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

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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 17,536 MVP Volunteer Moderator

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

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!

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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Hate navigation bar on left · Community (microsoft.com)

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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

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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2022-10-03T20:22:09+00:00

WASTE OF SPACE. I don't think anyone from customer service or programming is reading this thread at all. Changing layouts without providing options isn't cool. Not notifying us of changes is not cool. If I could change to apple I would.
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2022-10-03T22:46:47+00:00

WASTE OF SPACE. I don't think anyone from customer service or programming is reading this thread at all. Changing layouts without providing options isn't cool. Not notifying us of changes is not cool. If I could change to apple I would.

Please see the post by Claudia_K. on the previous page, Page 62.

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2022-10-04T12:00:12+00:00

Page 39 worked for me too and I employ all to go there and use it!! I have a work laptop that's super locked down and even I was able to do it!! Two pieces of advice that are vague in the original post (that maybe get clarified between pages 39-48??) are these:

To access registry editor, right-click the Windows icon in the bottom left and select: Run then type regedit

After drilling down to the Overrides folder, I didn't have anything listed, and so I had to right-click Overrides then select New then click String Value.

On the right side of the editor when the new file gets created under Name I then typed in his string value name. I left Type alone and then I double-clicked the new string value name I just created and typed false in the Value data box. I clicked Ok to the close the pop-up box and closed the editor and then when I re-opened Outlook....Viola!!!! That horrendous bar was back to the bottom and my precious screen real estate was restored!! :D

I've re-booted my laptop multiple times and everything has remained all good!! :) I personally felt that page 39 post wasn't very detailed and I made some intuitive guesses about what to do, but just to make his post more detailed. Good luck to everyone and enjoy your gloriously restored Outlook!

Thanks, LawyerYouKnow, for instructions on how to get rid of the new formatting, but your instructions made a leap I can't follow. You wrote, "After drilling down to the Overrides folder." I'd appreciate a little help with drilling down to the Overrides folder. I looked everywhere but did not find an Overrides folder. Would you please assist with the drilling down? Thanks.
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