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JayAtNFT
Brass Contributor
Sep 07, 2023
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Remove unnecessary "All Apps" button

A new button called "All Apps" showed up on the left side of my Email "Home" tab today.  But when I try to "Customize Ribbon..." to remove it, the button does not show up.  My ribbon was already full...
  • Teresa_Cyrus's avatar
    Teresa_Cyrus
    Sep 07, 2023

    Hi JayAtNFT 

     

    I am an independent advisor responding to Outlook questions. 

     

    Unfortunately, you can not have both. You can not remove the All Apps icon from the left navigation. 

     

    Please provide MS with the feedback.

     

    Please remove the best response status from your previous message.

     

    /Teresa

    #traccreations4e

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JayAtNFT
Brass Contributor
Sep 07, 2023
I'm not sure how I missed it the first time, but there is a checkbox to turn it off in "Options / Advanced / Outlook panes".
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    dutch645
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 06, 2023

    JayAtNFT 

     

    I didn't know about this option previously, and I suspect it is a recent addition. There appear to be other complications here. I had the "All Apps" button in the toolbar, but it, disappeared.  In Options>Advanced the option was unchecked. As a guess, this is a pretty recent change to Outlook, and the developers decided to default to unchecked, or there is a bug that causes the option to be unselected.

    • KeithHay's avatar
      KeithHay
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 12, 2023
      Oh... even better, these "random" changes they have been making also keep trashing the group and button I have in my ribbon for running a couple of macros....
  • MikeE98's avatar
    MikeE98
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 05, 2023
    Thank you for this. I'm happy that it also removed the left bar and returned the icons to below the left pane...where they used to be.
  • JayAtNFT's avatar
    JayAtNFT
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 07, 2023
    But in keeping with my experience that Microsoft doesn't test with real users, turning off the button ALSO moves my "Email/Calendar/Contacts" toolbar from the left rail (where I want it) to the bottom (where I don't). Please tell me there's a way to leave the toolbar where it was AND turn off the button?
    • Teresa_Cyrus's avatar
      Teresa_Cyrus
      MVP
      Sep 07, 2023

      Hi JayAtNFT 

       

      I am an independent advisor responding to Outlook questions. 

       

      Unfortunately, you can not have both. You can not remove the All Apps icon from the left navigation. 

       

      Please provide MS with the feedback.

       

      Please remove the best response status from your previous message.

       

      /Teresa

      #traccreations4e

      • JayAtNFT's avatar
        JayAtNFT
        Brass Contributor
        Sep 11, 2023

        In case anyone lands here with the same goal:

        The best solution I've come up with is to turn off "Show apps in Outlook", so I don't get a Ribbon button I can't remove. I then added Mail, Calendar, and Contacts buttons to my Quick Access Toolbar and moved the QAT below the ribbon. I now have three buttons above my left nav pane to jump between the three main views I use. I don't have to go to the bottom of the left nav pane to get that functionality. It sure would be nice though not to give us a Ribbon button we can't remove.

         

        Update: Added screenshot.

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