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The new Outlook search in the title bar is disconnected from the content it searches
I see the consistency between MS Office products to be completely irrelevant and a huge negative if it detracts on everyday usability. To use this as a justification for the change is crazy and given the number of comments a poorly researched one. It assumes users are incapable of knowing which product they are in and to adjust accordingly. And this is the reason I so object to this backward step. The position of the outlook search box was much better and the interface better (less clicks) to achieve the everyday searches. It should stay there or users should have the option to revert to the previous position. As a user of two screens its place in the blue bar is at best annoying as it makes moving around apps on the screens more difficult.
In term search functionality I have not seen any benefit and I also find the fact that is searches across all MS Office products to be a real pain. I'm in Outlook, I want to search just my emails not a word or excel or whatever! Just emails! If I want to search for other files I'll use a different app to search for them.
Overall, as with many other users I dislike this "improvement" and find it affects my productivity.
Ed_Watkiss I registered on this forum just to agree with you.
I'm not sure if the developers of office are using 14" laptop screens as it may not be as disruptive for them but using a 24", 27", and 32" high DPI monitors, this search box is seriously disruptive to my work flow. Everything about it is wrong. I just want to search for text related to an email I need to find, I don't care about all of this other garbage that comes up.
Honestly, stepping back and looking at this objectively it makes zero sense why a developer would do this and that someone would actually sign off on this. I can only assume they don't search as regularly as most business workers do.