Funny how I googled and googled, and asked friends, and they said no theirs had not changed. I am literally looking at an email I am test searching in my Inbox. Very bad decision. I dont need to retire, I am not loosing it.. This new form is crazy bad. Absolutamente horrible. FRUSTRATING!!!!! I dont recall clicking on any of those things in the last decade. If Microsoft has run out of ideas, perhaps they should think about asking its user base before making changes and calling it innovation. I always use the refinements with to, from, subject etc. You have to use Ctrl-V to paste the text. I use Remote Desktop to connect to my workstation, now I have to slide over the session drop down or it slides in front of my search box every time I go to search. A good change would have been to remove or increase the search results limit of 1,025 items!!! My Outlook just updated to this new feature. Assuming its A, this is a slap in the face to all users of the desktop application. The new search bar doesnt start a search until you hit the Enter key. This is terrible, can anyone tell me how to cancel the search, because I cant see my inbox items except those I searched for. To say the new search bar position sucks is an understatement !!! I still work and now from home and thought :: Its time to retire I am loosing it Until I saw this article . Disclaimer: Whatever the heck you do, youre doing it at your own risk and I may not be under no circumstance held responsible! WTF!!! Mine just changed Dont Like it at all.
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And all it takes is a tap on the Esc key to make the dropdown box disappear, so what are we whining about, anyway? ","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/authors/9718"}},{"authorId":10015,"name":"Jennifer Reed","slug":"jennifer-reed","description":"
Rosemarie Withee is President of Portal Integrators and Founder of Scrum Now with office in Seattle, WA and Laguna, Philippines. 2. Absolutely awful! Were whining because (1) were used to the ribbon and we hate change, and (2) shut up. You might not have realized it but Outlook has had two search boxes for a while now. https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/322590-outlook-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/39046513-search-at-the-top-option. Cant find emails I am looking for. Biggest miss for me on this improvement is that even when I added Categories into displayed search fields, its a single select I use categories extensively so its useless to me to pull up ABC only when i also need 123 because this fabulousness only shows EVERY SINGLE ABC email. I typed in how do I boldface a word, and a pane opened on the right to point me to an explanation of Linear format equations using Unicode Math and LaTeX.. Too bad! I like to search my contacts in the Card view but can no longer do that. and I am on overload? I googled: Im really conscious of the loss in the Contacts folder, where I was accustomed to finding names by typing and correcting spelling on the fly until I had the right result. The easiest way is to use the Tell Me feature, which sits at the top of the ","noIndex":0,"noFollow":0},"content":"There are three ways to find help in Outlook or any of the Office 365 applications. This new search location is stupid and the search is not working as the old one, at least for me! Its Microsoft update roulette! and, STOP MOVING MY DAMN CHEESE!!! We disabled office updates and it still moved the search bar. I thought "Tell me what to do" was the "Help" menu. This change is TERRIBLE. 
I can't seem to find the version of Excel. The new search inhibits that freedom of choice. How the ***k can they do this! But it continued to existed on anyones computer that had a home (personal) set-up , that used one of our Training Centers MS Office 97s CDs. Now I can go to the task pane directly and ask for steps. Its the Microsoft Zone, frequently also a mysterious place. \"https://sb\" : \"http://b\") + \".scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js\";el.parentNode.insertBefore(s, el);})();\r\n","enabled":true},{"pages":["all"],"location":"footer","script":"\r\n
Why cant I search city names or zip codes now? My search bar appeared overnight, today is the first day. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Its just a search box. What I find most irritating and Im not sure this the fault of the new search bar but I can no longer see my current mailbox at the top of the screen! Click the little arrow pointing down and you should see the advanced search options (which will once again allow to add things like to, from, categories, attachment yes/no). It took me an hour to find this post. When you click in the new search bar, the box that comes down covers most of the ribbon. I kept thinking I was making a mistake. Worst change ever. The bar drops down over the menu. ","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/authors/10888"}},{"authorId":9718,"name":"Ken Withee","slug":"ken-withee","description":"
Rosemarie Withee is President of Portal Integrators and Founder of Scrum Now with office in Seattle, WA and Laguna, Philippines. Nope, can do that anymore. Changing the search bar was a terrible idea. Yes, thank you, MARK858, I changed my version to 365 on my profile and I am able to use Search Bar, which works well if I am looking for a formula or something with a simple Excel term. If you copy some text, you cant right-click and hit Paste with the next search box. Regarding autofill Change the settings File Options Search and select When possible display results as the query is typed, There are other ways to customize it eg adding or subtracting the number of fields it will search. Your email address will not be published. I'm sorry, hopefully my next question will be of a different nature. Change for the sake of change makes no sense at all. What possible reason would there be to put a drop-down menu inside the title bar of a window. Good luck! Frustrating!! No such luck the search bar stays up top even if the QAT is moved down below. See it up at the top? I get emails from a sales portal, cut and paste the email address in the search field to see when I emailed this person last. what band of idiots dreamed this up i will never know, Change just came for me in September Hate it. GRRR!!! Great solution. Now with this new feature(nothing feature), I am searching the needle in the ocean and got nothing. How the hell is anyone meant to enjoy this product when it keeps changing every time there is a change in season? keep it where it was B/. Instead of searching for, for those of us who remote into work we often have a remote access toolbar at the top of our screen can be slid left or right but cannot be removed. Search within Outlook for me has been hit or miss for over a year now mostly miss but I do use it often, rather than take the time to sort the literally hundreds of email messages I receive daily into folders. Its an extra line (thus less space for the rest of outlook on the monitor). I miss my MAC and Entourage. Its holy writ. Its passed down by genetic memory. Most of these little pukes use their phones nearly 100% of the time anyway, or use O365 online and not the desktop app any longer, so its slightly understandable. Microsoft is!!! Either way you need to remember why you are where you are and start caring about your customer again. i seriously am so annoyed. Your article was well written & made me smile! hate hate hate the new outlook search. this is so irritating. This is making me so slow. the new search location is a total crap . Looks like they simply made it part of the Quick Access Toolbar. Worst update ever. With all the crap in outlook you would think they would have made this an option. When searching for something in particular it is sensible to identify closely what it is you are looking for to avoid finding many other things that are not of interest. Question. has anyone figured out how to get the classic search feature back? Keep it in mind when you need help with an Outlook feature. Just change the location of the QAT to below the Ribbon and it no longer interferes with the Ribbon options. The moron responsible for inflicting this brain fart upon us should be fired, sued for reparations, and banished to Siberia. 2. Now when I do that it opens the dang search options. I have absolutely NO search capability! Keep an eye on the search bar so youre not frightened when it starts moving around. With the new search bar, it takes five clicks. The general consensus online seems to be that no one likes it. Can they please fire the team that came up with this nightmare. Not even on MSofts Fluent UI design site (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/downloads/#samples) would they remotely suggest developers should do such a stoopid thing. I just dont understand the thinking of some people.. was someones job replaced for such an action because the DICKHEAD who thought of this doesnt deserve a job, anyjob. Search is probably the most widely used feature of outlook. Above the ribbon, on the title bar. Someone with good intentions, forgot to ask ANYONE who uses Outlook what they thought. LOL. Prefer the old way. 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