New harmon.ie Get to Know New harmon.ie
New harmon.ie allows you to interact with all your SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive locations from a single interface within Outlook, or a desktop app. This guide introduces the interface and explains how to use its features effectively.
New harmon.ie offers two main views:
- HOME: Shows a tree view of your SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive locations, favorites, recent, and shared with me.
- CONTENT: Displays a list view of a group (such as Recent or Shared with me) or a single Microsoft 365 location, including all sub-locations, files, and metadata.
Comparison of the harmon.ie views
| Feature | Home view | Content view |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Browse and manage all SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive locations in one tree view | Explore a specific location in detail, including files and metadata |
| Layout | Tree view with expandable/collapsible locations | Flat list of sub-locations, files, and metadata within one selected location |
| Navigation | Quick jump between multiple Microsoft 365 locations | Focused navigation within a single location |
| Metadata Display | Limited metadata (hover-based) | Full file metadata is visible |
| Actions | Hover over locations or files for actions like share, favorite, save email | Full action menu available for each item |
| Search | Search across all Microsoft 365 files | Search within the current location only |
| Best For | High-level browsing and switching between locations | Detailed work within a specific SharePoint, Teams, or OneDrive folder |
Each view lets you: save emails and attachments, upload files to SharePoint, Teams, or OneDrive; view and manage files; share locations and files; search; and more.
How to switch between the Home and Content harmon.ie views
Double-click a location in the Home view to open it in the Content view.
Click the Home icon (
) in the Content view to open the Home view.
Home view – Groups
harmon.ie displays all your Microsoft 365 locations in a single tree view that includes:
- Favorites – locations and files that you use frequently can be saved as favorites for easy navigation.
- Recent – recent locations you uploaded files to using harmon.ie and recent files you worked on with Microsoft 365 apps.
- Shared with me – files and folders that your colleagues shared with you. You can include email attachments sent to you in this view.
- Teams – Teams locations and recent files, as well as files shared in Chats and meetings.
- SharePoint – your SharePoint locations and recent files. You may include SharePoint hubs and team sites here.
- OneDrive – all locations and recent files you saved to your OneDrive.
Content view
Double-click a SharePoint, Teams, or OneDrive location or a harmon.ie group (such as Recent, Shared with me) to view its contents in a list view. The Content view includes all the sub-locations and all files.
Feature comparison: Home vs. Content view
| Feature | Home view | Content view |
|---|---|---|
| Browse Microsoft 365 locations | Yes – Tree view of SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Favorites, Recent. Expand ( ) to view all sub-locations and 5 recent files, or collapse ( ) |
No – Focuses on a single location, including all sub-locations and all files |
| Open folder or location | Yes – Double-click to open the selected location, or use More actions > Open ( ) |
Yes – Double-click to open the selected location, or use More actions > Open () |
| Open Microsoft 365 file | Yes – Double-click to open file, or use More actions > Open in browser app ( ) or Open in desktop app |
Yes – Double-click to open file, or use More actions > Open in browser app () or Open in desktop app |
| View full metadata | Limited – Available on hover | Yes – Displayed in full list view. Tip: Pop out harmon.ie for a wider display that shows more metadata columns without scrolling |
| Save email or attachments | Yes – Hover and click Save email ( ) or drag and drop |
Yes – Save email () or drag and drop |
| Upload files from desktop | Yes – Drag and drop onto location or use More actions > Upload files ( ) |
Yes – Drag and drop or use New ( ) > Upload files () |
| Create new folders/files/links | Yes – Via More actions on hover > New ( ) > Choose item type |
Yes – New () > Choose item type |
| Search for files | Yes – Global Microsoft 365 search | Yes – Search within current location |
| Share files or folders | Yes – Hover over item > Share ( ) > Copy link (Ctrl+L) ( ), Email with link (Ctrl+E) ( ), or Share to Teams (Ctrl+T) ( ) |
Yes – More actions > Share () > Copy link (Ctrl+L) (), Email with link (Ctrl+E) (), or Share to Teams (Ctrl+T) () |
| Mark/unmark as favorite | Yes – Hover and click Favorite ( ) or Unfavorite ( ) location or file from favorites |
Yes – More actions > Favorite () or Unfavorite () location, or hover over file and click favorite or unfavorite icon |
| Rename / delete | Yes – Via More actions > Rename ( ) / Delete ( ) on hover |
Yes – Via More actions > Rename () / Delete () on hover |
| Edit details | Yes – Via More actions > Edit details ( ) on hover |
Yes – Via More actions > Edit details () on hover |
| Select SharePoint or Email view | No | Yes – View selector ( ) |
| Sort files | No | Yes – Click column header |
| Open in browser / Teams | Yes – From More actions > Open in browser () / Open in Teams ( ) on hover |
Yes – From More actions > Open in browser () / Open in Teams () menu |
| Pin/unpin sidebar (Outlook add-in only) | Yes – Pin ( ) / unpin ( ) |
Yes – Pin () / unpin () |
| New content indicator | Yes – New content or new actions are indicated with a blue dot ( ) |
Yes – New content or new actions are indicated with a blue dot () |
| Open settings, manage Teams and SharePoint sites | Yes – Settings ( ) |
No |
| Return to All Locations | Not applicable | Yes – Click Home icon () |
| Refresh | Yes – Refresh all ( ) reloads content of expanded locations from Microsoft 365, and also syncs changes from pop-out to sidebar and vice versa |
Yes – Refresh () from More actions reloads content from Microsoft 365 |
| Pop-out harmon.ie | Yes – Pop out ( ) – available in Outlook for Windows (new) and Outlook on the Web |
No |
Popped-out harmon.ie
You can pop-out or detach New harmon.ie from Outlook for Windows (new) or Outlook on the Web. This allows you to browse and explore Microsoft 365 locations with all file metadata in one expanded view.
You can also drag and drop emails and attachments to the popped-out harmon.ie.
How to pop-out New harmon.ie
- Open New harmon.ie in Outlook for Windows (new) or Outlook on the Web.
- Click the pop-out icon (
) in the Home view.
Changes made in one harmon.ie window (Outlook sidebar or pop-out) don’t automatically sync to the other.
To sync changes between harmon.ie windows, click the Refresh all icon ().
Shortcuts in New harmon.ie:
You can use the following shortcuts to perform common tasks in the sidebar:
| Windows shortcut | Mac shortcut | Command | How to use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ctrl+L | Ctrl+L | Copy link | Click one or more locations and/or files to select them, then click Ctrl+L to copy the links to the selected items to the clipboard |
| Ctrl+E | Email with link | Click a Microsoft 365 location or file to select it, then click Ctrl+E to create a new email message with a link to this item. | |
| Ctrl+K | Ctrl+K | Search this location | Click Ctrl+K to start searching in the current location or in Home view. |
| Alt+A | Add as attachment | Click Alt+A when you are writing an email to add the selected file(s) to your email message as attachments. | |
| Ctrl+T | Ctrl+T | Share to Teams | Click Ctrl+T to share the selected file(s) in Teams. (This shortcut doesn’t work in Outlook on the Web.) |
| Delete | Delete one or more folders and files | Click Delete to delete the selected file(s) and/or location(s). |
How to send feedback to harmon.ie?
- Open harmon.ie’s Home view.
- Click the More actions icon next to All Locations (), then click Send feedback ().
- Select an icon that best matches how you feel about New harmon.ie.
- Optionally, type in your comments and let us know if we can contact you about your feedback – what you like, any feature you are missing, or an error you encountered.
- Click Send feedback.
), then click Send feedback (
).We love getting feedback from our users!
