New Outlook updates enable you to customize your experience and help you stay focused and organized

Wow, the "Coming Soon" option turned into 48 hour pain-in-the butt for me. First, while I like the option for a compact Ribbon for small screens, I found two huge problems for the way I use Outlook with it:

1. The Header area (To/From/Start/Finsh times for meetings, etc.) was HUGE. It filled much of the window. Ironically, this more than cancels out any benefit to the scaled back Ribbon.
2. It was no longer possible to minimize the Ribbon in one window without minimizing the Ribbon in ALL windows. I keep two Outlook windows open at all times -- one with my mail and one with my calendar. I keep the calendar full screen on weekly view on a small 1920x1080 display. That's a really small screen and I don't do anything except look at my calendar, so I want the Ribbon off on that window so I can see the full view from start to finish of every day. But on all other windows I want the Ribbon to remain visible for quick access to functions.

These were both major steps backward for me. I hope these are fixed before these features are forced to all users. If the header area were back to the current size and we could turn Ribbon on or off for each Outlook window (like we can now), I'd like the added option for the narrower Ribbon.

But that's not all. Once I turned on "Coming Soon", I couldn't turn it back off -- the "Coming Soon" option no longer appeared to the upper right. I spent hours on this, including several with multiple support people at MS, where they had me run a Quick Repair, Online Repair, creating a whole new Profile, completely uninstalling Office 365 and doing a full redownload and reinstall, deleting the Outlook folder in AppData, none of which worked. Fortunately, I finally figured out the fairly simple solution on my own. In case anyone else got stuck in a similar situation:

1. Make sure Outlook is closed
2. Start the existing installed version of Outlook in Safe Mode, via Run (Windows + R), then type: outlook.exe /safe
3. The option to turn "Coming Soon" back off is available again in the upper right
4. Toggle "Coming Soon" back to off
5. Close and restart Outlook normally (not in Safe Mode)

I can't believe they had me recreate profiles and reinstall all of office, destroy many of my settings when Safe Mode would have been plenty.