Outlook 2021 Contacts Window Opening in Fullscreen

I came across another thread that said the following:

"To work around this issue, you can disable the Reading Pane. 

1. On the People pane select View, then Reading Pane, and set to Off.
2. If the View menu is covered, click Alt + Space Bar, and then select Restore. This will get you back to the minimized state and you can now do the Reading Pane change in Step 1.

A quick update: I went back and removed all the contacts that I had (I have a backup) and then I set the "Reading Pane" to OFF. I then added 3 contacts and I went back and forth between mail, calendar, and contacts and it seems to have been fixed, for now, the issue

I realized that this is not optimal for someone like me, who may have lots of contacts. This is because each contact needs to be removed individually one by one. This is tedious and counterproductive to what Microsoft preaches: High productivity. But it is working for me for now. I will keep digging and I will keep you guys posted

Gabriel,

I am glad that Microsoft is looking at this issue and trying to resolve it. Your "workaround" does not work. At least, not for me. When I click on the people's icon, this white window with one contact takes up the entire window. There is no way to change the view because the "view" option is not available to be able to turn off the reading pane. Could it be possible you are describing a different issue? Please look at ate attached screenshot. You will see that there is no way to change the view of the contact window. Please tell me what I am doing wrong with your workaround

I too am experiencing this problem. When in Outlook, all functions of Outlook work properly EXCEPT when in CONTACTS. When I open Contacts, the BOX typically on the R half of the screen that contains all of the contacts information and notes now appears hovering on the left half of the screen, covering over the alphabetical contact list . There is no way to move it, rendering the program unusable. I believe that this may be the result of a recent WINDOWs update within the past 10 days. (Windows 11 seems to have updates every other day.) Or possibly an Outlook update (today is Oct 4). I went into File/Office Account to check for available OUTLOOK updates. The worse of it is that if you attempt to go into the box to retrieve information on the notes - it deletes the contact!!!! I have Office Home & Business 2016 auto updated to 2021. Windows 10 auto updated to Windows 11.

I am hopeful that WINDOWS or OUTLOOK has an update to auto correct soon!

Here is the formal article for this issue with workarounds, Outlook cannot display contacts in People View (microsoft.com).