Outlook search bar moved to the title!?

Anonymous
2019-08-23T14:07:46+00:00

Has anyone seen this before. Any advise on how to move back to default position?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-06-11T13:12:58+00:00

    thanks, rollback did the trick for me, not optimal but at least the search bar is back in place

    I downgraded to 12624.20466

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-11T13:31:23+00:00

    Why in the world would they move it so far away from where you need it?  Okay, they improved their ability to search.  Great!  However why did you move its location?  Just because?  Honestly, doesn't MS have a Users' Experience Team to tell them what the UI should look like?

    At the bare minimum, please give us the option to put the bar where it belongs.  I guarantee 90%+ will revert it back.

    DUMB!

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-11T14:45:04+00:00

    Exactly. Baffling how something so obvious got overlooked by the developers.  Hopefully, they'll get enough complaints and fix it.

    Some workarounds:

    1. If you press escape, the drop down goes away and you can then access the 'to', 'subject', 'has attachments' filters ribbon. 
    2. Other solution is to actually type in to:"persons name", subject:"subject name" but this is cumbersome.

    Best solution, as you stated is to move it to the right side or something of that nature where the drop down doesn't interfere with anything else.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-11T15:07:18+00:00

    Hi there it is possible to paste in the bar by pressing ctrl+V :)

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-06-11T15:41:22+00:00

    Many people, like me, were frustrated by the fact that the drop-down suggestions obscured the very tools we needed for searching.  I just discovered that if I hit Esc when it drops down, it goes away & I can use the tools.  Silly design, I know, but there's a quick and familiar  fix for it.

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