Outlook: Organizing Email by Conversations or Messages

Summary

This article details how to organize emails by conversation or messages for Microsoft Outlook on the Web and Microsoft Outlook Desktop App for both Windows and MacOS users.

 

How-To

Task: To organize email for Microsoft Outlook on the Web

Instructions

Step 1 - Select the "Filter icon" next to your inbox name

Step 2 - Select "Sort", and choose the organize method from "Sort by" and "Sort order"

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Outcome

You have organized your email in a chosen way.

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Task: To organize email for Windows Outlook Desktop App

Instructions

Step 1 - In your client, click the "By:" dropdown menu

Step 2 - Pick the display view you would like to use

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Outcome

You have organized your email in a chosen way.

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Task: To organize email for Microsoft Outlook Desktop App for MacOS

Instructions

Step 1 - In your client, click the "By:" dropdown menu

Step 2 - Pick the display view you would like to use

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Outcome

You have organized your email in a chosen way.

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