"Drag and Drop" Email Messages into Group Inbox within Outlook
Also provide "drag and drop" functionality within Outlook. Sometimes a conversion will take place outside of the Group, but that conversation may be important to the Group. Have the function to "drag and drop" an email into the Group Inbox would be a great tool.
(This is already available if the Group Shared Mailbox is added to Outlook, but a few design changes will make this feature for user-friendly and available in the desktop client.)
Reid
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AdminMicrosoft 365 Groups Feedback
(Product Owner, Microsoft Office 365)
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Good news…drag and drop conversations into groups is available in Outlook Web and has shipped to Outlook Win32 desktop users on Current Channel as of 5/13/2020. More information can be found in the Tech Community discussion located here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-groups/new-drag-and-drop-conversations-into-groups/m-p/124722/page/6
50 comments
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Blake May
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Microsoft never seems to amaze me. IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO ALLOW ME TO "REMOVE BACK OUT OF GROUP MAILBOX VIA DRAG AND DROP (OR ANY OTHER WAY FOR THAT MATTER), DON'T MAKE IT SO FREAKIN EASY TO GET IT IN THERE. OR AT THE VERY LEAST, MAKE IT VERY CLEAR THAT "HEY FYI - WHEN YOU DRAG AN EMAIL MESSAGE FROM YOUR PERSONAL INBOX INTO A GROUP INBOX...EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE MADE THAT VERY VERY EASY, WE DO NOT ALLOW YOU TO EVER GET IT BACK OUT, AND BACK INTO YOUR PERSONAL INBOX.
WHAT A JOKE. DONT ALLOW ME TO DRAG INTO A GROUP SO DARN EASY....TO NEVER BE ABLE TO GET IT BACK OUT.
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Chaz Weber
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Any update on this? It was updated to “working on it” in 2017.
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EJacobsen
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I second Derek Gabriel below me. Would be great to be able to drag messages out of groups into personal mailboxes, or particularly from group to group.
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Derek Gabriel
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What about the opposite direction, move messages OUT of a group folder? There's still no option for this anywhere...
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Virginia Wester
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If moving multiple emails works in Office Insiders, does that mean it will be released for other users? We still can only move one email at a time.
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Tomas Paulas
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So, I'm please to inform you, that IT WORKS now in Office Insiders release! Even multiple emails. There is no way back though, so when you move it there, you cannot move it back :)
You still cannot create sub-folders, but I understand we must have some New Year gift in 2030 from MS as well ;)
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Amanda Hopkins
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Outlook email client is still not a patch on Eudora, which was put out to grass in about 2006, but remains more sophisticated, more versatile and much more user-friendly (without being condescending, unlike Outlook). MS should be ashamed of itself and its appalling imposition of myriad unwanted cosmetic tweaks in place of actual practical improvements in quite basic functionality. Sheer laziness and an insult to users and customers.
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Anonymous
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The time taken for this drag/drop feature to be implemented is unbelievable. Not having this feature is detrimental to the adoption of O365. If its not possible, please just tell your customers, then we can move on. If it is possible, please provide a deployment date and stick with it. Very frustrating.
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Anonymous
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So the drag & drop is working for me. Thanks! But only 1 message at a time. Which hurts. So. Bad.
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Dirk
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How much longer will it take? We are waiting for 1.5 years for this feature. So much coding?
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Marcel
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Same goes for us.
We can't wait another year for this feature. This is critical for our teams adoption of Office 365
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Scott Whitmore
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We can't wait another year for this feature. This is critical for our teams adoption of Office 365
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Mathew Smethurst-Evans
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Another year to wait!!
Thanks for the links Pascal
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Pascal Groen
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How is it possible this feature is still not available. It was planned for release in Q4 2018 and now it is cancelled and replaced by a new ID 27473 an planned for release Q4 2019 ?
We have customers waiting for this feature for a long time.
Tell us at least why this is so difficult to implement? We can't explain this anymore to our customers.
https://www.microsoft.com/nl-nl/microsoft-365/roadmap?rtc=1%26filters=&searchterms=drag%2Cand%2Cdrop%2Cgroups -
Anonymous
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Having this feature will allow us to drop our third party application, saving money and training. Please release for Windows desktop versions.
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Alison Brenner
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Add to Outlook for Mac ASAP!
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anonym
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Is there a chance to get this feature implemented in outlook for windows in near future?
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Mathew Smethurst-Evans
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...and then the issue will be bringing it to Mac OS!
having different workflows for users on different platforms make adoption so painful and slow... -
Anonymous
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How can this be a big problem
To integrate!!!! Common already! -
Mathew Smethurst-Evans
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Is there any update from the MS team?
For those of use that are communicating with external parties for our projects, the delay of this feature has put our move to O365 Groups on hold. It's so annoying to have to go in to the web client to do this action.