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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 don't have the option of 'sort folders' in the new outlook, and the roll out with the update seems to be not available to me here in Australia.
The change they implemented was the DELETION of a core feature in a mission critical product that we are being herded into using. Stop acting like there is a lick of benevolence in them planning to restore that feature at some indeterminate date. I cannot even fathom the level of cognitive dissonance that it takes to expect a billion users to be grateful for Microsoft's multi-year quest to add (at our request? as if we came up with something new?) the ability to organize folders. Imagine if the next Windows update removed the ability to use a mouse and forced you to talk to an AI or use a touchscreen, and then they put "mouse!" on a five-year restoration plan. I can just imagine your shilling about how they're listening to us and giving us the features we want.
Maybe as an update and to repeat myself from December - this feature is still in rollout:
Actually here is a description how the setting will look like in OWA and the new Outlook.
I would also likely know why it takes so long to deploy this setting but Microsoft will have their plans. Stop complaining about it and check for updates on the road map. They heard you and implemented a change - be happy about that :-)
Bumping this again!
IMy newly added folder is somewhere between a and b but starts with a T - how am I supposed to find it to move messages there?!