I noticed that there are a lot more color labels in Planner and picked the brighter colors that are lower in the drop-down list. When I use "Group By Labels" to view my planner according to these color labels, my tasks are listed way to the right end side of the board, with a bunch of empty color label columns I didn't use.I tried re-ordering and deleting those un-used color labels but I can't seem to find the features.This really defeats the purpose of adding all the new labels...

This is as ridiculous as it is true! This makes the entire function worth nothing!

I've just spent 30 minutes searching for an answer to this question. This is exactly what we need. Please make it possible to hide unused label columns or maybe adopt the same approach as Categories in Outlook calendar where you can define both the name and the colour for each category.

davidpoon. Realy boring. I have the same demand: reorder or delete unused labels but.. it's not possible... Microsoft lookinbg at the big elephants and forget the ants who really do their job.

I agree this needs to be incorporated - deleting/hiding/re-ordering labels. This is a pain point especially when I want to "Group by Labels". If the colour I chose is not one of the first few, we have to scroll through all the other unused colours to find what we need.I understand voting for changes is what's needed for things to be done - is there already a request for this to change that we can vote on?

But it should be! That's exactly the point we're talking about here... 😉

Can I delete or reorder the un-used labels in Planner?

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BruceTW
Brass Contributor
Oct 10, 2021
I've just spent 30 minutes searching for an answer to this question. This is exactly what we need. Please make it possible to hide unused label columns or maybe adopt the same approach as Categories in Outlook calendar where you can define both the name and the colour for each category.
EVSivier
Copper Contributor
Oct 06, 2021
davidpoon. Realy boring. I have the same demand: reorder or delete unused labels but.. it's not possible... Microsoft lookinbg at the big elephants and forget the ants who really do their job.
SanthoshB1
Bronze Contributor
Aug 05, 2021
It is not possible to reorder the columns except for the Group by Buckets.
- davidpoon
  Iron Contributor
  Feb 04, 2022
  Thanks Santhosh Balakrishnan for confirming this. Is there a workaround? Have you asked Microsoft if they have a roadmap to fix this UX problem?
  - SanthoshB1
    Bronze Contributor
    Feb 10, 2022
    davidpoon Re-order labels is not possible in Planner as of now.
- magub
  Brass Contributor
  Oct 05, 2021
  This is as ridiculous as it is true! This makes the entire function worth nothing!

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Can I delete or reorder the un-used labels in Planner?

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