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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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Can this feature be added ASAP! This is a critical functionality that no longer exists. Want to organize my email into folders and arrange priority folders or dated folders on top. Current situation is unusable. Return this feature please.
Good question. Seems Microsoft (all the tech companies) they just don't care or have too many things to fix so they ask us to bump stuff and then we must w8 for +years until even the smallest and most basic issues are even looked at. It's just crazy.
Bumping for this crucial feature
It is really unbelievable that we're reaching almost a whole year since this thread started, and we're still unable to manually sort our folders in the "New" Outlook, not to mention the "Favourites" alternative we were given is just useless, it doesn't make any sense at all.
This is what happens when IT does the SOFT launch (aka Preview or Agile MVP).
Minimum Viable Product is so minimal. ...
Think about how many times we all lose productivity, because some marketing department decided they needed to change things to justify their existence. It's like we are part of their experiment or unwanted survey.
It's bad enough when they change the entire ribbon on some of these apps .. hours lost, but in the past at least it seemed like the basic smart stuff was in the release, you just had to figure out where they put the setup for it.
6 months you guys have been on this. So far work hasn't switched us to it.
Another thing I hate and I'm sure its to make the desktop version so mobile friendly, but the new outlook, everything is too big. The calendar preview on the right could be about 4 font sizes smaller for the desktop browsers.
Well I'll believe this change when I see it. Even if they took the drag off the main interface and had it in a tree option setup like we have to do to Word/Excel to get it tweaked like we like it.
.... Keep this thread alive until it's fixed.
Frank