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Is it possible to move the Search Box in Outlook to another position ?
Hello, We found that the Search Box was moved into the title bar of our desktop Outlook 365. Is it possible to change its position ? Cheers
Nope. Although they've gone through several iterations on this, so it might change in the future.
Zidong_NIE One of the thing MS will likely argue about the change is that they did it to ALL applications within the MS office suite for consistency. It's in Word, Excel, PPt, etc. I personally to not consider that a valid excuse. Laziness should not be an excuse for poor decisions. I don't care if it works fine in Word or Excel. It doesn't work in Outlook, and that is all that should matter.
- Perhaps, but I note that both Word and PowerPoint have a dedicated switch in their Options entitled Collapse Search Box by Default. This eliminates the box in favor of a search icon, which can be reached with Alt+Q.
That 100% assuages my objections. Too bad that they did not add that option to Outlook. I think we can all agree that the search bar at the top for any of office products is a terrible location. Microsoft should not assume that because there hasn't been a upswell of complaints that it's OK.
