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This morning Outlook updated and I noticed there is a new search bar to search apps, how may I remove this bar?
I do not use apps, do not want to use apps and have no need to search for them.
If this is related to MS Team and conjoining everything, I still want to remove this app search bar in Outlook.
Please help.
Thank you!
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Please have a look at this Support article:
Outlook unexpectedly has an App Search bar above the message list
Try updating your Office installation (File > Account > Update Options > Update Now).
The bug should be fixed; see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/outlook-unexpectedly-has-an-app-search-bar-above-the-message-list-c1bed629-0d4e-42d4-b66e-877cccb74b47.
This new "feature" (App Search) has confined the regular Search and the box indicating "which mailboxes to search" to a virtually unusable screen area. This needs to be a tunable option.
Really? Disable updates is your solution? You have no issue with with your solution that disabling updates opens up systems to hacks because we will forget to turn auto-updates back on?
This is crazy. I don't even know what "search by apps" means, and all I do know is that I can barely see the search bar that I use frequently on a daily basis. That's what I get for restarting my laptop for the first time in a few days!
Thank you to the people on here who have suggested fixes t this. I don't particularly want to roll back the update and remove auto updates, but I guess this may be the only option.
I'm a fan of progress and I don't mind change - but I feel that many tweaks that Microsoft make to Outlook just make it more annoying to use!