Outlook 365 PC Installed and sending blocks on partially completed emails

I am sure we will all have done this - started an email on our desktop Outlook app and for whatever reason, saved it as a draft pending completion. later you go back and add or edit and then try and send. Outlook says sorry, can't send it. It's been changed. Doesn't always happen so must be a particular sequence of events that triggers it. Which I have yet to figure out.

There must some useful reason for this, not that I can see what it is, but how can I avoid it? The nature of my work is such that it is not always easy or possible to complete the email at a sitting and a subsequent edit before sending is necessary.

How can I save a draft and then go back to edit it without encountering this unhelpful message.

Ian,

If you mean MSOffice Outlook then I suggest you search and, if necessary, re-post in TenForums' MSOffice section.

In the meantime, when you're ready to send it you could create a new email then copy everything across from your draft into the new one & send that when it's completed.


All the best,
Denis

Thanks Dennis. That is what I do, but it does seem to be an unnecessary step. And if you forget and press send the message pops up and the only options result in the edits not being saved and no way of retrieving them. It is a weird and annoying "feature"!
I'll follow up on your suggestion.

I assume you've run this already - Repair an Office application - MSSupport


Denis

I'm not convinced it's an error - just something I don't like! Having said that I had a look at the Repair but found the only Outlook I had available was the new version which I have checked out but would rather stick with he evil l I've got.

Sigurd said:

found the only Outlook I had available was the new version which I have checked out but would rather stick with he evil l I've got

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Sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about.
- You said you had Office 365 and hence Outlook 365.
- That is the subject of the link I gave you.


Denis

Sorry to confuse things. There seems to be a few Outlook versions! Outlook 365 is what came with the Office 365 package I bought originally. Outlook (New) is one that MS seems to be pushing. To confuse things further MS now seems to refer to the lot as Microsoft 365.
And if I am still confusing you it's because I'm not sleeping very well these days and I am confused!

Sigurd said:

here seems to be a few Outlook versions! Outlook 365 is what came with the Office 365 package I bought originally

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Since MSOffice Outlook 365 is what you have, that's what we can discuss.
MS might be pushing Outlook for Windows but, since MSOffice Outlook 365 is what you have, that's what we can discuss.
Repair an Office application - MSSupport is for MSOffice including MS365, MSOffice 365.
Repair an Office application - MSSupport is what you ought to try.

Sigurd said:

MS now seems to refer to the lot as Microsoft 365

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Almost.
The confusion they are causing is by using the name Outlook for so many things & by renaming MSOffice.
- They refer to MSOffice365 as MS365.
- They do not refer to Outlook for Windows as MS 365. Outlook for Windows is a component of Windows.


All the best,
Denis

According to my Microsoft account I have Microsoft Family, which includes

Not sure what that tells me about what version of Outlook I have!

I'll have a look at the new links you sent me - thanks Dennis.

I'd have to say @Try3 is right. According to the icon you show, you have MSOffice Outlook 365


This one is from the above link.

Will your icon strip of all your MS Office icons allow you to right click on them to see more info about them?

I meant to include these links earlier.

Find details for other versions of Office - MSSupport
It tells you how to check which sort of MSOffice you have.
I think it will confirm that you have MSOffice 365 [=MS365].

How to determine the license type of your Microsoft Office product - MSLearn
This can resolve confusion between, say, MSOffice 365 & MSOffice 2021.


Denis

Anak said:

I'd have to say @Try3 is right. According to the icon you show, you have MSOffice Outlook 365

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Isn't that what I more or less said in my thread title?

Thanks for the additional links

Yes that is in the thread title but some of the posts sounded unsure so I posted what I did.

Sigurd said:

Thanks for the additional links

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You're welcome.

Anak said:

Will your icon strip of all your MS Office icons allow you to right click on them to see more info about them?

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Have you tried right clicking on those icons? I doubt it would open but the way menu's are added one never knows unless it's tried.
If they do open it might tell you what it is in properties.

Just says Outlook.
Incidentally the Outlook that loads has an option top right


Will that be yet another name "New Outlook"!

Anything is possible.

Sigurd said:

Will that be yet another name "New Outlook"

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Yes, I've seen MS articles that use that term.

Denis

Uncheck When a reply modifies a message, don’t move the original:

Fix: “The operation cannot be performed because the message has changed” Outlook Error​

Sigurd said:

Isn't that what I more or less said in my thread title?

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Certainly what I read, so would seem obvious that you were pretty clear.
Outlook from the Office 365 suite.

And yes, Microsoft mail clients are known by various confusing names
Mail & Calendar
Outlook
New Outlook
Classic Outlook (Office Suite versions)
All by the way are separate versions of “Outlook” obviously less the odd one out called Mail & Calendar

Ian,

Have you run the Repair yet?


Denis

I get these all the time.
Happens when you have a separate new email window open and outlook open at the same time. Just delete the email it shows in your inbox. I think it's a virtual email that gets created by default...