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Wednesday, August 28, 2013 6:19 PM | 6 votes
Hey, I just installed outlook 2013 on my windows 8. It works so far so good in last 2 hours...However how can I hide/remove the New Email button above favorite group in outlook (The button changes to New Appointment if switch from email to calendar inside outlook).
All replies (14)
Thursday, August 29, 2013 8:14 AM ✅Answered
Hi,
It can't hide/remove by design. Also we'd strong suggest you don't hide/remove it.
Although the design meets the most users' needs, however it is still not perfect. Please be assured that any improvements in the product are based on users' requirements. Our developers strive to capture Microsoft users' ideas and are working hard to create a more powerful and easy-to-use product.
In addition, you could click button marked with red color like below:
And then select "Show Tabs and Commands" marked with orange color.
It will be convenient for your to call those commands.
Karen Hu
TechNet Community Support
Monday, March 17, 2014 2:20 AM | 4 votes
I agree it is a pain. It is too large and reduces the space in the column of folders, necessitating scrolling down.
Really, who doesn't know where their "New email" button is? I use just logos to keep everything small. My purpose with email is to either read email or write an email. Thus, I want as much open space on the page as possible.
Monday, March 17, 2014 11:32 AM | 1 vote
... Thus, I want as much open space on the page as possible.
Glad someone else also has this bad habit :)
Saturday, May 10, 2014 3:15 PM | 1 vote
Even worst (if possible) on localized Outlook!
The name is TOO big and goes outside the bar. Please add an option to remove this useless button! New mail is already on quick access bar, it's enought!
Paolo
Thursday, October 1, 2015 8:02 PM | 12 votes
This site came out first in the search for the same problem. Playing with the suggestion in previous reply, I wanted to share what worked for me.
- The "New Email" button appears just below the "FILE" tab.
- Click the tab icon on the top right of the Outlook main panel (see picture below).
- Click "Auto-hide Ribbon".
- Then click "Show Tabs and Commands".
- The "New Email" button disappeared.
Hope this works for you too.
Thursday, November 19, 2015 4:20 PM | 5 votes
> It can't hide/remove by design. Also we'd strong suggest you don't hide/remove it.
I hope you don't mind my saying this (although I'm sure you will), but this is one of the dumbest replies I've ever seen. The button is completely redundant; it performs no useful function, and it gets in the way. If I want to create a new email, all I have to do is use the menu (pardon me, the Ribbon) to create a new one. <Alt><H><N> (or a mouse click if I'm key-phobic). And that's the way I always create a new email; I have never once clicked on this button. And for that matter, most of the emails I generate are not brand new ones, they are replies to ones I've received. So if I needed a button to do accomplish a frequently performed action, it wouldn't be that one.
I realize that there may be users who prefer the mouse, and for some reason prefer to click on this cutesy button rather than use the Ribbon. But there are also users like me, and like the original poster, who don't, and for whom the button just takes up space on the screen that we'd rather devote to something else. Why, of all the widgets in Outlook, is this the only one that we can't get rid of? (Ok, there is another set of worthless widgets I can't get rid of: the Reply/Reply All/Forward/IM buttons at the top of each email in my preview pane. I have never ever clicked on any of those, either, and they waste even more space.)
All we users are asking for is some control over the UI; the ability to hide widgets we don't need and never use. The hubris of suggesting that we shouldn't hide/remove this button is astounding.
> Please be assured that any improvements in the product are based on users' requirements. Our developers strive to capture Microsoft users' ideas and are working hard to create a more powerful and easy-to-use product.
That is a relief. Then I completely expect that the next version of Outlook will incorporate the ability for users to hide widgits we don't need/want, specifically including this "New Email" button, and the Reply/Reply All/Forward/IM buttons. And I furthermore complete expect that the next version of Microsoft Office will restore some sensible color schemes (beyond white/off white/ slight more off white), so we can tell at a glance whether an Office app has keyboard focus, and so our eyes don't water. This is of course a problem with the current and previous version of Office that has generated a great deal of bad press for Microsoft on the blogosphere, and so I'm certain you'll be fixing it. (And I'm sure the fact that the color scheme hasn't been fixed already is just an oversight, since you say Microsoft takes into account users' ideas.)
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 3:58 PM | 3 votes
I would like to agree with mcswell2. The answer provided here is to STFU and drink your koolaid. They obviously are fine with it as it is since it still is the same in Outlook 2016. But we can sill try to let them know we don't like it.
The unfortunate answer to the OP is you have to deal with it. It's not a huge deal and I can get by ignoring it. But every once and a while I look at that waste of space and do some searches to see if anyone has a work around yet... Nope.
Friday, January 15, 2016 5:23 PM | 2 votes
I agree as well, the answer that "this feature is great even if you don't want it - so suck it up" is not really very user-friendly. Perhaps that wasn't the intent in the answer, but that's the message that the answer sent the readers.
I am finding that Microsoft has little concept of "precious screen real estate". They add buttons, ribbons, bars, sidebars, flags, flyovers, and all sorts of useless crap to every interface - as though having an extra way to do some uncommon task is automatically beneficial. Here are a few other examples of 'extra' crap that I find - just in looking at the reading pane on my current Outlook:
1) The extra "New Email" button (with extra large font) above the folders (the issue we've been discussing here).
2) The extra "delete" button added to the columns of my email list (apparently hard-coded, and outside of the normal "columns" controls).
3) the "touch" buttons added to the side of my email list (thankfully I can get rid of these).
4) The "All / Unread" buttons above my email list (this is actually quite useful, but why does it have to take up a whole row?).
5) The 1/8 inch gap when you have the reading pane below the email list - for no apparent reason
6) The "Search" widget (in the same line as the "All / Unread" buttons - but this used to be in the wasted space to the right of the ribbon tabs - where it added not extra space.
7) The status bar at the bottom of the window - basically showing the same info available elsewhere on the same screen. (Also, it includes the "zoom" slider - which for some inexplicable reason won't allow me to set a default zoom level - aside from just 100% - which coupled with the default tiny font for emails is really annoying.)
So, if Microsoft is _really_ listening to their customers - listen to me - Get someone to design your UI that cares about screen real estate and will try to stop wasting all of my monitor on useless duplicate buttons/rows/columns/white space so I can efficiently use the monitor that I bought.
Monday, June 20, 2016 9:05 AM
Thank you CACAP.
That worked for me.
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 9:25 AM
That worked for me as well. Lucky us we do have this workaround since having that big icon was totally useless for me.
Monday, January 1, 2018 5:35 AM
it worked! then why did this Microsoft persons say that it cannot be changed by design?
Friday, January 26, 2018 7:46 PM | 1 vote
No you guys, that is NOT a solution, and it did not "work". You just fully maximized the "Ribbon", "Tabs", and "Commands" bars at the top. So sure, congratulations, you just managed to get back your 1/2-inch of real estate that we're all complaining about... by trading it for 2 inches of equally-useless real estate none of us wanted. (Okay, so I do use the Command bar, where you get to customize the small icons in a single, narrow bar, as I suspect many other real estate-interested posters do, too, but that's it.) This was NOT a solution.
Monday, December 17, 2018 4:49 PM
This bad UI still persists in Outlook 2019. If this "feature" was added, it should have been done so with the ability for users to turn it off. Whoever decided to implement this without allowing it to be turned off simply does not understand how Microsoft's customers utilize their products. Screen real estate for many users is a premium, and many know how to use basic keyboard functions, like CTRL-N for a new email message. Poor, poor design.
Wednesday, July 31, 2019 8:49 AM
Another frustrated Outlook 3650 Pro Plus user here.
I manage a user and a shared mailbox. Therefore i want as much real estate space in the Mail left hand column as possible.
I want to hide the over sized New Email button completely, as i create mail via either right mouse click on the Outlook icon in the system tray, aor by adding a quick access icon.
I'd also like to have the option to remove the bin icon from the email preview window, next to the flag icon.