I am trying the New Outlook. I cant sort my inbox by typing a letter - am I missing a setting?

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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.

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2025-04-21T20:10:51+00:00

ditto ... crazy that they didn't have this in release.
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2025-04-25T13:51:42+00:00

This is really unfortunate this is not a feature. My productivity has dropped by half by not being able to do this. When will this be implemented?
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2025-04-28T17:06:01+00:00

I miss this function as well. I ditched the new outlook just because of this loss of functionality. I don't understand how a "new" app could take a step back in functionality. Wouldn't you take every great thing the classic app could do and improve on it, not remove it? You software engineers don't make sense sometimes.
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2025-05-16T20:11:56+00:00

please can we have an update on this?
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Anonymous

2025-05-19T13:08:14+00:00

We need this feature - it is making things very tricky!!!!
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