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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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Yes, I'm having the same difficulty. What I've been doing is adding "A", "AA" "AAA", etc. in front of the folders I want to see at the top of the list. Numbers work as well.
Er, whatever problem I thought I was encountering, appears to have been fixed or was an illusion.
I swear that when I added folders typified by the x suffix, under 2024, in new Outlook, they did not sort rationally, they now do.
My apologies to Microsoft if I was deranged, and my congratulations and gratitude if I wasn't!
AH! Hang on. What happens if I change a folder? Still good!
On this basis I'm moving to new Outlook.
Regards,
Martin
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Why on earth MS insist on removing perfectly sensible features in so called NEW software is a mystery. Windows 11 right click File Explorer menu is still inferior to the Windows 10 version and requires two steps to delete a file unless you add a key to the registry to sort the problem out. And we STILL don't have the option to sort Outlook folders in the order WE want after a year?. We pay MS for this software so how about giving us what WE need and not what your developers, who clearly don't use the software they produce for productivity, insist of foisting upon us?
October 2024, I still cannot sort folders