New outlook - order of email accounts

If you only have TWO accounts..
This "answer" has been repeated 1000 times in the thread.
It's clear by now that there's a drag and drop issue...
Please don't keep offering this as the Holy Grail...
If you have three, four of five accounts (as I do..) This is a hopeless and repeated, and repeated, and repeated was of time...

It's annoying you can't drag and drop but I did work around this by removing my accounts, and adding them back in in the order I wanted them to appear.

The only downside is that I have one account now that Outlook says is already included (but it's not visible) - ironically it's my personal @outlook.com email address that I really only use for licensing, but funny that it won't let me add that one back in to the Outlook client. I don't have that problem in Outlook for iPhone, so am not sweating it.

This only works if you have less than three accounts under the new version of Outlook. Now, after the forced upgrading to v. 1.2025.416.400 (Production) there is no fix for this yet. Since I have seven email accounts total that I manage, the new version won't allow for the preferred email accounts in the Accounts pane to be sorted in the way that I wish for them to be sorted. This is why I eventually downgraded back to the old version Outlook as well.

In case you're wondering if Microsoft is forcing an upgrade here is an article that proves that they are: https://undercodenews.com/microsofts-new-outlook-app-a-forced-upgrade-with-major-flaws/

Unfortunately, until anti-trust laws are expanded to better manage Microsoft as a monopoly they, according to basic Economics, are going to act like a monopoly.

!!!!!SHAMELESS POLITICAL PLUG!!!!!: If voters would do as our forefathers intended for us to do and educate themselves on the issues and vote the candidates character and instead of on what "seems good" from an uneducated perspective or on how "cool or "awesome" a candidate seems things like this would be a lot less likely to happen.

Another option is to double click on the account within the navigation pane, then go to manage accounts, then it will show you a list of all your accounts. You can then click into each account and choose as "primary account" which will kick it to the top. If you only have 2 accounts then your problem is solved on the first go around. If you have more than two accounts then you would need to pick "primary account" in reverse order for how you want them to appear. Repeat until the last account you choose is going to be the one on top.