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Can I arrange emails in Outlook on my Android phone?
Rod-F I have the same issue and this is the only fix I've been able to do.
Delete and re-add the accounts in the order you want them to appear. When you re-add an account, it will appear at the bottom of the list.
I feel your pain, I have 5 different Microsoft email accounts on my phone so keeping track can be a nightmare!
This is a rather hacky fix but until press and hold functionality is added, might have to do!
I've discovered in the android app under settings on the right hand side opposite mail accounts there is a little pencil. Click this and it takes you to a page to rearrange the accounts by moving the handles on the right. Then click the tick in the top right. This reorders the accounts, though for how long I don't know.
I first set them up in the correct order putting 1, 2, 3 ... as the first part of the name but after 5 minutes number 1 had slipped to 4th for no apparent reason. I'm using it on Chromebook as the web version doesn't work.
- I would have totally been living in misery if I hadn't seen this.
Here's what I did:
Settings > Accounts
Used the pencil icon in top right as you mentioned to go editting mode
Editted order as needed.
Closed and restarted outlook on android.
My order was set and remained set until I added a new account later on.
for context, I am on outlook for android v4.2419.0(42419809) This worked for me, in the android app under settings on the right hand side opposite mail accounts there is a little pencil. Click this and it takes you to a page to rearrange the accounts by moving the handles on the right. Then click the tick in the top right.
- That worked, mzemlickcoxnet! Thank you!!
- Thanks very much, this worked flawlessly for me! In fact I'd been here previously but I missed the two horizontal lines for dragging the items around as normally they appear before an item's name rather than at the far right of the page.
NOTE: I would add a like to your post but blowed if I can find that either 😉 - Unfortunately this doesn't appear to be the same for the Android App on the phone (Ver 4.2123.1), I just tried. (The one on Chromebook is Ver 4.2121.2.) Also though mail is sent (well it appears in the sent folder) it isn't received in either version. Same problem with outlook on the web 😞
