Microsoft Outlook Tip - View by Conversation

When you view your e-mails by date, it will show the newest e-mail at the top of the list. However, wouldn’t it be handy to be able to pull together all e-mails with the same conversation? Outlook 2010 now has this feature.

Check you are viewing your e-mails by date first (eg rather than by ‘from’ or ‘categories’). Then go to the View tab and select the Show as Conversations option.

All the e-mails that belong to a conversation will be grouped together and can now be expanded or collapsed by selecting that e-mail in your list and clicking on the expand arrow next to it.

Now when you receive a new message, the entire conversation appears with it at the top of your list so you can quickly check what Joe Bloggs said in their e-mail within the entire conversation, saving you loads of time checking through e-mails in your entire inbox. Older versions of Outlook offer a similar option by viewing e-mails by subject.

A conversation is defined by the text in the subject line.

Again thank you to our Internet/microsoft guru, Elaine Taylor