
Note: Touch Mode is a global Office application setting.

The hovering actions have been removed since you can’t hover with your finger to trigger commands A longer finger press is interpreted as a click with the right mouse button (for a right handed mouse).Įxtra Tip: When you always have the Ribbon minimized, Touch Mode gives you easy access to the most common commands without affecting much else. This is all to optimize for Touch input as fingers tend to be a bit bigger and less precise than a mouse pointer or cursor.

The vertical “Quick Commands” bar on the right side of the Reading Pane is part of the Touch Mode feature of Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016. Is there any way to get this vertical bar with Quick Commands back? I could add them to the Quick Access Toolbar but I’d rather have them on the right, next to the message. This was very useful to me as I have the Ribbon minimized as it takes up too much of my vertical viewing space. In Outlook 2013, I had this vertical list of “Quick Commands” on the right side of the Reading Pane which allowed me to Delete, Reply to or Move a message and various other things. I just upgraded to Outlook 2016 and I seem to be missing something that I really liked in Outlook 2013.
