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As it stands, Quick Actions might be useful for some, but most Outlook customers will soon balk at the restrictions and lack of integration with Outlook’s existing features.A lot of changes were made to the Windows environment in Windows 10, most notably in the taskbar. Originally, we hoped that Quick Actions was just a small start towards a more useful Outlook feature. Another reason why alternative access options (keyboard shortcut etc.) are needed.Īctions are limited to just two from a very short list of options.

The Quick Action icons are so small, it’s easy to miss them and accidentally open the message instead. It’s hard to find with a single tiny icon as the only way to access it (no shortcut, no menu, ribbon or QAT option). Quick Actions aren’t very quick (especially if you want to move). Ideally the Quick Action could be linked to a Quick Step to expand ‘actions’ beyond two. There’s no link between these two ‘Quick’ Outlook features. It’s the ‘grown up’ version of Quick Actions. Quick Steps let you setup multiple actions to take on a message including reply, forwarding, move to specific folders etc. Quick Actions would seem to complement the long-standing Quick Steps features. Quick Actions shortcutĪ keyboard shortcut for the two Quick Actions would make it even quicker … but there isn’t one. Quick Action hasn’t been added to the command list so it’s not possible to customize a ribbon or Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) to include it. A customer could choose the same actions from wherever they are viewing the message. That would have been useful for consistency. Quick Action has no button on the reading pane or fully open message. The Quick Action setup is done there but you can’t make it happen for the current message. Quick Action doesn’t appear on the right-click menu as something to do. Selecting multiple messages then clicking one of the Quick Action icons will act on that for all the selected items. Instead use Quick Steps which lets you choose a move destination folder. Any ‘Move’ Quick Action gives a prompt to choose a folder … which is a lot less quick. Quick Actions doesn’t let you choose a single destination. At least with Quick Steps you can choose a specific destination folder.