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Happy 2022!
A couple days ago, I opened a spreadsheet (that I update, daily), & discovered that the Formula Bar had moved to the bottom of my screen. It still does what it's supposed to, but this positioning makes life difficult in multiple ways (details below).
I can't find an update to the Excel app, or Android OS, that seems recent enough to be responsible, though the Excel screen did seem to become set, approx the same time, to match phone's day/night color schemes.
I can't find any mention, or images – online, on Microsoft.com, in tech pubs/blogs, or community forums – of this behavior, or of any way to move the Formula Bar.
Can anyone provide insight into what happened, or how to fix it?
NOTE : System + app versions follow screenshot, along with "difficulties caused" – mentioned above.
Many thanks for any solution(s?) &/or insights❗
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UPDATE: This morning [22-May'22], I opened Excel, on my Android phone, & MS "asked" whether I've enjoyed the "Updated Feature: …Has your editing experience become easier having the Formula Bar at the bottom?" {see add'l att}
BINGO ❗ IT'S A FEATURE, NOT A BUG
[Does not explain why an MS rep would request info, trying to replicate the "Feature"]
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PHONE : Samsung Galaxy S21 (5G)
OS : Android version 12
: One UI version 4.0
: Android security patch 1-December'21
EXCEL (for Android) : V 1.0.1 (16.0.14729.20146)
PROBLEMS
• Decades of Excel habits, using Formula Bar at top.
• Pop-ups, while typing (suggestions, option selection, etc.), display on top of toolbar, making click/select errors – that clear all content from formula/data entry field – inevitable.
• Enlarging the Formula Bar covers bottom (typically more important) rows of spreadsheet, + makes them trickier to access.
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Latest Android update does not fix issue.
Still on the bottom.
I cleared cache, I Uninstalled, and reinstalled.
It's really weird that the limited feature excel that I have on my android tablet has the formula entry bar at the top, and my limited feature excel android phone version has it at the bottom. Both using similar resolution screens. How does it decide whether top or bottom? Both are running android 11.
So any updates or responses from office team or Microsoft?
I have supplied feedback via the app.?
Perhaps if we all did that, they might actually take some notice?
It's not something you changed, and I think a lot of us are doubtful that it's a MS sanctioned update, versus a bug that happens to different people at different times, since there is no known consistency when it happens.
I got hit with it on only 1 phone back in Jan. Since I'd recently gotten the phone, I decided to do a factory reset, and in doing so, loaded the latest version of Excel at that time. Up until a few days ago, the formula bar was back at the top where most of us want it, and I kept the app regularly updated. When it jumped back to the bottom again, I checked the other phones in my household, and now all 3 have the formula bar at the bottom, and all 3 are running different versions of Excel.