Outlook search bar moved to the title!?

I use the search in doing my "work".

Locating it at the top forces me to take my focus away from my work every time I need to use it.

If changes are made,  they are traditionally done with the thought of enhancing the workflow, which in this case is the exact opposite.

PLEASE fix it Microsoft!

Hi Ed,

Sorry but saying that "it works for me" doesn't help here. The entire community seems to be pissed with the new location of the search and, to be honest, it's indeed a bad design decision to put it on top of everything and make the suggested results show ON TOP of the most used tools in the toolbar. I mean ... was this even tested??

Is it useless? No, it still do the search as it is expected to do, but it's sure annoying as hell to use because:

a) Location

b) comes on top of the "Refine" buttons - forcing users to use two clicks instead of one to select/apply the filter they want

c) there's no way to revert it to the old location or move it somewhere else ... which doesn't make any sense.

this is the single most stupid feature I've had in office since I started using it 20 years ago. ****.

Dumb location!!!!!!

Agree.

If Microsoft think, they need to change element locations in the UI, they should make it optional resp. changeable, at least.

Sadly, the search bar isn't the only thing that's moved to the title bar in Office.

I can't even drag & drop my Excel windows any more because the title bar is filled with junk.

I hate it.

Give us an option to spare ourselves from that ****, for christs sake.

KR