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

Anonymous
2024-03-26T09:30:50+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-04-24T15:52:47+00:00

    Another annoying this is that we cannot copy an attachment and paste it into a new email.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-05-02T13:12:09+00:00

    Two things that make 'new outlook' a deal breaker for me (and they were the first things I tried because I use them all the time).

    1. a selected item in the inbox does not keep focus when I change the sort from received date to send-from. I like to be able to select an email and change the sort so that I can easily see eveerything from that sender. Instead the focus was removed so that my inbox just restorted and left my view at the top, looking at a sender that starts with "1".
    2. Related to the above: when I sort by sender and start typing, it doesn't jump to that sender like it always has.

    The new outlook looks nice, please let me know when you fix these very functional features that I'm sure many of your users depend on to be effective.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-05-20T11:19:59+00:00

    I am fedup by scorrling to search, do we have the solution now?

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-06-03T04:19:15+00:00

    It's June now. Do we have a solution yet to this. I recently started using new Outlook but cannot see this enhancement. Appreciate if this can be addressed quickly.

    Thanks !

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-06-05T13:49:28+00:00

    The "New" Outlook is just awful.

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