Setting the Root folder path in Outlook 2016, 2019 or Microsoft 365.
To make the change, you’ll have to go to the “Advanced Settings” tab of your account configuration
Setting a root folder for your Gmail account Creating subfolders in Outlook and Labels in Gmail.Setting a root folder for your Gmail account.Luckily, there is a workaround for that as well. However, this has an effect on any Labels that you might use in Gmail. To break yourself out of this additional subfolder and have all these folders listed directly under your mailbox in Outlook, you can set a root folder for your Gmail IMAP account. When you are using a Gmail account over IMAP in Outlook, you’ll also automatically get an or folder containing all the “system folders” of Gmail itself.
