2017-10-09 They switched from Outlook 2007 to Outlook 2016 these days at work. I know that version changes introduce different optics and may force habit changes. I know there'll likely be a time of suffering until you adapt to the new version. I suffer from it like all the other users out there, but, as a developer myself, I understand the need for changes. Yet, what I don't understand and hopefully never will are changes that reduce the productivity. Shouldn't be the main purpose of new versions be to improve the productivity? (Only reduced by necessary security improvements.) It should! I took half an hour to click through the various options menus to adjust the new layout to my established working model -- that's an acceptable task. What I suffer from, however: The layout is targetted to users that get and write one or two messages a day or so. The working needs of power users and business users (which I thought are the main target users of Outlook) are ignored. The only usable layout is the three column one, which I don't want to use, as I need to see the desktop besides the Outlook window. Hence I put the message view below the message list. But it's all wasted space in the message header display (and the badly chosen minimization filter) ... I have a 24" or so screen -- it doesn't suffice. The folder view does not show half the folders I use. And furthermore, my eyes hurt from the missing contrasts and separations. Without optical guides for the eyes, they wander over the page and try to find something to hold on, but it's all nice and beautiful and equal, without edges to grip and lines to break it into smaller pieces. ... eventually, we'll die from the beauty! One guy on the web got it to the point: As usual for users of Microsoft Office: The design looks nice, but it is hampering effective work. [0] Just, that's not a Microsoft Office problem alone, it is a prob- lem of the whole decade in GUI design. Normally I would save myself by retreating into the Unix world, where the right goals are strived for. But at the job, I cannot replace Microsoft Office. I was able to find my peace with the old Outlook version, and although it sucked in appropriate email- ing to a great deal, I got along with it. Now it's another step down and more uglyness to accept ... [0] https://answers.microsoft.com/en- us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_winother/outlook-2016- change-font-size-in-folder-pane/5611fd10-a4a1-4a4f-91ca- fd739d06d5cd http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke