outlook.live.com quick actions moved to far right of email and I can't move them back beside Sender/From and Subject.

Anonymous
2022-05-04T16:03:40+00:00

My outlook.live.com quick actions moved to the far right of subject and received column and I can't move them back beside sender and subject. The quick actions appear on far right of email. I went to Mail - Customize actions -Quick actions. The template shows them on right but the screen narrative shows "Quick actions appear beside sender names and subject lines in your message list". Please help me get the quick actions back to between From (Sender Name) and Subject.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-05-16T14:06:20+00:00

    I use Outlook 365 web version and this is very frustrating. In typical Microsoft fashion, they make changes to your workflow, fixing things that aren't broken and don't provide options. Make it a feature, call it a feature, and give us an option to put it on the left or right. Or better yet, make it a column like everything else and let us put it where ever we want. This is the same issue with teh side bar "quick access" function they added... I would rather have that screen space available and just click on the menu to access the other features.

    I used the feedback option to say as much, in both cases.

    For me, one of the biggest issues is I regularly use the cursor or highlight text that I am reading, which means jumping to the far edge of the page every time is a huge waste of time. This is where Gmail has always put those same buttons, but I much prefer the way Outlook used to put them, beside the sender name. Conservation of motion is everything when processing so many emails ever day.

    The Office ecosystem is about productivity, please stop making my business life less productive with unrequest unannounced and unwanted changes.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-05-16T14:34:39+00:00

    I just got the UI update and not sure pleased with the placement on the far right. The old UI format perfect and wished I could customize the placement

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-05-16T14:50:48+00:00

    Woke up to this change this morning. Must have happened overnight. As always I first thought I had randomly and mistakenly hit a certain button that, PRESTO!, changed the format. Spent 30 minutes trying to figure out how to get the "actions" back where they belong. Then I found this recent posting (but only after Googling the words in the right order!). Hard to believe this is not customizable. Horrible, just horrible. It's unsettling to know that a company can have this level of control over how they feel we want things.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-05-16T14:53:59+00:00

    In Gmail the icons are on the far right and in Yahoo mail the icons are split between the middle and the far right. I have always found Outlook so much better in this respect so it is annoying Microsoft have changed it to look like Gmail. Change for the sake of change or perhaps trying to be like Google? Please change it back Microsoft, have confidence in yourselves, not everything Google do is better.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-05-16T14:54:46+00:00

    An absolutely ridiculous change. It makes nearly everything I do in OWA (for work) harder and less efficient. This has to be a mistake, right?

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