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: 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 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 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 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!

I agree. This new feature is so annoying, I hate it and our staff hate it. I hope they can put it back to the way it was previously.

Hopefully it will be as simple for you as it was for me--just turning off that "Coming Soon" feature in the top, right-hand corner of my Outlook screen did the trick for me! Update: After this post the IT Dept of my work sent out an all-employee e-mail showing them how to disable this feature and revert to the previous view/function. Apparently I was not the only one who was struggling with this. Hello Kimberley, Is there any chance your IT department or you could share with us how to disable this feature and revert to the previous view/function? PLEASE :-) Regards Joe

Hopefully it will be as simple for you as it was for me--just turning off that "Coming Soon" feature in the top, right-hand corner of my Outlook screen did the trick for me! Update: After this post the IT Dept of my work sent out an all-employee e-mail showing them how to disable this feature and revert to the previous view/function. Apparently I was not the only one who was struggling with this. Hello Kimberley, Is there any chance your IT department or you could share with us how to disable this feature and revert to the previous view/function? PLEASE :-) Regards Joe Hi, Joe~ Glad you and your teammates were able to get back to the familiar (and functional!). I truly could not find anything useful about this new feature so I was more than happy to see the "Coming Soon" "Leaving Sooner"! :-) ~ Kimberly

I am having the same issue. I don't know why without even an updated that my search bar moved. Took me an hour to figure out what happened. Tried to figure out how to move it, impossible. This makes no sense. Visually you are now diverting your attention away from the area and up, you also have to move outside the general area your mouse is already in.... Finally, it just does not make sense to put it there, is this where I go to do other things for my email, no. It is where I go to close outlook... I am so frustrated that I am not given a choice to move this stupid thing. I am busy and don't have the time to be at the whim of some programmer's great idea of design and functionality. This is not the first time they've moved something that does not make sense. Horrible choice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would like to divert this back. Is there even a way.

Unfortunately this is the way the new and improved Outlook Search is going to be. Note that the 'Coming Soon' means just that.....this 'feature' will be coming soon as part of the application. So just turning off that option will not help in the future. Here's a post from earlier in this thread if you REALLY want to affect this problem. "We're sorry to hear you're not enjoying the new search functionality. In Outlook, please go to Help>Feedback to send feedback to our engineering teams about this or anything else you don't like or even like."

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

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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:

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
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
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
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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2020-05-05T04:50:44+00:00

I agree. This new feature is so annoying, I hate it and our staff hate it.

I hope they can put it back to the way it was previously.
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2020-05-05T11:05:23+00:00

Hopefully it will be as simple for you as it was for me--just turning off that "Coming Soon" feature in the top, right-hand corner of my Outlook screen did the trick for me! Update: After this post the IT Dept of my work sent out an all-employee e-mail showing them how to disable this feature and revert to the previous view/function. Apparently I was not the only one who was struggling with this.

Hello Kimberley,

Is there any chance your IT department or you could share with us how to disable this feature and revert to the previous view/function? PLEASE :-)

Regards

Joe
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2020-05-05T12:30:37+00:00

Hopefully it will be as simple for you as it was for me--just turning off that "Coming Soon" feature in the top, right-hand corner of my Outlook screen did the trick for me! Update: After this post the IT Dept of my work sent out an all-employee e-mail showing them how to disable this feature and revert to the previous view/function. Apparently I was not the only one who was struggling with this.

Hello Kimberley,

Is there any chance your IT department or you could share with us how to disable this feature and revert to the previous view/function? PLEASE :-)

Regards

Joe

Hi, Joe~

Glad you and your teammates were able to get back to the familiar (and functional!). I truly could not find anything useful about this new feature so I was more than happy to see the "Coming Soon" "Leaving Sooner"! :-)

~ Kimberly
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2020-05-05T12:46:35+00:00

I am having the same issue. I don't know why without even an updated that my search bar moved. Took me an hour to figure out what happened. Tried to figure out how to move it, impossible. This makes no sense. Visually you are now diverting your attention away from the area and up, you also have to move outside the general area your mouse is already in.... Finally, it just does not make sense to put it there, is this where I go to do other things for my email, no. It is where I go to close outlook... I am so frustrated that I am not given a choice to move this stupid thing. I am busy and don't have the time to be at the whim of some programmer's great idea of design and functionality. This is not the first time they've moved something that does not make sense. Horrible choice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would like to divert this back. Is there even a way.
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2020-05-05T13:53:21+00:00

Unfortunately this is the way the new and improved Outlook Search is going to be. Note that the 'Coming Soon' means just that.....this 'feature' will be coming soon as part of the application. So just turning off that option will not help in the future. Here's a post from earlier in this thread if you REALLY want to affect this problem.

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