Outlook on the web – Update locations to message compose options

TL;DR:
Outlook on the web is updating where some message-compose options are located. These changes include the formatting bar and the ‘send’ and ‘discard’ buttons. Now due mid-January to mid-April 2023.

Details:
This update will create a similar experiences across web, classic and new Outlook for Windows:

• For all users – The formatting bar will be relocated to the top of the message compose window, similar to the common “ribbon” you see in other Microsoft apps
• For all users – When composing a new email message, the “Send”, “Discard”, and formatting bar will now be located at the top of the compose window
• For users with “newest on top” option – When you reply to a message, the “Send”, “Discard”, and formatting bar will be located at top of the compose window

Previously, those buttons and bar were located at the bottom of the message compose window.

Availability:
Due late September to mid-October 2022.
Now due mid-January to mid-February 2023.
Now due mid-January to mid-April 2023.

Related Links and references:
MC427760. 
MC501737.

Check status:
Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98114.

Page originally published:
12^th September 2022 and kept up to date.