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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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Just got the pop up in outlook for this feature ! didnt even have to run an updater or anything, just showed up for me. Freely re organizing my folders again! Woohoo!
Hi. Is New outlook still in the review phase?
Im really hoping the function allowing folder reordering is coming soon.
I do have them in the favorites tab in the order I like but I would like to be able to arrange all of my files in the order of my choosing.
Is that in the works?
Thanks. Shannon
Is this feature still not added? I will not switch to new Outlook before this is possible, I need to be able to sort the folders based need...
What a disaster that this menial feature is not in the new outlook. Costs real time having to look below an expanded archive folder to find the current things I care about.
This string was started in July of 2023.
It is now February of 2025.
Official Microsoft support webpage - Change the order of folders in the Folder Pane in Outlook - list steps that are still not available in "New Outlook".
Thirty pages of replies requesting this to be resolved, yet no apparent resolution to date.
What's the holdup?