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  • April 29, 2026
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Hello,

I switched to the new Outlook for a hot second and switched right back. But now when I am in a Smokeball matter and want to draft an email, it goes into a weird and very limited version of Outlook (maybe web version?) where i can’t even attach any files from the matter. How do i change this back?  

Best answer by Funkytown

I've been using the new Outlook for a few months. I can't say that I prefer it to the old Outlook, but it does offer some advantages such as Archie within your email. Also you can create a task directly from an email which is handy. 

 

When I first switched over to new Outlook, for a hot minute, I switched right back, probably for the same reasons you did. I then experienced the similar problem when creating an email from within smoke ball, it would pull up the new Outlook template for emails. It took a little while to load, required me to click a pencil in the top right of the email, when the pencil was very small and hard to see, and creates duplicate emails so that I can't tell if I've sent the email or if the duplicate can be deleted safely. 

 

But initially right after I switched back I didn't want that new email template and my recollection is that I was able to fix it by going into the default extensions and change it from new outlook to old Outlook. Default extensions is a system setting that you can access through Windows start button 

 

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taylora
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  • April 29, 2026

I did the same thing you did (hot minute/switched right back) and got the same result (weird and limited Outlook window).  I called support and there was some sort of glitch that apparently only support could fix, but they had it taken care of in a couple of minutes!


Funkytown
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  • May 1, 2026

I've been using the new Outlook for a few months. I can't say that I prefer it to the old Outlook, but it does offer some advantages such as Archie within your email. Also you can create a task directly from an email which is handy. 

 

When I first switched over to new Outlook, for a hot minute, I switched right back, probably for the same reasons you did. I then experienced the similar problem when creating an email from within smoke ball, it would pull up the new Outlook template for emails. It took a little while to load, required me to click a pencil in the top right of the email, when the pencil was very small and hard to see, and creates duplicate emails so that I can't tell if I've sent the email or if the duplicate can be deleted safely. 

 

But initially right after I switched back I didn't want that new email template and my recollection is that I was able to fix it by going into the default extensions and change it from new outlook to old Outlook. Default extensions is a system setting that you can access through Windows start button 

 


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  • May 1, 2026

We have reverted back to the old outlook, and finding when using Smokeball send or email functions it opens new outlook windows.  Can you share the steps to revert and fix ?