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The new Outlook search in the title bar is disconnected from the content it searches
I appreciate the benefits of Microsoft Search in the Office apps but I'm getting feedback form multiple people that having the search in the title bar is unhelpful because they need to use the title ...
My 2p is that for someone who doesn't use every app maximised there's frequently very little title bar to drag without tripping over various bits that have been moved there now. I know who I am, so don't need that taking up a huge swathe of space and was happy with where search was.
It's going to completely mess up my way of working
It's going to completely mess up my way of working
- Replying to myself now a number of months on I've got more used to it, but there's no consistent way to work round the fact that working from home via remote desktop becomes quite a chore when the connection bar for RD sits right over the search bar and I have to keep resizing windows or moving it to see the search bar and often just typing blind
- This is a terrible change. The search effectively acts as a filter on the message list, and so removing it from the context of the list pane is downright confusing, besides requiring extra mouse movement as many have already stated.
If Microsoft cannot or will not make this a configuration option, they should at least add a quick search/quick filter bar (giving immediate feedback / live preview) back in at the top of the list view. Actually, that would be similar to how Thunderbird handles filters/search.FlorianStallmann Comparing Outlook to Thunderbird is like comparing a pickup truck to a sports car. The best I could do is to add the legacy Advanced Search tool to the Outlook Ribbon:
paulcopsey It's an ill-conceived design change, making it virtually impossible to grab some title bars to move the window now. There is an open UserVoice topic about this at:
https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/322590-outlook-2016-for-windows/suggestions/39046513-search-at-the-top-option
