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.

Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-05-17T11:42:21+00:00

    This change is really bad. I get around 400 emails per day and I need to go through deleting them either based on sender or subject, or flagging based on the same information. This makes it necessary for your eye to travel along the whole line of the email to make sure it is the right one etc. It also makes it much harder to scan down for flagged emails to see what to deal with next as your eye has to flick back and forth over the whole width of the page.

    Just an appalling change and makes it very hard to use in the way I have grown accustomed to over the last 20 years. At least provide configurable columns so users can choose. This has just tripled the time I have to spend on email and made it harder on the eyes.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-05-17T11:41:36+00:00

    I've been using Hotmail continuously since its introduction. Then it was needlessly changed from an AMAZING brand name to 'Outook.live.com'; trips off the tongue doesn't it!! I hope the consultants who came up with that got a few million!

    It's struck me, over the years, that as the original programmers retire, 'new gen' programmers are keeping themselves in a salary and justifying their jobs by making pointless, unnecessary and disruptive changes. I just don't get it. It's NOT smart. PLEASE, at least, give us the option to revert the 'Quick Action' column back to where it used to be!!

    I've spent more time, than I care to admit, trying to sort it out and even trying to find what the column's called!!

    That's one of the main reasons I don't use GoogleMail who you've now copied!!! I have to admit that I haven't checked to see if it's possible to move THAT column in Gmail....MORE wasted time. :(

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-05-17T11:30:29+00:00

    That is one of the many reasons I hate Gmail. Changing to a configuration that is cumbersome just to be like them seems stupid.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-05-17T11:27:13+00:00

    Hi, please change it back to where it was, or let us change it back with a setting option.

    Thanks

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-05-17T11:10:22+00:00

    I'm also baffled over the decision to move the quick actions... but it is now how gmail is (see attached picture), so maybe MS somehow have looked their way?

    Anyway it's a bad idea for desktop users anyway... it might be good for mobile users so they can quikly push the Icon with their right hand.

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