Do you group your emails by Conversation and Date?

Last updated by Jimmy Chen [SSW] 4 months ago.See history

You may be involved in different tasks simultaneously every day. The best way to organize your tasks and follow each task individually is grouping your emails by conversation. By default, Outlook sorts the emails by Date.

Group By Conversation Bad
Figure: Bad example. Email messages are sorted by Date

Group By Conversation Good
Figure: Good example. Email messages are grouped by Conversation

Follow these steps to group by conversation:

Let's take the Outlook Version 2410 as an example,

  1. Open Outlook and select "View" on the ribbon.
  2. Tick the "Show as Conversations" option as displayed in the image.

Group By Conversation Instruction
Figure: Steps to group by conversation option

  1. You can find more settings in the next option.

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