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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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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Anonymous

2022-03-24T11:52:45+00:00

The top response doesn't provide an actual solution. There is a simply registry edit that moves the hubbar back to the bottom.

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“.

Thanks to the instructions found at https://logiccloudit.com/knowledge-base/outlook-navigation-pane-suddenly-moved-to-the-left-side/ for this solution.

This works!!! Thank you
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Anonymous

2022-03-10T17:29:44+00:00

Interim solution? I updated office (File>Office Account>Update Options>Update Now); started Outlook in safe mode (outlook.exe /safe); closed Outlook; reopened Outlook in normal mode, and the launch bar had reverted to its prior (horizontal) position.

Hope this helps, and yes, I am at a loss to explain it.
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Anonymous

2022-03-09T08:34:44+00:00
ok so i found this - might help those who have lost the "coming soon" button to reinstall it, deselect it and revert back to original icons at the bottom

GraniteStateColin

Replied on February 23, 2019

Wow, after spending hours on this, including several with multiple support people at MS, where they had me run a Quick Repair, Online Repair, creating a whole new Profile, completely uninstalling Office 365 and doing a full redownload and reinstall, deleting the Outlook folder in AppData, none of which worked, I figured out the fairly simple solution on my own:
1. Make sure Outlook is closed
2. Start the existing installed version of Outlook in Safe Mode, via Run (Windows + R), then type: outlook.exe /safe
3. The option to turn "Coming Soon" back off is available again in the upper right
4. Toggle Coming Soon back to off.
5. Close and restart Outlook normally (not in Safe Mode)
That's it. Done. Takes about 1 minute total time.

I can't believe they had me recreate profiles and reinstall all of office, destroy many of my settings when Safe Mode would have been plenty.
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