Outlook search bar moved to the title!?

This is definitely to worst UI decision ever made! I cannot believe that this is actually approved by Microsoft. Microsoft should at least give the user an option to revert it back to the original location.

Thank you! This sort of works, but the buttons just type stuff for you. So unfortunately doesn't fix the basic awfullness of the new search.

My solution: Use Advanced Find.

CTRL-SHIFT-F to activate

Or add a custom group to the ribbon , and then in the Choose Command dropdown pick "All Commands" and then add "Advanced Find" to the custom group. You can move the custom group anywhere you want on the ribbon.

Or you can add the Advanced Find as a quick access shortcut if you prefer that.

So typical customer oriented MicroSoft, the issue is still there 2 years later. Why the ^*&*)^ do they not care what we users write here and solve these issues???

So total lack of respect of the user from Microsoft, almost as bad as Teams showing you absent when you are working on excel...

I came up with another way, slightly less ugly. You can add a bunch of nonsense command buttons to the search ribbon itself in order to push the useful search buttons to the right, thus avoiding the dropdown hide.

1. Right-click the ribbon, choose Customize the Ribbon.
2. On the dropdown to the right where it says "Customize the Classic Ribbon", choose Tool Tabs.
3. Click on Search Tools in the list and click New Group.
4. Move the group up using the arrow buttons on the right so that it's on the Search Tools tab but before the Scope, Refine etc. 
5. Click on the New Group and add about 10 commands from the list on the left (doesn't matter which ones)
6. Click OK. Now the useful search commands should be out of the way of the dropdown menu when making a search.