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Today my desktop Outlook application was updated and a new "App Bar" was moved to the left of the screen, previously it was located under my folders list with small icons and took up zero screen real estate, not so anymore.
Now it appears as a full screen height column with medium sized icons to the left of Outlook and it takes up way too much screen real estate, on my screen only about 15% of it can be even used with "app" icons pinned to it, the rest is just grey wasted space that takes away from the main job of Outlook reading/writing emails.
Is there a way to move this app bar, remove it, or at least minimise it to somewhere that doesn't use up so much space.
What's the reason for Microsoft to try and replicate a poor version of the Windows Start Menu within Outlook, one that's only limited to 3 Microsoft apps, I don't get this and would really like Microsoft to stop messing with UI, Windows 11 taskbar ahem.
Regards, LK
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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I went to:
File>Options>Advanced>Checkbox titled "Show Apps in Outlook"
After you uncheck and then click "OK" outlook will require a restart to make the change. After restart the "Apps Bar" returns to the pervious location below the folders.
This happened to me this morning and it's horrible
That "hack" misses out the important bit of course - how to move the damn thing. I don't want those icons anyway - never had any use for them and been using outlook since it was invented!
We are running Office CTR and recently went to monthly instead of every 6 months for versioning.
This movement of the app bar just appeared on my machine, so I suspect that it has appeared on most of our company machines as well. I suspect we will have a very busy couple of days with tickets from our corporate users wondering where the app bar went and why they can't move it back.
We need answers and options, Microsoft. If it cannot be moved back, then we need to know why it was moved in the first place. My IT team has to answer to the Executive team and I am sure they will want answers as well.
@Robert Soo
see the solution I've found: Outlook for Windows: New location for the Mail, Calendar, People, and other modules (microsoft.com)
Have 365. This did not work for me