Outlook search bar moved to the title!?

Hello eddablin,

Have a good day. Thanks for your post in forum.

Regarding your description, kindly try this following suggestion for resolving the issue and please feel free to contact us with updated result about the issue.

1.       Please try to open outlook in safe mode and check the result. For opening outlook in safe mode > press Windows +R key and Type outlook.exe /safe.

Note: There is a space between outlook.exe and /safe.

2.       Kindly try to reset the Outlook view. For resetting Outlook view > Press Windows R Key and type outlook.exe /cleanviews.

Note: There is a space between outlook.exe and /cleanviews.

3.       If the issue still persist, please try to repair an Office application online and check the result. For repairing office application https://support.office.com/en-us/article/repair-an-office-application-7821d4b6-7c1d-4205-aa0e-a6b40c5bb88b

If the issue still persist, could you please provide us detailed screenshot of your Office and Outlook desktop client version? For knowing Office and Outlook version, kindly see article https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-version-of-outlook-do-i-have-b3a9568c-edb5-42b9-9825-d48d82b2257c

Regards,

Darpan

This is not a bug, this is a "new feature" that the latest update gave.

But it's very annoying actually, when you try to search something it brings a dropdown that  hides the top results of the search.

What we want is:

"How Can We Restore The Search Bar, as it was before (and for future changes, ask the users) "

The location of this search bar renders it absolutely useless. One of our techs has been trying to remedy this for about an hour to no avail. 

Microsoft needs to fix this!!!!

This is truly the worst thing for my productivity. I use search constantly and miss the drop down. Not sure why mine just flipped on 6/11 - but an extremely irritating downgrade to outlook. Looks more like the completely lame search capabilities of iOS.

Consider yourself lucky - I have lived with this lame "new" Outlook search for a year already and still loathe every time I have to use it... tried many ways to get old one back including all known registry hacks - no success..

I agree 100% I can’t think of one update in the last two years to outlook that has “improved” anything about the program.

The sad part there really are no alernatives to outlook. 

I just cant imagine this being tested and people saying these riduclous changes are an improvment.

Thats exactly what happened to me. I was working outlook and it started acting up. I shut it down and restart and apparently i was forcibly sent another update.

I miss the old days of Windows Update and if you wanted downoaidng the patched and service packs when you decided to do it. This is just crazy.