Why is “Add a location” still mostly useless in Outlook for macOS?
When setting up a meeting or appointment that is external to your organisation it is important to be able to include the details of the location. However, despite the functionality appearing to be in Outlook for macOS, almost since its initial release, the functionality of this part of the software is all but totally useless. Entering in the name of a venue or a contact’s name and it will, almost without fail, fail to find the venue or contact. We should be able to enter in the name of a venue or any address and if it can’t find it then we should be able to search for it in any one of the multiple supported mapping services. And, as for Outlook contacts not being found, that is just embarrassing.
This functionality took years for Microsoft to get working in the Windows version of Outlook (I haven’t yet tested it to see how much they’ve broken it in the “New Look” version on Windows). So, why is it still too difficult for them to add such a simple thing?
There aren’t many fundamental parts of information that make up a meeting or appointment and this is definitely one of them. THIS SHOULD NOT BE SO HARD!
When setting up a meeting or appointment that is external to your organisation it is important to be able to include the details of the location. However, despite the functionality appearing to be in Outlook for macOS, almost since its initial release, the functionality of this part of the software is all but totally useless. Entering in the name of a venue or a contact’s name and it will, almost without fail, fail to find the venue or contact. We should be able to enter in the name of a venue or any address and if it can’t find it then we should be able to search for it in any one of the multiple supported mapping services. And, as for Outlook contacts not being found, that is just embarrassing. This functionality took years for Microsoft to get working in the Windows version of Outlook (I haven’t yet tested it to see how much they’ve broken it in the “New Look” version on Windows). So, why is it still too difficult for them to add such a simple thing? There aren’t many fundamental parts of information that make up a meeting or appointment and this is definitely one of them. THIS SHOULD NOT BE SO HARD! Read More