Hotmail Quick Action Icons Have Moved

Anonymous
2022-05-04T02:08:29+00:00

The Quick Action Icons (Delete, Move, Mark Unread) have moved - they were originally next to the SENDER Name, now they are on the far right (after the received time column) - how can I move them back to the original position ?

See image - they are at the GREEN arrow, I want them back at the RED arrow.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-05-08T23:13:43+00:00

    Shucks, why break a perfectly good operating UI. the icons were already in the perfect location. Now it just doesn't seem to flow.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-05-09T07:58:10+00:00

    I agree, mouse cursor is always on the LEFT, now you have to move to RIGHT to use quick action icon - can be annoying after doing a lot of mail sorting - really doesn't make a lot of sense.

    They have also added another unwanted feature - if you move a message from Junk to Inbox, you are forced into 2 more mouse movements and clicks, you now have to uncheck a box, then click OK, to move a message, otherwise, that sender will be saved as a safe sender. Again makes no sense - it was already a simple task to create a safe sender, but now you are constantly required to reconfirm who goes in your safe sender list - very annoying !!!!!!!!

    Is there someone at Microsoft that can undo these changes, or at least make them optional ?????

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-05-14T13:44:27+00:00

    I found my Quick Action column moved to the right this morning. I spent an hour trying to move it back to next to Senders, then I found this forum. I haven't tried the mentioned new issue in moving Junk to Inbox. I'll assume that's happened to me too.

    On Quick Actions, having to go all the way right makes it too easy to act on the wrong message, PITA.

    I don't like it; I want Quick Actions and moving Junk back like they were. They worked fine before, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-05-09T10:20:12+00:00

    Yes, this is ridiculous.

    Now you have to 'read' the whole line and then hover over the buttons, then scan back to see if you have the right line to eg. delete.

    Did they even try this new location out themselves??? Or do they use Mozilla Thunderbird? #sarcasm

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-05-16T12:41:30+00:00

    Very ANNOYED with this UI change ..... I'll send in feedback as a complaint but for now I'm changing the quick actions settings to remove all quick actions. What this accomplishes is that quick action icons revert to the space at the end of from and before subject just as the description in settings shows. To set an action on an email which now has no quick actions just right click that email for the actions context menu. To remove an action icon, same thing, just right click for the context menu of that email.

    I despise workarounds for changes that are NOT well controlled and well published. Shame on Microsoft!!

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