Moving email address up in the list in Outlook 2013

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I am using outlook 2013 and have 2 email addresses. I received an email from Microsoft to reconnect my msn account in Outlook. That worked fine but now my msn email address is listed first and my roadrunner address is listed second. How do I move the roadrunner account to be listed first when Outlook is opened?

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Mike

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Outlook places the default account first (the one it will send a new message from unless changed). So if you want the other one first, make that the default account:

Set the Default Email Account in Outlook

To choose the email account you want to be the default in Outlook:

1. Click File in Outlook.
2. Make sure the Info category is open.
3. Click Account Settings ▾ under Account Settings.
4. Select Account Settings… from the menu that has appeared.
5. Highlight the account you want to be the default.
6. Click Set as Default.
7. Click Close.

How to Set the Default Account in Outlook

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It doesn’t work. The roadrunner account which was listed second is still listed second even though it is set as the default.

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Have you tried dragging them into the order you want? That works for me in Ofiice 365.

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Have you tried dragging them into the order you want? That works for me in Ofiice 365.

Me too in Outlook 2007, and in Outlook 2010, 2013, & 2016 on customers’ systems.

@ mike4381

Place the mouse pointer over the account you want to move, press and hold down the left mouse button, drag the account up to the position you want, release the left mouse button. The accounts should now be arranged as you want.

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That did it. I held the mouse button down and was able to get the accounts in the correct order.

Thanks,

Mike

Me too in Outlook 2007, and in Outlook 2010, 2013, & 2016 on customers’ systems.

@ mike4381

Place the mouse pointer over the account you want to move, press and hold down the left mouse button, drag the account up to the position you want, release the left mouse button. The accounts should now be arranged as you want.

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I have similar issue. I use Win 10 and outlook 2010.
The problem is the two email accounts I use are an IMAP one with Comcast[my main email] and my school account with an Exchange account.
I have been able to put the IMAP at top of the list, but the Exchange always opens first.
More importantly, even while replying to an email in the Comcast account, the reply goes from the Exchange account.
Since I do not always check the Exchange/edu account every day, I often thing someone has not replied to me. Then I am not responding to their reply. that make me fell $%^##^.

Any ideas??
Thanks.

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I have similar issue. I use Win 10 and outlook 2010.
The problem is the two email accounts I use are an IMAP one with Comcast[my main email] and my school account with an Exchange account.
I have been able to put the IMAP at top of the list, but the Exchange always opens first.
More importantly, even while replying to an email in the Comcast account, the reply goes from the Exchange account.

You can set which Inbox gets opened first by browsing to the relevant folder at File, Options, Advanced, Outlook start and exit, Start Outlook in this folder:

Start Outlook 2010 With IMAP Inbox Folder

You can select the sending account each time by clicking the From button: Choose which email account to use to send an email message

But for Outlook 2010 you can set a registry value to send always from the default account (or to ask which should be used): Outlook, Multiple Accounts and the Default Account

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WOW!!
Windows secrets Lounge folk are great..I had been so frustrated. Somewhere I read that with an Exchange account there was no way to have the other account open first. But You saved the day.
Thank you so much. You made me a Happy Camper.

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