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Outlook 365, how to go back to OLD ribbon graphics and icons
I find outlook totally unusable since it updated to the new for-toddler icons. Not only is it ugly, it's distracting and unusable. As if outlook is broken and running in safe-let's-go-back-to-1995-m...
You made great points. I use Office at work and have an O365 subscription for home. At work, we are very Zoom/ G Suite/ Slack focused but if I want to get anything serious done, I go back to Excel, Powerpoint etc. There is a group of us resisting the move to dumbed down, over simplified, hard to use interfaces because that is Google Sheets!! After reading your post and all the others, I will give up, use Google sheets, and will wait for the renewal of O365 at home and cancel it. Hard to believe MS has worked hard to give up it's advantage and lose revenue.
Seems to be the way of the world, dumbing down. There are some of us resisting it but we seem to be so few. Is the majority so happy with what MS are doing? Or is the majority in fact those who do not actually 'buy' Offfice but acquire it by other means or with only a few bucks so they don't actually have a vested interest anyway? I really miss my old truly moddable Office.
- Do you remember Business Contact Manager? It was an AMAZING add-on to Outlook that I used all the time in my clinic until those **bleep**ers at Microsoft created "Dynamics" a $10,000+ program that was poised to replace the $500 BCM!! I have so much anger towards them for CHOOSING to **bleep** over many of their curtomers for the benefit of the new age Sheeple. I started using Blue mail as a mobile device platform since I am unable to use Outlook. It is a fairly good system, but when I suggested the form-over-function problems, he said they purposely stayed away from "BLOATING" the software. This means new-age users can't handle using complex software. It makes them cry and need a safe space.
sorry, I don't know how to post.
In Outlook in the top right side you can see a small arrow.
It will alternate between Simplified ribbon and Classic ribbon.
I hope this helps.
- Aaah, great, thank you. I have to admit I have rarely used Outlook since it lost its Journal feature (another 'brilliant' move on MS's part 🙄).
I really do not understand their thinking - it's so inconsistent across the Office package. The simple toggle between Simplified and Classic ribbons you describe ought to be found throughout but isn't. Ho hum.
