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You have 2208 - that is an older build. You need 2211 - it was released in late November - early December.
Are you in the current channel? It's under the version / build in File > Office Account. The enterprise channel is in a slow lane and is 6 months behind.
Yeah, there's a raw registry command that will revert it back to the bottom. Unlike the fix Diane_Poremsky_MVP provided, it's a single command run at the Powershell prompt.
I'm not going to post it here (sorry) because I don't want someone to accidentally blow up their registry but perhaps your corporate help desk can provide it. I get that some folks might not want to do that.
Personally, I tried all the suggestions here and while I appreciate everyone chiming in, none of them worked except the reg fix.
HI Diane, So I don't like having to use Registry fixes only because it down the road it can cause issues. FYI I'm in IT just don't have the role to enforce policies.
I did figure out how to resolve this because I also wanted to be on the latest version so I ran a repair on office and forced it to download the latest from the internet and that resolved the issue. Thanks for the all the suggestions.
Derek
- I'm assuming they also control the registry - if not, the registry hack should work too.
My instructions that I no longer need to give out:
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If you have an older version of Outlook, you can open the registry editor and find an entry that is named Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Hub.HubBar and change it to False.
It should be in one of these two locations, depending on the channel.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentConfigs\ExternalFeatureOverrides\outlook
or
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentEcs\Overrides
If it is not in either location, you can add a string value named Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Hub.HubBar to the key below and set it to False, then restart Outlook. (It's only a short term fix, although right now, we don't know how short term.)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentConfigs\ExternalFeatureOverrides\outlook
If you don't want to edit the registry, I have a ready to use reg file at the end of this article -
https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/outlooks-left-navigation-bar/
<< Unfortunately my company manages the updates. I'll see if they will release the update.
