Tuesday April 1
 
11:56
 
Deleting Accounts In Mobile Outlook

Once again Microsoft strikes with unintuitive behaviour.

To delete an email account in Mobile Outlook, can you select the account and click ‘delete’? Is there a menu item or anything visible to tell give you a hint? No.

I finally found the answer in this thread, which starts: “Can’t Delete Outlook Account! Help! I’ve googled like crazy and searched these forums and cannot find a solution!”

The answer:

open outlook > menu > tools > options
highlight and hold the account you want to delete and select delete when the little popup opens.
it’s not going to show up you just have to tap+hold the account for the delete to popup..

Delete is the only option in the popup. Why didn’t they just make it a button instead?

In other “unintuitive behaviour”, I’m still trying to get my head around why the left soft button is “send” when you’re composing a message, and “delete” when you have an unsent message selected. Dangerous. I’ve also discovered by accident that there’s a way to send a message using some keyboard shortcut. No idea what I did.