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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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Exactly! This is my issue and I'm glad you posted this. I'm ok with the alphabetical sorting, I just need to get my new folders into the list!
Argh this is not the thread I wanted to find - I wanted to find the trick to this apparently simple thing... agree with all of you saying this is BASIC and VITAL and I can't believe it's still not in place after a very long time... back to old outlook I go
And I just went back to classic just because of this. I can't believe something as simple as moving folders around can be so difficult to implement.
Same here, actually the whole company +160 people. Not possible to work in New Outlook for us because of this and some other things that has not been implemented yet, It's just absolutely ridiculous.
And I just went back to classic just because of this. I can't believe something as simple as moving folders around can be so difficult to implement.
Why has this not been implemented? It's been almost a year since this was posted. There's absolutely no reason for you to just completely ignore all of our complaints and do whatever you want. Your product development team is clearly not committed to anything because nothing has changed.