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OK, so Windows Live Mail - my previous email app - is eight years old (and written by MS as a "cut-down" version of Outlook Express, remember - it's important) and Outlook 2019 is shiny, new, and obviously much, much better.
So ... while you are editing a message, why don't the CTRL+LEFT, CTRL+RIGHT keys do anything? In Live mail, and Word, (and notepad, and Chrome, and Edge, and ....) they move "One word Left" and "One word Right" which is really handy when your typing error rate is as poor as mine currently is ...
And not to be outdone, Outlook has an "Open in Browser" option for emails it's mangled beyond redemption by eliminating images (not that that's a problem, but sometimes you need to say "sod the security" and load images to make sense of what some companies are saying). Many apps do this: and they fall into two classes:
1) Apps which use the system default browser to open the new page. 
2) Apps which always deliberately open Edge to view the new page. 
And while (2) is annoying (and only some MS apps do this, not all are as rude) Outlook falls into neither category. Why not? Because it forces open IE11 even if you didn't know it was installed on your PC. 
Come on MS, get your damn act together. Is it really necessary to roll your own text editor for every separate application? Do you really have to force us to use something your own company abandoned five years ago?
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modified 17-May-20 2:55am.
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It seems after all open source software not that bad...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...Because it forces open IE11 even if you didn't know it was installed on your PC.
Back in XP days ms "integrated" ie into the OS (started in NT but XP finished that work.)
and in ms: once something is in, it's in forever because everything uses it, even the OS itself.
- [only] bonus: dead easy for windows to run decades old apps, even those that 'belong' to older versions
- largest downside: easy for virii/trojans to exploit decades old loopholes
-- read any 'how did this virus work' and it's clear that's 95% of what they rely on)
all the baggage is in there and impossible to remove (because even the OS itself STILL relies on using it, i.e. anything that renders a text box or checkbox or...
outlook still uses the ie-11 rendering functionality for it's basic message display,
... sane people would suggest then bundle/dll that into the outlook app (until replaced),
not microsoft - many more other apps, hell the OS itself too still needs bits of it too.
- ever noticed that even though edge uses an entirely new caching method and storage, or you only uses say chrome, folders like "Temporary Internet Files," "Low," "content.ie5", "content.mso"... folders still keep appearing??
...often in in the most stupid places - they STILL don't even have proper data / app code / user files / temp file / cache / settings storage separation, heck they still got way too much of it (but not all by a long shot) in that registry, some in the <home>/local, some in the <home>/Roaming, some in the <home>/My Documents, some in the <home>, some STILL in C:\, some more in <windir>, more in <windir system32=""> .... settings, caches, data alike
.. oh, and also thus the real reason ms will never release their old OS sources - 90% of the old core is still very much in use.
only maybe 20% of windows 10 core is less than 10 years old - most of that being the gui DESIGN.
yeah sure, they have re-written/optimized parts: re-written it to do exactly the same thing with exactly the same intentional backdoors and loopholes (i.e. exposed should-be-private data because they themselves need to rely on that - then later [had to] add extra code to stop user apps (virii) exploiting purpose designed sillyness.
their entire "operating system" is still based, really solidly based at it's core on NT/XP.
From the outset their model was broken (no real separation of os / user space, no separation of os from hardware, hell, not even separation of os from the GUI), and they're still piling crap on top.
-- Sunday rant over --
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silly you.. you are supposed to be doing it in the Cloud..
Then, using your favorite browser (Edge of course), it all works fine. Even Ctrl-Right. At least it all works in Chromium.
I tested it carefully before going back to Thunderbird. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Interesting - Ctrl-Left Arrow and Ctrl-Right Arrow work fine in Outlook 365.
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Ctrl+← and Ctrl+→ work fine for me.
The IE11 thing is annoying, but sort-of understandable. In order to show the message with any embedded attachments, Outlook saves it as an MHT file. Firefox, Chrome, and Edge don't support opening MHT files. So the only option left is Internet Explorer.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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And now - just to be annoying, probably - they are working for me too ... 
And it's not US / UK keyboards, I selected both and it's all just working ...
(I have a US keyboard on my Surface, so Windows thinks I'm 'Merican and juggles keyboard layouts randomly on both desktop and Surface).
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Chrome opens MHT files - I just dropped a couple on it and they opened fine.
Same with Edge.
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Odd - it doesn't seem to be registered as a handler for that file type on my PC.
What happens if you right-click, open with, choose another, select Chrome, and tick the "always use" option? Does that make Outlook use Chrome for the web view?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Chrome doesn't appear on the apps list for MHT files at all - it's probably selectable via the "more apps" link, but then I could end up linked to a specific version of Chrome and I'd like to avoid that as well.
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It's annoying. I was able to browse to "chrome.exe" - which doesn't seem to be a specific version - using the "more apps" link, but it didn't seem to do anything. But about five minutes later, after I'd deleted the file, Chrome popped up and told me it couldn't find the file. 
Vivaldi[^] does register itself as a handler for MHT files, and double-clicking the file in Windows Explorer displayed it correctly. But when I used the web view link in Outlook, I just got the raw HTML.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Or you could use Pandas[^] or even tackier Inflatable dolls[^] 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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If everyone were to walk around using umbrellas, There would be automatic social distancing! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: even tackier Inflatable dolls[^]
As our token Welshman, II was quite surprised you link didn't point to something more like this.[^]
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Jörgen also proposed fencing last week - (mask, gloves, stabbing anyone in reach). I still prefer it.
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As you well know, the reason women win the arguments is because they have something we males want. I'll leave it to your imagination - which, on that subject, males are known to have quite a bit.
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And if you tell them that you really could care less ... girl, do they get grumpy!
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Back when I used to travel for my company my suitcase got around more than I did!
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know.
But if you listen, you may learn something new.
--Dalai Lama
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Mike Hankey wrote: Back when I used to travel for my company my suitcase got around more than I did!
I can relate to this...
Because of that I got used to always wear clothes for 2 days in the laptop backpack
I once had to survive over a week with those 2 day clothes... luckily enough the hotel wash-service was fast.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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