The new word based navigation bar instead of a small icon based navigation. If you don’t like this, you can easily turn it back into the icon based navigation as it was in Outlook 2010 and previous.
Is there any way to put it back there and gain back some of this wasted space?ĭepending on your screen’s resolution and whether or not you are using a touch screen, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016 could indeed by default show you a large navigation strip at the bottom as shown below.
I liked this configuration better as this was a lot smaller and therefor allows for more space to display the message list and also gives me a larger Reading Pane area. In previous versions of Outlook, they were listed as icons within the pane on the left which also displays all your folders. In Outlook 2016, there is this huge gray bar at the bottom which lists (in a very big font) Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks, etc… to switch to their corresponding folder.
