Outlook 2002 views grouping/sorting

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Aaron Seet

I noticed a (irritating) difference between Outlook 2000 and 2002 definition
of folder Views.

Back in 2000, you could set to group by Conversation Topic, which lumped all
emails with the same email subject together. Now it was still sorted by date
first, meaning the subject-topic with the most recent received (descending)
email with be positioned on top. So it was going by Sort, then Group.

Now in 2002, the priority has been reversed. It is grouped first then sorted
by date. Meaning the email subject with the first in alphabetical order will
ALWAYS be positioned on top, even when its latest email could be received a
year ago. Sorting dates only affect within the groups themselves.

Is it possible to change this back 2000's priority style?

Thanks,
Aaron
The melody of logic will always play out the truth.
- Narumi Ayumu, Spiral
 
I tested with Outlook 2003 and the behaviour is the same. This is not
desirable. Anybody?


--
The melody of logic will always play out the truth.
- Narumi Ayumu, Spiral

I noticed a (irritating) difference between Outlook 2000 and 2002 definition
of folder Views.

Back in 2000, you could set to group by Conversation Topic, which lumped all
emails with the same email subject together. Now it was still sorted by date
first, meaning the subject-topic with the most recent received (descending)
email with be positioned on top. So it was going by Sort, then Group.

Now in 2002, the priority has been reversed. It is grouped first then sorted
by date. Meaning the email subject with the first in alphabetical order will
ALWAYS be positioned on top, even when its latest email could be received a
year ago. Sorting dates only affect within the groups themselves.

Is it possible to change this back 2000's priority style?
 
I don't see that at all. I can readily sort by date received in all versions
by simply clicking on that column.
 
I don't mean simply sorting by Date alone. Alter your view to Group by
Subject + Sort by Date, and you will know what I'm encountering - it bunches
and sorts by Subject now, and the sorting of Date only applies _within_ each
subject group and not by which group having the latest email.


Aaron
--
The melody of logic will always play out the truth.
- Narumi Ayumu, Spiral


I don't see that at all. I can readily sort by date received in all versions
by simply clicking on that column.
 
That was in fact the first thing I tried, remembering how it was done in
2000. However, it bunched all 60 msgs of various Subjects into a (None)
conversation, so I figured something's gone wrong or the logic's changed.
That's when I started trying out all other combos of settings and none
worked.

Aaron
--
The melody of logic will always play out the truth.
- Narumi Ayumu, Spiral



Use Arrange by Conversation, not Subject.
 
Not reproducible here. Arrange By Conversation is the view that does what
you want in Outlook 2003. Are these old messages received in some previous
version of Outlook?
 
I think i know what's the problem, or "feature", now. Those messages are
imported from OE. So Outlook cannot rely on email messages' headers alone,
but seems to tag additional data upon receiving them that allows such a
grouping.


Aaron
--
The melody of logic will always play out the truth.
- Narumi Ayumu, Spiral


Not reproducible here. Arrange By Conversation is the view that does what
you want in Outlook 2003. Are these old messages received in some previous
version of Outlook?
 
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