Thread messages in Outlook

[naturat]

How does one thread messages in Outlook XP? I want it to do a simple thread
on the messages like I can in Outlook Express or even back in Netscape 4.7x.
Instead when I've tried I finally found that it's called groups in Outlook
XP and then it groups even messages with a single message in them showing a
silly header for every one. I don't want the headers to show, I want it to
view like it would in any other email app. How do I get rid of the grouping
headers and simply have it group (thread) the messages?

While I'm asking... I have a hard time believing that for all it's supposed
to be able to do, that I can't read a newsgroup with it and have to revert
back to OE to read my newsgroups. I would have thought that everything that
was in OE would have been in OXP and then some, but it doesn't appear like
it's as robust in many cases. Is it in there somewhere that I'm missing it?

Thanks,
-Jon

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Are you using Group by Conversation? What is it lacking?

Also, Outlook and Outlook Express are unrelated separate products that share
a name - unforutnate marketing mistake. Other than that, the functions and
target audience for each are entirely different. Outlook will never have a
newsreader as OE provides one. Why duplicate functionality when you already
have a program that does it and it is provided with the operating system?
Also, why would corporations, the primary target for Outlook, want their
employees browsing alt.binaries.sex.woodchucks when they should be tallying
widgets?


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer:
naturat <[email protected]> asked:
| How does one thread messages in Outlook XP? I want it to do a simple
| thread on the messages like I can in Outlook Express or even back in
| Netscape 4.7x. Instead when I've tried I finally found that it's
| called groups in Outlook XP and then it groups even messages with a
| single message in them showing a silly header for every one. I don't
| want the headers to show, I want it to view like it would in any
| other email app. How do I get rid of the grouping headers and simply
| have it group (thread) the messages?
|
| While I'm asking... I have a hard time believing that for all it's
| supposed to be able to do, that I can't read a newsgroup with it and
| have to revert back to OE to read my newsgroups. I would have thought
| that everything that was in OE would have been in OXP and then some,
| but it doesn't appear like it's as robust in many cases. Is it in
| there somewhere that I'm missing it?
|
| Thanks,
| -Jon