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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't believe this hasn't been resolved, over a year later. This is such a basic functionality it's insane there hasn't even been an update from the team.
Hi. This is a real problem. I sort by commercially critical date stamped folder, 'YYYYMMDD', prefix. When is this going to be fixed? It's over a year now.
Otherwise I'll have to revert to classic Outlook.
Regards,
Martin
Oh, my goodness. Why has this essential feature not been implemented? Over a year since the original post!
CLEARLY MS doesn't give a hoot about their users and only taking $$$.
Absolutely embarrassing that this a) wasn't included to begin with and b) hasn't been fixed in over a year. Completely, utterly, embarrassing. The only helpful advice in that page of text and pictures was "go back to old outlook," which speaks volumes about the state of a product that is aggressively pushed with daily popups and other unasked-for reminders. You know full well that literally millions of forum posts and feedback checkboxes are meaningless when compared to an ivory tower UI "expert" thinking that the basic feature we are used to clashes with their vision. This isn't a request for a new feature, it's not a suggestion for something creative, it's literally a reminder to you that the design team that you don't know, don't have any influence on, and yet are are paid to represent somehow dropped an idiotically basic element for managing folders. Your by-the-book chipper attitude and platitudes are patronizing and might be nice if somebody is asking for something new, but just add insult to injury when the product that we are forced to use (yes, forced, by the IT department that spends huge money on office 365) is deliberately broken. The amount of word-bending that you use to avoid acknowledging that there is problem and make it sound like a "cool idea" that would be super helpful to future users is masterful. I can only imagine how you would spin a bug that deletes all my email as a feature that didn't exist in old outlook, and how changing it would be a "neat suggestion" that I should give feedback on. Great.