check icon Available
Duplicate existing event Calendar icon Upcoming
From this day forward editing support Calendar icon Upcoming
Hide attendee list Green check icon Available
Join online meeting button (Skype and Teams) Green check icon Available
Mark events as private Green check icon Available
Move and copy event to another folder/calendar (same account) Green check icon Available
My day view Green check icon Available
Online meetings (Skype and Teams) Green check icon Available
Open, export and save .ics attachment Green check icon Available
Propose new time Green check icon Available
Recurring events Green check icon Available
Request responses Green check icon Available
Required, optional and resource attendees Green check icon Available
RSVP (accept, tentative, decline) and forward Green check icon Available
RSVP events in grid Green check icon Available
Save and auto save event drafts Green check icon Available
Scheduling assistant Green check icon Available
Sensitivity labels with Microsoft Information Protection on events Green check icon Available
Set and update reminders Green check icon Available
Set start and end time zones Green check icon Available
Shared and delegated calendars
Note: Exchange (on-prem) support is coming soon. See Account Support section above or Coming Soon section of Outlook for Mac.		 Green check icon Available
Show as free, tentative, busy, out of office Green check icon Available
Show multiple time zones Green check icon Available
Snooze reminders Green check icon Available
Suggested times when creating event Green check icon Available
Teams enabled by default Green check icon Available
Weather in calendar Green check icon Available

Contacts

Feature Description Available in Outlook, 16.58+, 16.58+
Access non-default contact folders Green check icon Available
Auto complete Green check icon Available
Categorize contact Green check icon Available
Contact availability in people card Green check icon Available
Contact email Green check icon Available
Contact fields Green check icon Available
Contact notes Green check icon Available
Contact photo Green check icon Available
Delete contact Green check icon Available
DL expansion and detection Green check icon Available
Export contact as .vcf/vcard Green check icon Available
Flag contact Red check icon Not available
Mark as private Green check icon Available
Meeting with contact Green check icon Available
Move and copy contact to another folder (across account) Green check icon Available
Move and copy contact to another folder (same account) Green check icon Available
Open and save .vcf file Green check icon Available
Org chart in contact preview Calendar icon Upcoming
Org chart in people card Green check icon Available
People card Green check icon Available
Personal Distribution List support Calendar icon Upcoming
Private Distribution Lists Calendar icon Upcoming
Resolve name and email address Green check icon Available
See contacts in shared mailbox Green check icon Available
Sort by display name, first name, last name, ascending or descending Green check icon Available

Extensibility

Feature Description Available in Outlook, 16.58+, 16.58+
Admin-managed Add-ins Green check icon Available
Get Add-ins from App Source (Office store) Green check icon Available
Injection-based plug-in support Red check icon Not available

Folders

Feature Description Available in Outlook, 16.58+, 16.58+
Access On My Computer (local) folders Green check icon Available
Access Public Folders Red check icon Not available
We recommend Groups

Mail

Feature Description Available in Outlook, 16.58+, 16.58+
@mentions in mail Green check icon Available
Add attachments to drafts Green check icon Available
Archive mail Green check icon Available
Block sender Green check icon Available
cc/bcc support in mail Green check icon Available
Check Accessibility Green check icon Available
Compose in plaintext Red check icon Not available
Compose with different text encoding Red check icon Not available
Create event from mail Green check icon Available
Create, rename, and delete folders Green check icon Available
Do Not Forward mail Green check icon Available
Encrypt mail Green check icon Available
External sender tag on mail Green check icon Available
Favorite (mailbox, contacts and groups) Green check icon Available
Favorite Shared mailbox Green check icon Available
Filter by unread, flagged, mentions, attachments, To me and category Green check icon Available
Find and replace Green check icon Available
Flag for follow up and Reminders Green check icon Available
Flag mail Green check icon Available
Note: In legacy Outlook, outgoing mails that're flagged don't retain the flag.
Focused inbox Green check icon Available
Forward mail as attachment Green check icon Available
Group by flag, category Green check icon Available
Insert Online links Green check icon Available
Mark as complete Calendar icon Upcoming
Mark mail as junk Green check icon Available
Mark mail as phishing Green check icon Available
Mark mail as read or unread Green check icon Available
Move message to another folder (same account) Green check icon Available
New mail Green check icon Available
Online archive Green check icon Available
Open and save .eml file Green check icon Available
Outbox folder Green check icon Available
Pop out to separate window Green check icon Available
Preview / open / save attachments Green check icon Available
Print mail Green check icon Available
Remove attachment on received email Red check icon Not available
Reorder Favorites Green check icon Available
Reply, reply all, forward mail Green check icon Available
Request delivery and read receipts Green check icon Available with Microsoft 365
Resend mail Green check icon Available
Rich table formatting options Red check icon Not available
S/MIME
Note: With Legacy Outlook for Mac, distribution lists need to be expanded or an error occurs: "Missing or invalid encryption certificates"		 Green check icon Available
Safe links Green check icon Available
Save and auto save mail draft Green check icon Available
Send later Green check icon Available with Microsoft 365
Set and manage categories Green check icon Available
Set language in compose Green check icon Available
Set Message Classification and Labels with Microsoft Information Protection on mail Green check icon Available
Set priority on mail Green check icon Available
Shared and delegate mailbox
Note: Exchange (on-prem) support is coming soon. See 'Account Support' section above or Coming Soon section of Outlook for Mac.		 Green check icon Available
Show folder size Question mark icon Under Investigation
Show message preview in message list Green check icon Available
Show new message notification Green check icon Available
Signatures Green check icon Available
Sort by from, date, subject, size, importance, oldest or newest, ascending or descending Green check icon Available
Sort by size Green check icon Available
Spelling and Grammar Green check icon Available
Swipe actions Green check icon Available
Switch text formatting to plain text Calendar icon Upcoming
Total item count Green check icon Available
Unified Inbox Green check icon Available
Unread item count per folder Green check icon Available
View source of received mail Green check icon Available
Voice dictation Green check icon Available
Voting buttons Green check icon Available
Zoom mail Green check icon Available

Preferences

Feature Description Available in Outlook, 16.58+, 16.58+
Accounts Green check icon Available
Add Online Meetings to all events Green check icon Available
AutoCorrect Green check icon Available
Categories Green check icon Available
Composing Green check icon Available
Fonts Green check icon Available
General Green check icon Available
Junk Mail Green check icon Available (under customizable toolbar)
Notifications and Sounds Green check icon Available
Privacy Green check icon Available
Reading Green check icon Available
Rules Green check icon Available (under tools)
Search Green check icon Available
Signatures Green check icon Available
Spelling and Grammar Green check icon Available
Feature Description Available in Outlook, 16.58+, 16.58+
Contacts search Green check icon Available
Expanded (advanced) mail search Green check icon Available
Fully delegated and shared calendar search Green check icon Available
Offline search Green check icon Available
Online Archive search Green check icon Available
Partial delegated search Green check icon Available
Saved searched (smart folders) Green check icon Available
Search across all items Question mark icon Under Investigation
Search by attachment size Green check icon Available
Search Contact suggestions Green check icon Available
Search Feedback Red check icon Not available
Search in calendar Green check icon Available
Search in notes (in-app) Question mark icon Under Investigation
Search in tasks (in-app) Question mark icon Under Investigation
Search mail in current mailbox online Green check icon Available
Search mail in folder online Green check icon Available
Search mail in subfolder online Green check icon Available
Search offline Green check icon Available
Search Text suggestions Green check icon Available
Unified inbox search Green check icon Available

Sync

Feature Description Available in Outlook, 16.58+, 16.58+
Synchronize now Green check icon Available
View sync errors Red check icon Not available
View sync status Red check icon Not available