Remove Search Bar from Word, Excel, PowerPoint

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The location of the search bar in Microsoft 365 Word, Excel and PowerPoint often makes simply clicking and dragging the application windows difficult, at least for me. Many times I end up click within the search field instead of the tiny space between for the drag and drop operation.

This article will show you what setting to adjust to hide the Search Bar from the Word, Excel and PowerPoint title bar. Note, this will not actually remove the Search bar. Rather, it will simply shrink or collapse it down to just a magnifying glass icon. You can also press Alt+Q to bring up the full search bar or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F to navigate and search through your document.

Regarding Outlook 365; As of this post (2023 October), it is not possible to collapse or shrink the search box (which is used to search email) in Outlook 365, Outlook and Word are two different applications and some features are not the same.

 

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Disable Outlook Roaming Signatures Feature

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This article covers a recent update from Microsoft for Outlook on Windows regarding the synchronizing of roaming email signatures. Read the full announcement regarding Outlook Roaming Signatures from Microsoft’s Support Website.

 

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Turn off Outlook Thread or Conversation View

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The Microsoft Outlook app for mobile devices organizes emails by thread by default.

Organizing emails by thread arranges your messages into conversational threads based on the subject of the emails. In short, it combines messages with matching subject lines into one email.

Some users find this feature convenient, others find it difficult to locate emails quickly as it automatically collapses the content into a conversational thread. As a result, some users find that they end up missing important messages.

Likely we can quickly and easily change this option and revert back to the traditional way of handling emails. This article will show you how to turn off the organize emails by thread option in Outlook on mobile.

 

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Hide Favorites from Sidebar on Outlook.Live.com

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There is no official setting to hide of the “Favorites” folder section from the sidebar on outlook.live.com.

  • Note there is a setting one for the desktop Outlook app to hide Favorites: View > Folder Pane > Favorites (uncheck)

However, hiding the Favorites folder section on the online version may be quickly and easily accomplished by simply removing all nested sub folders from the Favorites folder section.

To remove a sub folder from the Favorites folder section simply right mouse click on any sub folder and select “Remove from Favorites“.

 

 

Once all sub folders have been removed the Favorites folder section the entire Favorites section should automatically be hidden.

Conclusion

As always, I welcome your thoughts, questions or suggestions on my article on how to remove or hide the Favorites folder from the Outlook.Live.com sidebar.

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Let me know if you found any errors within my article or if I may further assist you by answering any additional questions you may have.

 

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Changing Microsoft Outlook OST File Location

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Changing the location of a Microsoft Outlook Exchange offline cache data file, those ending with a file extension of “.OST”,  is not as straight forward as changing the file location of an Outlook “.PST” file. However, it is possible and this article will cover how to do so.

The easiest way to change the directory where the Outlook OST file is located is to set the “ForceOSTPath” registry key. However, you need to set that key before you add the email account to your profile. Not to worry if the account has already been added. Simply remove the account and add it back after setting the ForceOSTPath registry key.

 

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