"New" Outlook search at the title bar - anyone else fed up?

Anonymous
2020-01-13T12:12:13+00:00

Hi everyone, and sorry for my strong language,

but I am really fed up with the new Outlook Search on the title bar, that appeared a couple of months ago in the Insider build.

Outlook Search used to work perfectly well for years, why did MS have to touch it really? Does anyone else feel so annoyed as well with the latest changes?

Just an example from today:

The new search bar, that has unfortunately been moved to the title bar, not only is it no functionally positioned - compared to how useful it was - but also does not work correctly:

  1. I am used to typing "to:" of "from:" and the name of the person whose mail I am looking for. No autocomplete for the names here
  2. I am used to typing "hasattachment:yes"; not only the autocomplete is gone (it used to come up after typing "has"), but no search results show up, even if there are emails sent to the particular person with attachments
  3. the same as #2 happens when I use the "has attachments" button of the ribbon. No results are shown, although there are messages with attachments for the particular person
  4. the new filter options (the ones you get when you click on the "Current folder" option at the title bar) are not consistent with what you have already typed in the search filter. E.g. I already have typed "hasattachment:yes" and I can still select "yes" in the attachment filter, so I end up for two "hasattachment:yes" options in the search bar, which of course doesn't work (not that it worked with one statement)

What a big scr*!@up of the Outlook search feature! Please revert to the previous one!

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-06-22T16:16:40+00:00

    Help!!! Please!!! Get the search back to where it was! I used it constantly.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-19T15:21:34+00:00

    The new search bar is a disaster.  Please put the old search back!

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-17T16:22:01+00:00

    Please hurry and change back to previous one.   Really dislike "NEW" Search at top and not helpful..  

    Please make sure you cast your vote on the link below, and please ask your colleagues and friends to vote too.

    For Microsoft, only numbers matters and this is the only way to make them revert it to how it was! Thanks.

    https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/322590-outlook-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/39046513-search-at-the-top-option

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-17T16:01:17+00:00

    Please hurry and change back to previous one.   Really dislike "NEW" Search at top and not helpful..

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-06-16T12:13:11+00:00

    I agree!  I hate this - it worked fine before.  Another example of changing something for the sake of changing it!

    The fact that SO many have expressed their specific loathing of this change and desire to go back to the old system and Microsoft still ignoring their users just astounds me.  Why have a product if it does not serve the population you are designed to market properly?

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