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Hi All
I'm loving the new Outlook, however I'm having real difficulty manually sorting my email folders.
Clicking & dragging the folder, only allows me to drop the folder INTO another folder, but doesn't allow me to drop it in between other folders (meaning I cannot re-arrange / sort the folders manually).
Right clicking the folder and clicking "Move", again only allows me to move the folder INTO another folder. There is no "move up or down" option unfortunately.
It is currently sorting my folders in alphabetical order, but I wish to change this. I have been through all the settings and cannot find anywhere I can manually sort my email folders.
Can anyone assist?
Thank you
Thomas
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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I can agree with everyone that this function is needed ASAP for people with many folders. Takes time to find the right folder as it is now. Otherwise I like the new Outlook. Please find a solution for this
thanks
//Fredrik
Hello @microsoft,
We are a lot of people that already took the time to post here to kind of letting you know that this is very important to us, can you imagine how many people are currently struggling with this and will not even consider taking some time to create a post to get feedback from you? Change your old ways be more proactive with your products. How is it possible that a feature like organizing folders gets removed completely instead of getting some improvements to the functionality that we already had before? Stop embarrassing yourselves and come up with a real solution to this problem please.
Kind Regards,
Please make this a priority, it's a basic functionality :)
We're off to buy an Apple, at the wonderful Apple store!
Wicked! LOLOL
I have been searching for an answer to this problem when I stumbled upon this support article which suggests it is possible to re-order mail folders in the new Outlook - Change the order of folders in the Folder Pane in Outlook - Microsoft Support
The "Custom folder order" doesn't exist, of course, so not only is there a basic function missing in new Outlook, but the support information is incorrect!