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

Seriously? This was a UI change to insider builds. Do you even read the posts or have experience with Office Insider? 

I'm not sure why it makes a difference. it frees up space as the previously unused title bar now can be used for searching. But this is what feedback is for.

Whatever you do, don't do the steps recommended by Darpan. This is not a bug to be fixed with copy-pasta.

Hi All

This is a "feature" of Insider build.

No problem with that. It frees up some space. Ctrl E is a shortcut worth remembering anyway (works across Office and Windows).

Problem

But the real problem is that when you start typing it opens a drop-down to show various options.

This drop-down overlaps the Search Tools ribbon - the most useful ones like Subject, From/To and so on.

Suggested Solution

So can it be moved towards the right side of the title bar?

That way, the drop-down will not Overlap search tools.

Thanks.

Thanks to Darpan for the help but yes do not use his method as I had to recreate all my views.

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!!!!

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!!!!

Note that this is not broken, nor a bug. It is a design change. You could request a change at UserVoice, or on the Help menu of Outlook, hit the Feedback icon.

Having a tech work on it though won't do anything. It is a design change and operating as intended.

I am not sure how you say it renders it useless. I use it every day and it works like the old search, but doesn't take up additional screen space since it is in the title bar vs taking up a row in the email list.