Allow Outlook add-in commands to be used on selections of multiple items

Currently an add-in command will disable if multiple Outlook mail items are selected. It would be really useful to be able run certain commands by iterating over a collection of the selected items.

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Matthew Dendura shared this idea · Dec 14, 2015 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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AdminOffice Developer Team (Microsoft Office Extensibility, Microsoft) responded · Oct 15, 2016

Thanks for your feedback! This is in our backlog but lower priority than a few other features. We’ll keep you posted with status updates.

Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team

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Anonymous commented · January 8, 2021 8:07 AM · Flag as inappropriate

please resolve this issue... we need to work smarter not harder

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Alexander Hagemann commented · December 16, 2020 12:52 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Hi Office Dev Team,

is this is still "In Backlog"? When can we expect an update for this?

Thank you!

Regards,

Alex

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Bradlee Duncan commented · July 27, 2020 9:13 AM · Flag as inappropriate

It was marked as "In Backlog" in 2015 and we still haven't seen movement on it. How can you expect developers to pick up development on the Office Add-in Platform without these sorts of seemingly basic functions? Please implement this asap!

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Anonymous commented · May 24, 2019 6:10 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Yes! This would be very nice!

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Anonymous commented · May 23, 2019 11:29 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I got tickets about selecting mail in the webaccess. Our packet processes mails. Seems that workers really want to do this.

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Pierre Bertrand commented · March 21, 2019 2:38 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Very interesting feature!

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charles commented · March 19, 2019 4:21 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Is there any new information about this feature ? Is there maybe a release date ?

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Tyas commented · November 20, 2018 6:24 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Is there a known date for implementation. This function would be much appreciated.

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Lars commented · June 3, 2018 6:34 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Is there any news on this feature? It would be such a productivity boost to be able to handle multiple items at once in an add-in.

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Anonymous commented · April 3, 2018 12:16 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Working for a client now, they would love this feature to replace an old style client add-in. Would be nice to have an indication on when and if this functionality will be added.

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Anonymous commented · March 13, 2018 1:30 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Had there been any progress on this request?

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Anonymous commented · January 24, 2018 7:28 AM · Flag as inappropriate

What is the status on this suggestion?

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Murray Sinclair commented · November 29, 2017 4:42 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Please make this a high priority, thank you.

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Anonymous commented · October 3, 2016 9:05 AM · Flag as inappropriate

it will be really good for many business requirements

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Kent Carlisle commented · April 26, 2016 2:23 PM · Flag as inappropriate

A definite need for add-ins we wish to develop

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Benoit Patra commented · January 28, 2016 1:39 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Yes definitely a good idea!

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Peter Cooney commented · December 14, 2015 4:43 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Great suggestion with many potential uses.

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