"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
    2020-11-20T14:39:15+00:00

    Dear Sir,

    I have given the feedback via help-> Feedback option . Kindly look into it to find better option for customer

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-11-11T12:54:08+00:00

    Totally agree with you. I am like mad right now. Searching for emails is a very important part of my life. What crept into MS's mind to damage something working perfectly. 

    The new search bar is not (1) not intuitive at all (2) no options to select fields to search into and +More button gets you nothing either. (3) I cannot search by attachment type.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-11-04T04:19:38+00:00

    Yes, Definetly they missed it up, disappointed to see it on the title bar.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-11-02T03:01:15+00:00

    I am not sure who the head designer is at Microsoft but they sure are not doing their job properly.

    Driving customers away to other softwares is not in the job description I would have thought.

    We need more flexibility and options to customize not less and stop trying to standardize to fit every piece of the software into the same box.

    The "standardization" could have been achieved and the original search option also left in place too perhaps? Why not?

    While I am ranting I think the ribbon is a terrible piece of work all round and should be rethought altogether.

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