"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
    2020-03-02T20:45:18+00:00

    Ditto, ditto, ditto.  They messedup something that was working perfectly.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-03-02T21:29:29+00:00

    Hello,

    We're sorry to hear you're not enjoying the new search functionality. In Outlook, please go to Help>Feedbackto send feedback to our engineering teams about this or anything else you don't like or even like.

    Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-03-06T17:54:08+00:00

    Yes!  Didn't know that enabling the "Coming Soon" button at the top right-hand corner of my Outlook screen would produce this change but it has definitely slowed my productivity.  IT showed me that I was able to turn this off, reboot and revert to the old positioning (THANK YOU, IT people that I LOVE!!!), but what a painful couple of weeks before I realized there was a way to bail out of this disaster!  If you are dealing with this, please explore your options to revert to the old version and save yourself some time and sanity.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-07T10:53:25+00:00

    hi Kimberly,

    the problem is that, unless feedback comes from us that this change is *terrible*, they will incorporate it in the future standard versions of Outlook, where you will not be able to switch it back.

    They have managed to destroy Outlook search, which has been working like a charm for years. Terrible and sad.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-03-11T17:47:03+00:00

    completely agree with all   HATE it.    hoping I can figure out how to revert as mentioned in a previous post.   I am my own IT department!!

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