How do I move email, calendar, people icons back to bottom of folder pane in Outlook?

Anonymous
2021-02-26T00:06:28+00:00

I have Office 365 and an update installed today. It updated Outlook and moved my email, calendar, and people icons from the bottom of the folder pane to a separate bar to the left of the folder pane. They also added icons for Office apps. I don't need icons to Office apps in Outlook--if I need to open one of those apps, I'll use the icons in my Windows taskbar. But that's a minor issue. My main issue is that I hate the icons in that bar on the left and want to move them back to the bottom of the folder pane, but I can't figure out how to do that. The rest of my team is also annoyed at the new position, but none of us can figure out how to move that bar. Online help doesn't cover this. I'm talking about the bar outlined in red in the first image below. Does anyone know how to move this back to the bottom of the folder pane? See the other image, which shows where the bar used to be.

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Diane Poremsky MVP 17,526 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2022-12-12T12:53:44+00:00

If you have all updates installed, you should have 2211 (or higher) -

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Go to File > Options > Advanced, and remove the check from the option to Show apps in Outlook. It's at the top - uncheck it to revert the bar to the bottom. Then restart Outlook!

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This is only a temporary solution though - so vote for and comment on tone or both of these suggestions - hopefully they will add a permanent solution for people who want to remove it.

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Do not change the overrides key if you have the check box in Options (above)

If you don't have the option, you can add a string value named Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Hub.HubBar to the key below and set it to False, then restart Outlook. (It's only a short-term fix, although right now, we don't know how short term.) 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentConfigs\ExternalFeatureOverrides\outlook

If you don't want to edit the registry, I have a ready to use reg file at the end of this article - 

https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/outlooks-left-navigation-bar/

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Anonymous
2022-11-10T13:48:56+00:00

Hi all,

The Outlook Team seeing your feedback will be adding a temporary option (snooze option) to put the navigation bar back at the bottom starting in Version 2211 which should release ETA ~November 28, 2022. You can find more in the blog article how this will work in the Nov 9 update, Outlook for Windows: New location for the Mail, Calendar, People, and other modules (microsoft.com).

Another common feedback is that the navigation bar on the left takes up too much precious reading pane space. In the same article Oct 7 update, the Outlook Team made it possible to minimize the folder list/folder pane to regain some of that lost space starting in Version 2210 that just released, Outlook for Windows: New location for the Mail, Calendar, People, and other modules (microsoft.com).

With all the feedback and concern I wanted to make sure you saw these changes.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-08-11T18:16:27+00:00

    Mr Peterson:

    47 pages? 47 PAGES??? My goodness! that's like...900 users! (assuming every post was from a separate user, which we know is not correct...but I'm a generous fellow.)

    Let's round up to 1000 (because, as I said I'm a generous person.) Let's say 1000 people are upset about this.

    There are approx 1billion users of Office.

    So, a little math...but before we start, I'll round up the 1,000 to 10,000 because...that's right...I'm generous.

    Now the math...10,000/1,000,000,000 comes to: 0.000001 or 0.0001% of users.

    So we can go with MS's decision which is trying to accommodate 1billion users...or we can accommodate 0.0001% of users who can't adapt to a minor change.

    There are other options. There is a product called Libre Office that is free and comes with most of the same functionality of MS Office, so you could go that route. And, if it's just the Outlook change that's bothersome, there are literally dozens and dozens and dozens of different email applications other than Outlook available.

    But this is the hill that you want to fight on? If this tiny little change has you this worked-up, I have bad news for you when you become an adult, get an adult job, and have to deal with actual change that matters in the world. As the other dinosaurs were told: Adapt or die.

    Good luck.

    Mr. Steve Cline

    the real question is HOW DO WE MOVE THAT MINI TOOL BAR BACK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN.

    I also spent too much time trying to find solution.

    Please answer the question.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-07-26T15:06:40+00:00

    Yes this feature will be permanent soon even most people don't want it.

    When the feature is already steady use the Reg Edit tip by LD Fix, page 39:
    This is the only way (at the moment) to change it back to be at the bottom again.

    Close Outlook, and then in the registry editor, navigate to the following registry key…

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentEcs\Overrides

    Locate the “Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Hub.HubBar” string value and set it to “false“. If there isn’t a “Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Hub.HubBar” string value in this registry key, create a new string value in this location called “Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Hub.HubBar” and set it to “false“.

    You can now open Outlook again and you should be able to enjoy your Navigation buttons back at the bottom of the screen again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-06-09T12:51:12+00:00

    I just opened my Outlook today to this issue. Thankfully, the turning on coming soon, restart, turn off, restart worked for me. I'm glad that fix was in this thread and didn't take my long to find or I would have spent my entire work day trying to figure it out.

    Note for Microsoft, if you ever introduce that feature fully, make sure it's an option, not a requirement because that bar is absolutely useless to most people and just takes up valuable space in the folder/reading panes.

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