Office 2019 - Contacts/People not displaying correctly

Sam,

You do know that you can get out of that View, the "People" View?

Click on the Ribbon display options icon near the right-hand end of the TitleBar in the top right-hand corner of the Outlook window [I can see it in your diagram, fourth icon from the right]
Show tabs & commands
Double-click in the TitleBar if the Tabs have not appeared automatically
Click on the View tab
Change View
Choose one of the other Views


All the best,
Denis

Sam Vimes said:

Reverting to an earlier version fixes the problem. Execute this command as an administrator:-

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\officec2rclient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.15601.20148

I have this issue as well. Does running the command to change the version make any other changes you're aware of?

Victek said:

I have this issue as well.

So don't select the People view. It's only this view that is a problem.

There's another discussion of the People view in Problem displaying contacts in Outlook 2016 desktop app - TenForums



Denis

Try3 said:

So don't select the People view. It's only this view that is a problem.

There's another discussion of the People view in Problem displaying contacts in Outlook 2016 desktop app - TenForums

I started the other discussion, and yes I get that I don't have to select the People view. The problem initially was not seeing how to get out of the People view once selected. That can be done by changing the width of the contacts list behind the frozen window until the other contacts views become accessible in the ribbon. This make things manageable, but it's inelegant and pretty shabby for what is supposed to be the industry standard in "Office" software.

Victek said:

The problem initially was not seeing how to get out of the People view once selected.

See post #2 above for another way of getting out of it.

Victek said:

it's inelegant and pretty shabby

Agreed.
So are other aspects of Outlook use these days. I don't think there is any consideration given to individual users during the design of changes let alone much testing to check that they've done what they intended to do.

Denis