"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
    2020-05-05T14:13:16+00:00

    Why is it I don't see a "Coming Soon" feature?  This new Search is driving me nuts

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-05T14:24:31+00:00

    Here you go:

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-05T14:58:57+00:00

    Agree.  Please revert to the previous functionality.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-05-05T16:43:45+00:00

    I am bot sure what happened but the Coming Soon box is now gone this morning and the Search Box is now up at top bar again.  What a disappointment.   Submitted another Feedback today.  I guess there was an update overnight

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-05-05T17:16:40+00:00

    AGREED!  This type of change should be an option to the user!  Hopefully if enough of us complain in the user feedback they will rectify this!  It needs to happen soon!  Especially during these times, we are all dependent on our PC's, and spending more time than normal on them, this is truly hindering our performance as well!  MICROSOFT CHANGE IT NOW!!!

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