How to create a custom grouping arrangement for a view

[Van_D]

- When browsing through my emails I can group them by a myriad of different
fields and when I tell it to AUTOMATICALLY group them by RECEIVED , it groups
them by "Yesterday," "Monday," "Sunday," "Two Weeks Ago," etc.

- But when I try to custom group them by RECEIVED, it makes a separate
group for each date/time for each message.

- My question is: Is there a way to create 'smart' grouping arrangements
like those that are generated by the automatic arrangement option? My email
account has lots of time-sensitive emails coming through it and it would be
greatly helpful to be able to bring attention to emails that were received on
certain date ranges. (ie. 12 hours ago, 2 days ago, 12 days ago, etc)

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Don't use the Group By feature in the view settings but enable the grouping
option in;
View-> Arrange By-> Show in Groups

 

[Van_D]

Thank you, I understand that. What I'm looking for is more control over how
the messages are grouped. For instance, I want to control the date ranges
for my items that I've recieved. Outlook automatically puts things together
that have arrived in the day before which is obviously based off of your
current system time.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

No, you cannot modify the grouping conditions in that way.
By using custom Search Folders you can dynamically create such mail groups
though.

 

[Van_D]

Bummer, well thanks for the info!

No, you cannot modify the grouping conditions in that way.
By using custom Search Folders you can dynamically create such mail groups
though.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You're welcome!

Bummer, well thanks for the info!