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Preventing folders from being moved in Outlook folder list

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Mar 15, 20265322 views
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In the Outlook "folder list", it is quite easy to accidentally pickup a folder and move that into another folder. There is no undo for this, and I have not found a way to prevent this. I thought it was just me, but I recently saw a coworker do the same thing while filing mail via drag and drop. The…

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Fix for: Preventing folders from being moved in Outlook folder list

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I don't know of a way to lock the folders, but in Outlook 2007, you can collapse the folder list so that you don't accidentally drag them. There is a double arrow pointing left at the top of the navigation pane that can be used to collapse or expand…

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