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by michens 1124 days ago
Annoying notifications are a thing for most of the MS stack. Outlook, Teams, Word. Recently I had to dig into some cryptic Registry options to disable some stupid balloon notifications in outlook that pop up every time I open the app. I don't care about your tips and your new interface, I just want to be able to search for a specific email and go back to work quickly.
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“New Outlook,” which forgot to remind me to be in a meeting once, and doesn’t support contact groups still because there’s no simple server-side notion of that.
> Annoying notifications are a thing for most of the MS stack.

This. The whole notification mechanism is just awful and not actually very useful. I disable all of it, from any application. I don't want notifications, period.

Care to share that one?
Yes, I mean - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/186354/o...

First comment about modifying - `HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\TeachingCallouts`