Outlook search bar moved to the title!?

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.

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!

@ SoftwareTeacher 

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Outlook search bar moved to the title!?

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Don

I am here just to tell how insatisfied with this I am.

Took me sometime just to see that it changed and much more time to discover that it can't go back to the original place.

One of the worst UI decisions!

How do we unsubscribe from this?  The unsubscribe option didn't work.  I still get emails every time someone responds and it is now useless.