Outlook launchbar plus#

The Search Suggestions are just weird: it is acting now as a kind os search history. Not only the placement on top but also the added “features”. I am just another frustrated Outlook user 🙁īeen using Office Outlook for years and by far, this is the worst change. What I am about to write is ofcourse no rant towards you. Thank you Michael and also for the video. MS – abysmal change on this occasion and no idea who would let this get through the change board. I am part of a small company making interfaces like this and we are continually reviewing the UX, usability, simplicity, and checking with user groups that they approve of the changes with any feed back carefully reviewed in context and where valid is implemented. This is not uncommon with MS and their poor decision making in some areas of the business. Why have a close search button when clicking off the area closes it anyway. The problem is clicking away immediately turns the search box off which then means another 3 clicks to get back to the right box (hopefully). “More”, “Recent Searches” or “Search tools”, if you find you click on it in error or the drop-down doesn’t contain what you expected or wanted, then the natural reaction is to click away and then click the new selection. If you click on a search bar icon with a drop-down (which is 3 clicks away), i.e. Search tab is none existent until you select “Search” which then hides the buttons you may require for the search itself which brings up the next issue.ĥ. Easy to select the wrong area in the search box and move the whole Outlook window.Ĥ. No auto complete/learn when typing in the boxes.ģ.

Outlook launchbar plus#

Plus the search button is not auto-tabbed – why not?.Ģ. To get to the search boxes and execute a search with more than a single parameter is 4 clicks (plus typing text) which in this day and age is an abysmal UX.

My experience…if not alreadu covered…Bad bad bad…plus all the other valid points well made above…ġ. I’m just saying… I do not like the new position but it has clued me into new features which I like – take a browse of those other “Quick Access Commands” and see what you could add to the top of Outlook to make like easier. These options DID exist before but now have become easier to use (since its next to the search box now). I also have, Quick Print, Undo, Send/Receive, Speak, and Open Documents Folder. So now I have 6 or so icons next to the search bar that with 1 click I can search based on the sender or in the folder I’m currently browsing…. Personally, I like the “Search current folder” option so I dont have to click the down arrow to change from “Current Mailbox”. If you click the Down arrow next to the left of the search box than “More Commands” you will find a SLEW of other search options requiring only 1 click to execute (like Search by sender). You can just click the blue bar or escape key and it goes away OR you can add a new Quick Access link to “Search by sender”! Just to start – I agree the new position is annoying BUT because it has moved, it allowed me to find new Search Options in the Quick Access Toll Bar!įor example, some people complained about the “From” button being blocked from view due to the suggestions box. It’s quite a lot of new ‘clicks’ for me, what definitely doesn’t make searching faster, it’s exactly opposite!!! It potentially saved few 0,001 sec., while it cost +2-4 sec! I am really sick of it. – Previously I could easily select if I want to search through current mailbox, subfolder or all mailboxes, right now I need to click it once, and then once more to access the list of mailboxes – When you enter required ‘sender’ or ‘subject’ you can’t type further searching criteria, because focus is automatically moved to searching results, instead of searching bar… meaning that you need to click again on the searching bar. The problem is that when you click on search bar, the ‘Subject’, ‘sender’ buttons are hidden behind the pop-up window, thus you need to click somewhere to hide it… really “great job” – To start searching, you need to click on the searching bar, because there is no easily accessible button on the ribbon. I fully agree that it’s nightmare and in my case definitely it’s delaying searching process.