My subfolders in the new outlook seem to be sorted by date of change/creation. How can I sort them in alphabetical order?

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Hi, Priya2024

Good day!

Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are glad to assist you.

According to your description, to sort your subfolders in alphabetical order in the new Outlook for Windows, would you like to try following steps and see if it can make any differences:

1. Open Outlook and go to your mailbox folder list.
2. Right-click on the parent folder that contains the subfolders you want to sort.
3. Select "Sort Subfolders A-Z" from the context menu.
4. Your subfolders will now be sorted in alphabetical order.

If you want to sort them in reverse alphabetical order, you can select "Sort Subfolders Z-A" instead.

Thanks for your attempts and looking forward to your new updates.

Hope you all the best!

Alex | Microsoft Community Moderator.

I don't have "sort subfolders". All new folders are being added at the top, above "inbox". Not only that, but if I search for them by name, they do not show up.

this is not an option in my Outlook version, I right click on the parent folder, but there is no option to sort

Hi Squarefirejack,

Would the path to the subfolder you want to restrict the A-Z sort would be username@microsoft.com > 20205 > subfolder 1, subfolder 2, etc or Inbox > 2025 > subfolder 1, subfolder 2, etc? I am not sure it would matter from a solution perspective, just curious as I am comparing to how I have my folders configured.

Have you used the Feedback feature in Outlook (new or old)? Your feedback will go directly to the product team. If you have not left feedback yet, I would highly recommend adding your feedback as "Make a suggestion".

Steve

Right click on sub folders to sub sort used to work but it hasn't done for several months when the option disappeared.