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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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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
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!
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I saw the ability on my home machine, but so far it hasn't been available on my work computer.
Waiting ...
In new Outlook, select Mail, then the View tab on the ribbon, then Folder Pane.
There should be (or will be) three options:
Change the order of folders in the Folder Pane in Outlook
Yeah this is also working for me now on my work computer - hooray! Hopefully they are gradually rolling this out to everyone now, and hopefully they won't revert the change. They did introduce this fix before, then removed it again (I guess something went wrong). But yeah, as it CURRENTLY stands, I can indeed manually sort my folders once again in New Outlook. Thank goodness!