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The new Outlook search in the title bar is disconnected from the content it searches
I agree MaryB My group is 1)confused where it went 2) tried several things to get the old bar back 3) dislike the search results.. They like the effortlessness of where the search bar was above the Inbox.
Anna - CleanSlate Techology Group
Same problem. I have four installs of Microsoft 365 Outlook desktop and I never know which one will show what search bar. Yesterday the new search bar was in the title bar. Today, after forcing a version update (MS "Update" wont' do it), the search is back to it's old position.
What's with this? Why not let users control this?
ricardoswe Well, I was able to do one thing to make the pain less from the new search bar -- I put in several dozen separators in the quick action toolbar. That pushes the search farther to the right in the title bar, which works better for me. YMMV.
DougBrodaI read through several forums about this issue and this response was so helpful that I had to go ahead and set up an account just so I could say thank you!
This is my first post so I'm not sure how it will display or link back, but this was the advice: "I was able to do one thing to make the pain less from the new search bar -- I put in several dozen separators in the quick action toolbar. That pushes the search farther to the right in the title bar, which works better for me. YMMV."
My main complaint about the new placement in the header is that the automatic drop down obscured the refinement options on the search ribbon, which meant that I had to do multiple clicks to construct a search (something I do dozens and dozens of times a day!). With Doug's trick, the search bar has moved over to the right far enough that the drop down doesn't obscure the search refinement buttons any more!
That being said, Microsoft still needs to just give us the option to revert to the previous location!
