Outlook keep resetting ribbon back to default after changes

Absolutely bot responses.

I am tired of resetting any and all Microsoft products customizations literally every other day. Isn't there a preferences file somewhere that can be saved and then copied over when ribbons get rewritten?

Yes, you can use the "export/import" function in the "Customize the Ribbon" window (brought up with a right click in a blank area of the ribbon). You can export your current ribbon and Quick Access toolbar customizations as a file "Outlook Customizations.exportedUI"; the file can be saved to any folder you want.

The same procedure can be used to backup ribbon/quick access customizations for each of the Office applications.

From another post: Are you friggen kidding? Resetting peoples settings is an intentional design? This is the dumbest thing I've heard...

Fortunately I save my customized ribbons using the export feature. But really, why does Microsoft allow customizations if the intent is to remove them on a regular basis? Microsoft: please explain NOW.

Absolutely bot responses.

I am tired of resetting any and all Microsoft products customizations literally every other day. Isn't there a preferences file somewhere that can be saved and then copied over when ribbons get rewritten?

This response was obviously written by a bot. That's not a human response.

Are you friggen kidding? Resetting peoples settings is an intentional design? This is the dumbest thing I've heard and why I use a Mac for anything not required by my work.

"But with Windows you have more control and customization than a Mac, there are 10 trillion minute infinitely customizable details. We included so many you literally won't be able to find how to tweak what should be basic available changes. Like in Outlook, we think you should only get to make the docked calendar so small so we limit the sizing. But you can go into settings and find a way to set preview columns literally down to the pixel. But the good news is once you get everything set up to how YOU prefer, we are going to reset it to how we like it. Because we care about the user"

Sadly what you say is true. I started using Office and Outlook in the 90's and even then it was obvious that MacOS was a better operating system, however most of the software that I use(d) at that time wasn't available for Macs and in any case MS already had the business world enslaved to their ecosystem. While their products are often buggy and they love to flout their arrogant assumption that all of their customers are helpless idiots, one thing you can't deny is that Bill Gates, Steve Balmer and now Satya Nadella, have all understood that you don't necessarily need a great product in order to capture the market, just a great marketing strategy.

So for better or for worse I have stayed with Windows (and learned to skip every second version) since my first PC and now I'm too old (or too lazy) to migrate. My kids, who are smarter than me, all have Macs.