Outlook search bar moved to the title!?

I have been trying to fix this for weeks .  Looks like MS did this on purpose and there is no way to move it back.

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.

Moving it to the Right side would help a lot. Now that we are all working from home, the search bar in the title is mostly covered by the RDP bar.

My feedback - The new layout of Outlook is not as good as the old layout.

I tried it all out on an old laptop for a couple of weeks to make sure. It was a bit of a leap of faith but I'm glad I've done it and am now free from the shackles of Micro$oft.

The first thing I noticed was that a 7 year old budget Asus laptop was out-performing a relatively new high-spec Dell, by a long way. You press the power button and it's there, instantly. Click Thunderbird and same again. I've written several emails in the time it takes the other PC to boot up.

If your mail server supports standard connections such as IMAP/Pop etc, it should work fine. I don't know if it connects to an Outlook Exchange account, but I've got my own web/mail servers so I prefer using IMAP. Gmail and Hotmail also work fine on it.

Linux Mint comes with LibreOffice pre-installed. And that suits my purposes just fine. I may give Apache Office a try sometime though.

My only concern was that I use Paint Shop Pro, and Gimp always looked dreadful to me. But the latest version, 2.10 works really well. It's just got a bit of a learning curve. And I'm actually starting to prefer it.

I was also concerned about some other apps like Reaper (music studio software) but the Linux version of that works just fine. And all the device drivers work on my setup except for my fingerprint scanner, which I'm told they are working on and should be available soon.

Linux Mint 20 has just been released and it's a big improvement. Definitely recommended for people looking to convert (or should I say upgrade) from Windows.

OneDrive and Google Drive are a bit clunky, but there are apps that deal with it. Dropbox works perfectly. And so do things like Zoom.

I've had no issues with it whatsoever. Just a few Google searches looking for a few drivers and a bit of guidance on how to do some installs. It does help if you know a bit of Linux command line stuff, which I do because all my web servers are Linux based, but it's not absolutely necessary. 

And nearly everything is free or donations-based.

I'm happy! :)

Over here also looking into Thunderbird. Not sure yet if that will connect with the mailserver.

Also looking at Apache OpenOffice. My brother uses that and it works really great and is free. And it's use is logical, not the confusing , user unfriendly mess Outlook (and Office 365 in general) has become :(

I've solved it!

I uninstalled Windows from all my devices and installed Linux Mint. Everything now works perfectly, much quicker and more reliably than previously, and I no longer get stupid updates lasting hours. And the search in Thunderbird works exactly how Outlook should.

All the bloatware has gone. And so has that stupid irritating Cortana thing! I've swapped my Microsoft 365 subscription for a 2tb Dropbox account and everything in my life is now rosy.

Bye Microsoft!