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New outlook - order of email accounts
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I have multiple email accounts linked to my outlook login, some for work, volunteering and some personal for me and family.
Since 'upgrading' to the new version, I have loads of 'favourites' which I never use and the order of the accounts is not how I want them. I can see how to change your primary but not how to sort the list to change the order top to bottom. Also can I remove the favourites as I don't use them, or even hide?
Thanks
Bill
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Anonymous
2025-04-14T02:38:27+00:00 -
Anonymous
2025-03-06T17:36:29+00:00 It just doesn't - new Outlook is very pretty but not very good.
The advice given in George's post from 2023 refers to the behaviour of classic Outlook ...
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Anonymous
2025-03-06T16:54:41+00:00 New outlook doesn't let me select the account when I click on the left arrow!
What would cause this?
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Anonymous
2025-03-03T08:39:23+00:00 If M$ cared they'd have done something to resolve the issue within the past two years - it's hardly rocket science.
The is no 'solution' - there is an ugly workaround that involves removing and readding accounts in the order we want. That said, it's not too hard - I've done it on one device but have yet to do so on the other.
New Outlook is NOT just a facelift of 'classic' Outlook - it's a reimplementation of a subset of the functionality provided by classic Outlook. And that was fine - Microsoft implied that the missing functionality would be added at a later date and, meanwhile we could continue to use classic Outlook instead. Last week they removed that as an option for me.
So, I am a rather unhappy customer that sees M$ as a rather uncaring company ...
As you say, sheesh!
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Anonymous
2025-03-03T06:17:57+00:00 How do you know they don't care? Sheesh people
There is a solution. They didn't include it explicitly in the ew outlook but it's not that hard, and New Outlook is just a facelift. You too can do this!