Outlook 2016 "open in new window" doesn't remember size

I have the same problem as everyone else here, and it is getting really annoying.

The excuse that the previous behaviour of remembering the window size and position was not a feature is BS. Like someone said, it has been like that for 20+ years. The whole operating system is called "Windows", and it's original idea was to make it easy to work in separate windows as opposed to one big DOS screen. Opening a new window that does not remember the previous size (or alternatively at least lets you decide what size and position it should be), and instead chooses a seemingly random size and position cannot possibly be a feature. And it certainly wasn't like that before 2018.

This is not what's causing the issue- I have this issue now and my taskbar is in the default position at the bottom of my screens.  I'm not as concerned with having to move my 'new window calendar/inboxes' that I open, but it is (more than) mildly infuriating to me that suddenly opening up new emails do not open in the same location as the last one I closed.  

Just this week, something has changed for me that started causing this.  Before, I could open up several emails, which would open in a cascading manner, and depending on which one I closed last, the next email I opened up would open in that same location (as the last one closed).  So I could move a single email I had opened to the top left corner of one screen, close it, then open another and it would open in the top left corner as well (or I could open several, as long as the last one I closed was in the top left corner).  As of the last two days, this behavior has changed such that the location is not being remembered and new emails will open up randomly in one of the cascading positions (say position 4 rather than position 1 which would be the top left corner).  This seems a small issue, but it is excruciatingly annoying as I need to view many areas of my screen at once, so the location is important.

What makes this even more annoying is that sometimes it works just fine- fine being how it has worked for as long as I can remember: opening up new windows in the same location as the last one I closed; but then suddenly Outlook will decide that it wants to open the next one halfway down and across the screen of the last one I had opened.  I don't understand this strange behavior at all and it's driving me nuts!

Hi all,

I think I found what's the problem so far. I like to have my taskbar in the "upper" part of the screen (pinned to the top). In this position Outlook does not remember the window position when "replying" or open a "new mail" through a new window.

This behaviour is not reproduced when the task bar is at the bottom in its normal position, I can open a new mail or replaying in a new window, remembering Outlook the last saved position and no cascading it.

Regards,

HI Andy

This is to thank you for doing the legwork with this pile.

I have had the same problem for probably a couple of months now Win10 and Office 365.

It  appeared overnight probably with an upgrade.

The problem is bearable.

What is not bearable is the process  that consumers have to suffer to get the writers to fix something that was never ever a problem in the past.

Good luck.

Maybe a fix will appear overnight with the blessing of the magic fairy.

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