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Can I delete or reorder the un-used labels in Planner?
davidpoon Hi, as you already know its not possible to reorder the labels, but you can remove empty ones from "Group by Labels", by clicking on the 3 dots on the right side of the label and using "rename". Remove the name of the label completely and press enter.
I hope this will help.
Cheers Alf
Thank you! Created an account just to like this comment 😄 I was renaming to the default names but never considered to just delete the name altogether!
- created an account here just to thank you. this works to reorder the labels.
when deleting all empty labels on the board, they are gone from the board. when you add a task and select the "add label" dropdown, the "deleted" labels are reintroduced as the original "Red", "Blue" etc. placeholder labels.
completely illogical from a ui/ux standpoint. not that i expected better from msft. This worked! Just rename labels and put nothing! Awesome. Thank you Redbully
gaynormorris - unfortunately it seems that this has now been 'fixed'. Removing the label text reverts it back to the default 😞
mrmdbarton
You should still be able to remove the label (and text). Do make sure to (re)move every task, completed or not, from this label.
I was setting up a new planner and was experiencing this issue as well. I followed your advice to rename the labels and removing the original label name while Grouping by Labels. The first good news is that the only labels that appeared where labels that I had already renamed. However if I want to remove a label I created in error, your solution worked! All of the labels still appear in the task dropdown but at least the grouping works.
Thank you!
