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navigation bar moved to left
Might be a bit of a thread necro, but I just recently ran into this problem with a client and Outlook. Turning "Coming Soon" off didn't help at all - still would have the Folder List on the left, and Safe Mode did nothing as well. I ran across this gem in Reddit :
shadowsong42 :
Necro-ing this thread so that future me will be able to find the answer the next time a coworker has this problem.
The "coming soon" option didn't work for me, but a variation on a regedit suggestion did the trick.
The suggestion was to go to the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentEcs\Overrides
and find the string value
Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Hub.HubBar
and change it from true to false.
Now, I'm running an Insider Channel, so it turns out I don't have to mess with registry hacks. Instead, I have an extra item in the Options window called "Experiment", containing a list of "Feature Names" that look a lot like registry values.
Search for "HubBar" in the list of features, change the feature value from true to false, restart Outlook, and voila: Bob's your uncle and the nav bar (or HubBar, I guess) is back where it should be.
I did the Registry hack shadowsong42 mentioned, and it worked perfectly. Hopefully this will help out others with this problem. MICROSOFT, PLEASE GIVE US A CHOICE! Make it appear vertically by default, but give us an option to change so those people that have a problem with it can change it.
I didn't have the registry key so I created a new string key Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Hub.HubBar and modified it to have value false and restarted Outlook... Boom, the HubBar is back at the bottom... Thanks ! DanLhotka
can you provide screen shots of what you did and how you did it? I am not the most technical person. I can get in the registry editor but if I have to create a new string I am not sure how to do this to make it work. I am sure there are others on here in the same situation and any help you can provide would be appreciated.MarkDJ-icon
- I believe there are 2 ways to fix this depending on whether your Outlook screen has the "Coming Soon" button on the top right (if it does, turn it off!)
If you don't have the Coming Soon button, ShadowSong42's fix (elsewhere in this string) worked for me:
1) Open REGEDIT (*Note* - if you're not familiar with Registry edits, ask someone who is - making the wrong changes here can seriously screw things up...):
2) Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentEcs\Overrides
3) Look for a String Value called "Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Hub.HubBar"
4) If it's there, change it from True to False. If you don't find it, you can simply add it.
5) Restart Outlook
2) Everyone else.
For- Absolute legend. Worked for me!
It's absurd that Microsoft, for all it's touting of accessibility and user first focus, would FORCE a UI change like this. It should be an optional setting. If anyone from the office team reads this: you need to hire some new managers tbh.
