{"id":4093,"date":"2017-12-27T14:34:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T22:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2017-12-27T14:34:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T22:34:11","slug":"view-settings-menus-are-back-in-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/view-settings-menus-are-back-in-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"View Settings menus Are Back in Outlook!"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 27, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

in a previous blog<\/a> I had complained that Microsoft accidentally removed the View Settings menu from the right-click menu in the Outlook To-Do Bar task list in a new update to Windows Outlook 2016. That prevented MYN users from making the MYN task list configurations manually. I provided a workaround in that article, but not all readers of my book know that they can study my blog to see updates, and so quite a few readers were stuck when trying to configure MYN using my book.<\/p>\n

In fact, the View Settings menu was removed everywhere in Outlook, from email folders, task folders, and so on. And the button<\/em> equivalent of the View Settings menu was also removed from every place it once resided (usually on the View tab of various Outlook modules). It was frustrating to have such a major bug show up in a widely released version of Outlook, and a bug that affected so many of my readers.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m happy to say there is good news: In an update of Microsoft Office that I just received, Outlook has the View Settings menu and button restored to all of its previous locations. <\/strong><\/p>\n

What\u2019s interesting is this correction seems to have been added in a minor Office build update, not an entirely new monthly version release. I say that because I had version 1711 installed last month when the problem was there, and I still have version 1711 installed now and the problem has gone away. Apparently, I received a newer build of 1711 in\u00a0that recent Office update (see image below—latest 1711 build I received).<\/p>\n

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Anyway, it\u2019s good to see that Microsoft fixes their software problems. And, the problem was a bit of a blessing in disguise because it led to my finding a way to create and save view configurations in the To-Do Bar task list, as I reported in this article<\/a>. That is something I previously thought was impossible, and that capability provides a lot of utility to MYN users.<\/p>\n

So a good ending to this story.<\/p>\n

Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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