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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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This would indeed be very useful and it doesn't seem to be implemented yet as of may 2024
It is really bothersome that this could be a hotfix, however is not done. This issue has been raised for almost one year now (comments here) and this still not fixed. Very disappointing .
I'm also very disappointed that this issue has not been addressed yet. Also, copying attachments to add to a new email is also not possible!
Also it doesn't seem to be a setting to have all folders collapsed when you are moving messages to it's respective folder. You need to scroll through multiple folders and subfolders before finding the folder that you want. Very, very annoying.
What a frustrating change!!!!! I did figure out a work around that is working for me. I added all of the folders I needed to reorganize into my favorites. For some reason in the favorites menu, you can rearrange the folders like we used to. I added probably 40 folders with no issues. Hope that helps.