You Can Finally Delete Contacts in Outlook for Android

This a few more key new features have arrived in July Update for Office 365 for Android is now available.

“As an Office 365 subscriber, you regularly get new and improved Office features,” a Microsoft support document notes, describing what’s new in the July update for Office 365 for Android, which increments Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook Mobile to build 16.0.10325.20043.

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Here’s what’s new.

Delete contacts in Outlook. You can finally delete contacts in Outlook Mobile, which I believe puts this app’s original embarrassing inability to manage contacts behind us.

Show word count as you scroll in Word. Now, the word count of the document you’re reading will always display as you scroll.

Do Not Disturb in Outlook. Now, you can schedule and manually toggle a Do Not Disturb mode in Outlook Mobile.

Landscape editing support in PowerPoint. You could always view presentations in landscape mode, but now you can edit them in this orientation too. (Kind of surprised this wasn’t an initial feature.)

Note that Office for iOS was also updated with its own July feature update.

 

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  • jblank46

    15 July, 2018 - 5:02 pm

    <p>This is great. Another sorely needed feature is the ability to delete emails from their notifications in Android. The only options I have are to archive or reply on my Pixel when reviewing Outlook notifications. Super annoying!</p>

  • jlmerrill

    15 July, 2018 - 11:01 pm

    <p>How about the option to load remote content or not.</p>

  • emanon2121

    16 July, 2018 - 9:07 am

    <p>Does this mean that the Outlook app has true two way sync on mobile? </p>

    • FalseAgent

      16 July, 2018 - 10:06 am

      <blockquote><a href="#292554"><em>In reply to emanon2121:</em></a></blockquote><p>Two way sync has been part of the app for a while now. It's just that you couldn't delete contacts. You could do everything else….just not delete contacts.</p>

      • emanon2121

        19 July, 2018 - 5:23 pm

        <blockquote><a href="#292561"><em>In reply to FalseAgent:</em></a></blockquote><p>So then it wasn't full two way sync. Not sure I trust going back to outlook app for contacts yet. I had too many important contacts not sync to devices. </p>

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