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I am trying the New Outlook. I used to be able to sort my inbox by column (FROM) and then type in a letter and quickly get to all emails from people starting with that letter. For me that was a quick way to navigate my emails. It does not seem to work like that now. Is there a setting that I am missing or did Microsoft take that out in the new version? I understand that the search bar can be used and filters can be used, but I want the one letter search functionality that I have been using.
Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Hello Bruce Harrington1,
Thank you for posting to the Microsoft Community.
After thorough research and consultations, it has been concluded that the feature you are inquiring about is not yet available in the new Outlook. However, thank you so much for bringing this to our attention, your suggestion is constructive and I believe it could make the use of Outlook even better. We will surely raise your concerns with our Product Development Team and hopefully, this can be included in future updates. Please note new Outlook is still in active development, right now fourteen features are in development and seven more have started to be rolled out. To check for upcoming features you can check Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365.
In the meantime, we sincerely recommend you post your concern as an idea to our Outlook in-app feedback site Contact support and provide feedback within the new Outlook for Windows - Microsoft Support
Our Product Development Team is committed to enhancing the customer experience by continually examining suggestions to include in the design and development of future product upgrades based on your suggestions. Hopefully, your suggestion will help many users in the future.
Your kind understanding is highly appreciated. I appreciate your cooperation.
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Same query as above - would like to sort emails quickly by hitting the first letter of the senders name. Annoying that this is not available as it was my 'go-to' for searching emails, especially when on a minimal inbox view. Often the main thing you can recall about an email is who it was from! so this is the major search function.
Please can this be added asap!
Would also be good to combine accounts into a single inbox (as can be done on the phone).
Agree, I want to use the new outlook but I rely on this feature too much. Cmon!
Can't agree more....was looking into this as well and came across this forum page.
Back to the old outlook I guess.