Outlook sort by name, but can't jump to name

Anonymous
2023-05-16T15:40:26+00:00

I just tried the NEW outlook.

I can sort by names A-Z, but then I have to scroll to find the person.

The old outlook, I could just type the first letter and it would jump to that name.

Is there a setting in the new outlook that allows you to jump to the letter when typed?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-16T16:22:24+00:00

    Hi Jon Baker2,

    Good day.

    Hope you are doing well. Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

    According to your description, I will share some information with you, currently new Outlook for Windows experience is developing by our related product developer team. Therefore, you may need to use Support option via selecting Help menu under the new Outlook for Windows, this way, you may need to contact our app support team to submit your this situation directly to our product developer team. They can further investigate few things based on your submitted information. They can also develop some convenient options in new Outlook for Windows in future based on users' valuable suggestion and ideas. Our product developer team also need some suggestion from users side to improve new Outlook experience. Your feedback is very important for them.

    I will also share feedback portal URL so that you can submit your feedback directly to our product developer team: Microsoft Feedback portal

    I would really appreciate your kind cooperation and precious time.

    Sincerely,

    Darpan

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-22T19:46:09+00:00

    Did you find a workaround or solution?

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-07-20T12:50:41+00:00

    I found the fix, or at least for my situation.

    Right click on a column header, then view settings.

    Click on "other settings"

    Under "Other options" make sure to check "Use compact layout in widths smaller than"

    For me, this affected the ability to jump to a name (or subject if I sorted that column).

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-28T01:13:42+00:00

    I have this same issue. The "other settings" suggestion below is not visible for me. I only see "Change view" and "Density" options for the view settings. Changing between the view settings did not help.

    Being able to sort by letter - and then type the letter to quickly jump to that letter - is a big reason why I sort by name. Scrolling down until I get to a specific letter is frustrating.

    A workaround is to use the search function - but that can be very frustrating. This jump to a letter while sorted by name feature would be greatly appreciated.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-07-31T13:42:15+00:00

    I used this jump-to-letter function as well. Its quite frustrating this functionality has been removed.

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