"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
    2020-06-02T12:56:19+00:00

    AGREEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!!!!!!  What a horrible change.   New location is SO counterproductive & counterintuitive.   Just wow.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-06T17:21:18+00:00

    THE WORST.

    Not only did I waste 30 minutes trying to figure out what happened after it disappeared, but I wasted another 60 minutes trying to figure out how to move it back.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-06T17:29:59+00:00

    .... and did you figure out a way?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-06-11T05:31:15+00:00

    This is one of the worst changes Microsoft has ever made, it slows you down so much, productivity is reduced.

    Either change it back, or give us the option of having the new or legacy format.

    It's probably fine for someone with one inbox and a handful of emails, but 20 inboxes and thousands of emails a day "searching" is now slow, due to having to move up to the top.

    YES, I know there is a keyboard shortcut Alt-Q but not helpful.

    Once again MS is making arbitrary changes, stop changing stuff that actually works and is productive.

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