After researching how to get it back to how it looked, which was much more in my taste, much easier to navigate, had what I needed and nothing more, - I now see I can't get it back after it was updated. I think i'm gonna completely disgard of this email, I liked how it looked on PC, it was dark, fast, easy to find things, now it's very complicated with a lot of options and tools i have no use for, and it's bright, with small buttons everywhere. The browser version is alright, so that is what I will be using. I will uninstall outlook completely as a program from my PC, as I do not wish to have this update, and it's more trouble and much more confusing and irritating, than helping and good. It will complicate work and how easy it was before, but that's just how it is, when updates are being forced upon people. It's a typical thing of big coperations to do this, so it dosen't surprise me, that some people who think they know it all, make something new, to shove down the users throat, instead of being able to choose ourselves.

Dear Natasja Hansen, Good day! Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are glad to assist. As per your mentioned description about "The new update on OUTLOOK mail, is terrible". If you are using Outlook for office 365 kindly check with below steps check if it will make difference: kindly go to File --> Options- -> Advanced -->Uncheck Shows Apps in Outlook, then restart your outlook or close outlook and open it again. Or if it changes to new outlook kindly uncheck try the new Outlook make sure that is off. then restart outlook check if it will make any difference. If you want dark background, kindly go to File --> Office Account -->under office theme choose Black Also, Have you tried steps in this article, How to revert to an earlier version of Office (microsoft.com) ? There are 3 steps to revert to the previous version of office: Step 1: Set a reminder to enable automatic updates at a future date. Step 2: Install the previous version of Office: Check and download the version you want from Update history for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (listed by date) Step 3: Disable automatic updates for Office. If you don't have above options, would you mind to kindly provide the screenshot of the outlook version, are you using? Kindly go to File-->Office Account. this will help us to guide you how you revert back to previous outlook. Please feel free to let me know if there are any updates or if I've got you wrong. I will keep assisting you based on the information you provide. We sincerely appreciate your patience and cooperation. Once again, we apologize for the inconvenience this issue has caused. Thanks for your understanding, patience and cooperation. Stay safe! Best regards, Inema | Microsoft Community Moderator

The new update on OUTLOOK mail, is terrible

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After researching how to get it back to how it looked, which was much more in my taste, much easier to navigate, had what I needed and nothing more, - I now see I can't get it back after it was updated.
I think i'm gonna completely disgard of this email, I liked how it looked on PC, it was dark, fast, easy to find things, now it's very complicated with a lot of options and tools i have no use for, and it's bright, with small buttons everywhere.

The browser version is alright, so that is what I will be using. I will uninstall outlook completely as a program from my PC, as I do not wish to have this update, and it's more trouble and much more confusing and irritating, than helping and good. It will complicate work and how easy it was before, but that's just how it is, when updates are being forced upon people.

It's a typical thing of big coperations to do this, so it dosen't surprise me, that some people who think they know it all, make something new, to shove down the users throat, instead of being able to choose ourselves.

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2023-02-24T13:16:04+00:00
Dear Natasja Hansen,

Good day!

Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are glad to assist.

As per your mentioned description about "The new update on OUTLOOK mail, is terrible". If you are using Outlook for office 365 kindly check with below steps check if it will make difference: kindly go to File-->Options-->Advanced-->Uncheck Shows Apps in Outlook, then restart your outlook or close outlook and open it again.

Or if it changes to new outlook kindly uncheck try the new Outlook make sure that is off. then restart outlook check if it will make any difference.

If you want dark background, kindly go to File-->Office Account-->under office theme choose Black

Also, Have you tried steps in this article, How to revert to an earlier version of Office (microsoft.com)? There are 3 steps to revert to the previous version of office:
- Step 1: Set a reminder to enable automatic updates at a future date.
- Step 2: Install the previous version of Office: Check and download the version you want from Update history for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (listed by date)
- Step 3: Disable automatic updates for Office.
If you don't have above options, would you mind to kindly provide the screenshot of the outlook version, are you using? Kindly go to File-->Office Account. this will help us to guide you how you revert back to previous outlook.

Please feel free to let me know if there are any updates or if I've got you wrong. I will keep assisting you based on the information you provide. We sincerely appreciate your patience and cooperation.

Once again, we apologize for the inconvenience this issue has caused. Thanks for your understanding, patience and cooperation. Stay safe!

Best regards,

Inema | Microsoft Community Moderator
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