Conversation view

[Mark Allison]

Hi,

I subscribe to a mailing list and I don't like the way Outlook 2003
groups the messages in Conversation view. I would like it to collapse
all the threads, but it insists on expanding threads that have not been
read, I don't want it to do that. I would like it to behave like it did
in Outlook XP and Outlook 2000. Is there a setting somewhere to turn
this off?

Thanks,
Mark.

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Go to View | Arrange By and change the grouping to something else.

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[Mark Allison]

Go to View | Arrange By and change the grouping to something else.

I want to view them grouped by conversation but not expanded. Any way to
do that?

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

You can try going into the Customize Current View dialog, clicking the Group
By button and choosing "All collapsed" in the Expand/Collapse Defaults
box...but I'm not sure it works the same way for this particular view as it
does in other grouped views.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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[Mark Allison]

You can try going into the Customize Current View dialog, clicking the Group
By button and choosing "All collapsed" in the Expand/Collapse Defaults
box...but I'm not sure it works the same way for this particular view as it
does in other grouped views.

Thanks - that doesn't work either - the threads do not get collapsed
even when I tell it to collapse them. Why did Microsoft change this? It
is SO infuriating! I'm even thinking of uninstalling Outlook 2003 and
putting Outlook XP back on because of this. I want to view my email list
messages in a newsgroup style layout, but there appears to be no way of
doing this now, but there was in previous versions.

Why, why, why?

 

[Guest]

I cannot answer the 'why' part, but to collapse those groups that have unread messages in them do the following:

Click on the View menu
Slect the Expand/collapse groups item
Uncheck 'Allways show Unread and flagged messages'

And that should do it for you.