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My Windows Outlook 365 menu bar used to look something like this:

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As of yesterday, all of a sudden, it has started to look like this:

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I have no idea what I did, or even if I did anything, but the icons in the menu bar have all changed. I've tried changing the Outlook theme. I've spent ~1 hour searching on Google. What happened and is it possible to change it back?

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Reset to default
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Your ribbon icons have a new look

That's the title of a recent Microsoft article relating to Office Insider versions of Office 365, which consists of exactly enough information to fit in one picture:

New ribbon icons

Since this is an Office Insiders feature, you might be able to leave the program to revert back to the old UI, however it might take a reinstall to force that.

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  • I did so much searching but apparently I didn't use the right keywords but I didn't find anything like this. It is tough to search for help on Microsoft products.
    – Mark Cramer
    Oct 5, 2018 at 1:10
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Disable updates, then run the following command in an elevated command prompt:

cd "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun"
officec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.10730.20102
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    Welcome to Super User. This answer could be much improved if you included some explanation of what this does and how that will solve OP's issue.
    – Worthwelle
    Oct 17, 2018 at 16:56
  • My guess is that this is a 'downgrade' to a previous version and then disabling updates will prevent it from upgrading once again. If the ribbon icons were super-important I might do something a bit drastic like this, but now I've grown used to them. Crazy, no? Thanks for the help.
    – Mark Cramer
    Oct 17, 2018 at 21:40
  • Looks like its implement on the Office 365. See here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365/…
    – StackBuck
    Jul 18, 2019 at 9:58

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