How do I rearrange email accounts in the new Outlook?

Anonymous
2023-10-03T04:18:07+00:00

I want to know how to rearrange, move, the multiple accounts I have in Outlook. Simply move one from the top to the bottom and vice versa. What would seem like a very simple task. The accounts I have are two Microsoft accounts and one Gmail account. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. By the way this is the "New Outlook" so I've found you cant just click and drag the account like before. I'm guessing they require you to go back to school and get a masters in Computer Science to perform what should be a fairly simple task, Anyways, thank in advance for the help!

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-19T00:57:44+00:00

    Open the email app
    Click the 'cog' setting at bottom of screen
    Next to 'Email Accounts', tap the pencil icon
    It goes to a screen called setting and your email accounts are listed there
    Tap and drag the 2x horizontal lines beside each email account until you have placed them in the preferred position
    Back out and done

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-19T01:49:25+00:00

    There is no cog at the bottom of my screen. The only cog is on the upper right.
    There is nothing that says "Email account" the closest thing would be mail.
    There is no pencil icon
    There are no 2X horizontal lines that allow me to drop/drag or reorder accounts.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-13T01:18:05+00:00

    Click and hold on the inbox you want to move up to favorites and drag it up to its new location.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-14T15:16:25+00:00

    I have tried what you are suggesting and it does not work on my laptop. Also, I'm not trying to make "favorites", I want to reorder accounts.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-03-22T20:29:08+00:00

    I have been struggling with the same problem. Why make things hard??? Anyway, I reordered my email accounts by:

    1. opening my email account

    2.clicking on the cog near the top right of my screen

    1. choosing the email account I wanted at the top and clicked "manage"
    2. selecting that account as my "primary" account
    3. waiting for it to do its magic, following its instructions until its finished
    4. shutting email down and restarting it
    5. the account it wanted at the top is, in fact, at the top and opened

    Hope this helps.

    Why does each new and improved version have to be less user friendly and more complicated? What ever happened to

    "less is more"?

    Cheers from a snowy Toronto.

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