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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.
After so many suggestions and other regedits which didn't work for me, this finally did. Thank you so much. I had to add this string value
Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Hub.HubBar
with value=false as it was not existing in my registry (at least at this point in time) in key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentEcs\Overrides
Finally moved the **bleep** nav bar back to bottom. However, since this key is in "Experiment" domain, I fear soon I'll have to google again for this nonsense. Can't believe how UI designers think wasting so much vertical space and reducing content page space for those 4 items makes any sense at all...
If you want to help fix this bull* for good, please support this idea in Outlook feedback:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/6b9896c4-e49f-ec11-a81c-002248504419