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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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This is a fundamental function of managing my inbox, being able to quickly identify emails from a sender. this isn't a 'new' feature.
Is there any plan to reinstate this across the new outlook?
great point -- I'm switching back too and providing feedback as to why. They pop up a box to ask why so hopefully they will care about adding this feature if we stop using New Outlook.
From the looks of the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, it appears that MS is more concerned with adding Copilot features than they are about adding widely used functionality to bring the new Outlook to feature parity with the old version.
So the ones developing the software are clearly not using Outlook themselves. This is the most basic function myself and so many of my colleagues use daily.
Guys at Microsoft pay attention to this man. I hope your are smarter to realize this feature is how much helpful.