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Delete button - hide in outlook
- In Old Outlook (which is our preferred platform) there is no control of the Delete button, it is not in the quick steps or quick actions to manage. It is fixed, not controllable. Poor placement and invisible until accidentally pressed! horrible by design. New outlook is avoided by most users.
Hi Fmudsy,
Please switch your outlook from MOUSE to TOUCH mode, it will disappear the DELETE icon from your outlook..
The steps are as follows:
Touch Mode spaces the buttons a little farther apart on the screen, so they’re easier to tap. You can turn on Touch Mode by tapping the Touch Mode button on the Quick Access Toolbar.
Or tap the Touch/Mouse Mode hand icon on the Quick Access Toolbar and tap Touch.
If you don’t see the button or the icon on the Quick Access Toolbar, you can add it.
Press, hold, then release any button on the Quick Access Toolbar, then tap Customize Quick Access Toolbar.
Under Popular commands, tap Touch Mode or Touch/Mouse Mode, and tap Add.
To turn Touch Mode off, tap the Touch Mode button again. Or tap the Touch/Mouse Mode hand icon and tap Mouse.
Regards,
MD
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This morning I woke up to a new outlook update.
Touch mode has brought back the trash can/ delete button. Whether I like it or not.
Very annoying, I can't afford to miss click because that instantly deletes the e-mail. Who at Microsoft in their right mind thought this was a good place for this button?!
Anyway, hoping any outlook guru's here have a new workaround for this.
- Switching to touch / mouse makes no difference.
- Removing "delete" from the quick actions makes no difference
- Was a MS fanboy but now becoming a hater due to the random rollout of unwanted 'features' like this. I sent feedback from outlook but that had no effect (obviously).
To anyone at MS who cares, putting delete so close to other buttons is an anti-feature, and not being able to remove it - or even set 'are you sure?' behaviour - is classic 20-something male caffeinated coder, oblivious to the rest of the world who might actually not be as dexterous as he is. Or have 20/20 vision. So shame on you.
The irony in Outlook is it still has unfixed bugs from 10y ago! (or at least features they refuse to implement). Instead we just get more bloat and chaotic GUI.
Even the settings is 'meh' - they put everything new under 'advanced' and can't be bothered to make it searchable or in any way logical.
I have FOSS products produced by ONE PERSON that has more thoughtful features.
Is it any wonder that anyone who has the freedom to choose another ecosystem is doing so??
