Unable to Drag and Drop Messages or Folders in Outlook 2016

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I really like expertise for a lot of causes. One of many causes is that it poses troubleshooting challenges and presents puzzles which can be enjoyable to unravel. If troubleshooting causes you stress, I can completely perceive. Nevertheless, I discover challenges to be thrilling and enjoyable. Because of the Web, typically I get fortunate and discover a resolution to the issue rapidly by doing a easy search. However then there are days when I don’t discover a resolution on the Web and spend, hours, days, weeks and even months trying to find a solution and attempting numerous methods on my personal till I’m able to resolve the problem. That’s after I weblog about the issue and the answer to share it with the worldwide IT group. Nicely, as we speak was my fortunate day as a result of I discovered an answer to an issue in a short time and the answer was so bizarre that it is best to learn it only for the enjoyable of it, even in the event you haven’t skilled the issue.

As we speak I used to be utilizing Outlook 2016 that’s a part of 32-bit Workplace Skilled Plus 2016, operating on 64-bit Home windows 10 Enterprise when immediately my Outlook refused to let me drag a message from the Inbox to a folder. Hmmm? I attempted different messages and different folders however dragging and dropping was basically banned by my Outlook 2016. I closed Outlook and restarted it however received the identical end result. So I did a fast Web search (sure, it was Google, duh!) and located the answer on a Site referred to as saniac. The one that wrote the answer stated to hit the Escape (ESC) key. Sure, that’s what it stated. I’ve to confess at first I didn’t consider it and was about to maneuver to a unique hyperlink for an answer however then I assumed, it’s simply the ESC key, let me give it a shot. I reluctantly hit the ESC key, probably not anticipating any outcomes, however it is best to have seen the response on my face. Complete disbelief. The drag and drop began to work immediately. Say, what?


In response to the writer of the publish, typically you’ll have to press the ESC key a couple of occasions. The writer skilled this difficulty in Home windows 7 Enterprise (64-bit) and Workplace Skilled Plus 2010 (32-bit) however reported that the identical resolution works in Home windows File Explorer and Microsoft Lync (now Skype).

In case you are a daily reader of my weblog, after studying a few of my bizarre options, you’ve in all probability stated out loud “however that is not sensible.” And you can be right. This resolution falls into the very same class as a result of “that is not sensible.”

 

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