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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.
A solution as discussed here
Outlook for Windows: New location for the Mail, Calendar, People, and other modules (microsoft.com)
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It looks like this feature has now been rolled out to the Current Channel, so the workaround to turn off "Comin soon" is no longer available.
This is a very poor UI change from Microsoft, for all of the reasons outlined in this thread. I find myself feeling incredibly frustrated at them here and entirely powerless. Grrr!
I'd love to know if anybody is aware of a way to revert this, or even any kind of forum through which we can feed back to MS themselves.
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