Surely you can order your email accounts?

Question

Why on earth would they remove such a simple QOL feature? Setting a primary account just to have it first, whilst it seems to want to log me into everything microsoft is outrageous. Also how do you reward people for removing QOL features in your software. He's probably got a promotion in figuring out a small way to bend us over

Answer 1

Hi Daniel O'C,

I understand your frustration, as reordering email accounts should ideally be a simple display preference without requiring you to change the primary account.

Currently, New Outlook for Windows allows you to reorder folders, but it does not provide a separate option to rearrange the email accounts themselves. Setting an account as primary may place it at the top, but the primary account can also control certain app-wide settings, so this may not be a suitable workaround for everyone. Change the order of folders in the Folder Pane in Outlook

Please note that this is a user-to-user support forum. Moderators, contributors including external Microsoft employees cannot directly intervene in Microsoft product features or access back-end systems. Our role is limited to providing technical guidance on reported issues, requests, or ideas only.

I recommend submitting your suggestion through the Feedback Portal and requesting a separate drag-and-drop option to reorder accounts without changing the primary account.

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts.

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