Outlook's newest Sync option will make it easier to manage emails' statuses

Outlook for Windows and Outlook for Web will get a new button option that will allow users to initiate email synchronization, effectively ensuring that they can see the emails’ statuses.

The new capability is coming to Outlook in February 2024, according to the latest entry in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap. In November 2023, Microsoft revealed a list of upcoming features coming to Outlook in 2024, but email sync wasn’t on the list, back then.

However, this new feature will be quite useful to those users who want to make sure their emails end up right where they have to, and it will also allow them to verify if the recipient has received them.

A button option to initiate email sync is coming to the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web, this will allow users to ensure that their send and receive email experience is up-to-date. This functionality will be within the View tab of the Ribbon.

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With this feature, Microsoft intends to make Outlook the to-go emailing platform, and if you ask us, we say that the Redmond-based tech giant is doing a good at it.

Outlook has been getting a lot of incredibly useful features in the past year, including the popular Copilot, which helps users compose emails faster, and easier. Plus, Copilot can be trained to mimic the user’s style.

The best part is that Copilot is also coming to the classic version of Outlook, although its capabilities there will be limited.

Either way, as we’ve covered in a previous story, Outlook is bound to get multiple features in 2024, and many of them will only make the platform better and faster. We’re talking about integration with OneDrive, and Microsoft 365 apps, as well as offline support, or dictation, to name a few.

2024 sounds like a good year for Outlook. What do you think?