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Paul1977

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#290552 19-Nov-2021 09:37

I'm probably missing something really obvious here...

Yesterday both my home computer and work laptop (each on completely separate 365 accounts) decided to change to an "New Look" for the Office applications. No prompt or anything, it just happened. The new look is fine, but no-one else's at work has changed. We're all running the Windows 10 21H1 and Office build 14527.20276.

Is there a setting for this or something?

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tanivula

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#2815574 19-Nov-2021 09:41

Yeah, I noticed this too yesterday. You can go back to the 'old look' I believe by clicking on the 'megaphone' type icon on the top right and disable it. The icon seems to not show up in Outlook, but does is Word/Excel.

Paul1977

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#2815575 19-Nov-2021 09:50

tanivula:

Yeah, I noticed this too yesterday. You can go back to the 'old look' I believe by clicking on the 'megaphone' type icon on the top right and disable it. The icon seems to not show up in Outlook, but does is Word/Excel.

Thanks. Easy when you know where to look! Strange that it just randomly decided to enable it for some users and not others.

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#2815577 19-Nov-2021 09:54

Ahh, so that's why my Outlook is 'rounder' now! It happened when I did a "/resetnavpane" while trying to fix something else (my calendars now appear in random order whenever I restart Outlook...)

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#2815587 19-Nov-2021 10:15

Behodar:

Ahh, so that's why my Outlook is 'rounder' now! It happened when I did a "/resetnavpane" while trying to fix something else (my calendars now appear in random order whenever I restart Outlook...)

It would have happened anyway - it wasn't caused by /resetnavpane.

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Paul1977

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#2815609 19-Nov-2021 10:29

Next question... how can I change it on users that haven't had it auto-enabled? I just checked someone else's and they don't have the little megaphone icon?

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#2815612 19-Nov-2021 10:39

tanivula:

Yeah, I noticed this too yesterday. You can go back to the 'old look' I believe by clicking on the 'megaphone' type icon on the top right and disable it. The icon seems to not show up in Outlook, but does is Word/Excel.

OMG! Thanks for the tip - it was driving me nuts.