Navigation Pane is on the left instead of the bottom of the Folder List

After an update of Office, Outlook now displays the navigation buttons for Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, etc.

on the left side next to the Folder List.

These Navigation buttons used to be displayed within the Folder List at the bottom.

Move the Navigation & App Bar with Coming Soon

To move the Navigation & App Bar between the left side of the Folder List and within the Folder List, you can

no longer use the Coming Soon toggle in the top right corner of Outlook.

As this feature has become the new default, the Coming Soon toggle is now controlling a different new feature

or is no longer available to you at all.

You can access this toggle:

NOTE: Be aware that this also removes the ability to get the full Microsoft To-Do app experience within Outlook.

For Advance Users: How to move Outlook navigation toolbar from side to bottom

Step 1: Right-click Start > Run > regedit

Step 2: Navigate to the following registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Office > 16.0 > Common > ExperimentEcs > Overrides

Locate the ‘Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Hub.HubBar’ string value and set it to ‘false’. Then click OK and restart Outlook to check if it works.

Step 3: If the string “Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Hub.HubBar” doesn’t exist, create it by right-clicking on Overrides in the left pane

and selecting New > String Value then Paste “Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Hub.HubBar” in the new entry that appears in the right pane

Step 4: Double-click the new name

Step 5: Enter “False” in the Value data field and Click OK

Step 6: Close and restart Outlook