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 17,526 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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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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2021-05-01T21:01:11+00:00

The reason this is bad is that it squeezes out the amount of space available in which to view folders. I haven't read this entire thread. Was a solution found? Or is it now possible to move the sidebar with the Microsoft apps away from the side, or just get rid of it entirely. There is no need for it anyway. If people want use of these apps they can make them desktop icons or access them through the Windows menu, and other ways as well. As it stands they are screen litter.
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2022-03-09T20:55:44+00:00

Hi all,

The issue you are seeing was caused by an accidental change from the service. Outlook features are controlled by the M365 service. The Outlook Team is actively working to correct this. The team confirmed that starting Outlook in Safe Mode and then restarting Outlook is a good mitigation to get back to a good state.

In the next few days, you will see that Coming Soon will re-appear and users can test the navigation bar on the left or keep it on the bottom for now. Longer term the Outlook Team is planning that the bar be moved to the left as a permanent feature. For reference, here it is on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365. There is not currently any plan to enable it back on the bottom. I have shared this forum thread with the team to see feedback. If you want to send more directed feedback, when Coming Soon re-appears click on it and at the very bottom there it asks "Does this new feature improve the product?" where you can send your feedback.

I wanted to make sure you knew the Outlook Team was aware of the issue and taking corrective action to prevent this happening again.
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2022-03-09T19:46:29+00:00
Guys, this feature drove me also crazy but I did what @AKSNC30 wrote BUT I had NOT the possibility to unclick the "Coming Soon" feature in the normal or safe Outlook.

What I did:

Closed MS Outlook

run with WIN+R and typed outlook.exe /safe

saw no feature for "Coming soon"

closed the "Safe Outlook"

reopened normal Outlook

and all was again in place (nav bar under e-mail folders). So I don't really know but Microsoft is doing some stuff without even the possibility to revert it back ... and we pay for this ...

Cheers,

Vik
Thanks for the tip Vik! It worked for me.
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