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How to change the order of email accounts in Outlook?

Author Siluvia Last modified

By default, Outlook sorts all email accounts with A to Z in the Navigation Pane except the default email account locates on the top of all accounts. If you want to change the order of email accounts in Outlook Navigation Pane, the dragging method is the priority for you. In this article, we will show you how to change the order of email accounts in Outlook with dragging method in Outlook.

Change the order of email accounts in Outlook"


Change the order of email accounts in Outlook

Please do as follows to change the order of email accounts in Outlook.

1. For easily dragging the email accounts to the accurate place, please collapse all email accounts to make the "Navigation Pane" clean. See screenshot:

the Navigation Pane

2. Click on an email account which you want to change its order in the "Navigation Pane", then drag it to the place you like. In this case, I drag the “zxm@test.com” account to the top of all accounts. See screenshot:

drag the “zxm@test.com” account to the top of all accounts

3. Then you can see the accounts order have been changes as follow screenshot shows.

the accounts order has been changes

Keep dragging the accounts until they are locating on the accurate place you like.


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