Outlook 2007 sort by "from" intermittently resets to top of emails

[Barry]

I have a Windows XP laptop with Office 2003 and recently had to upgrade to
Outlook 2007 to take advantage of the Unified Messaging on our Exchange 2007
server.

Ever since I upgraded, the sort by field function intermittently loses its
place and resets to the top of the list of emails. I have done a search on
the internet and found a couple of other people with the same problem but no
solution:
http://www.tutorials-win.com/OutlookGen/Outlook-Sort-555144/
http://www.tutorials-win.com/Outlook/Outlook-Altering/

To explain, normally I have emails sorted with most recent at the top.
Sometimes when I read an email, I want to go back to another email sent by
the same person, so I click the column header to sort by name. Normally this
works so that all emails in the folder change to be sorted by name and I am
positioned so I can see all the emails by the highlighted sender. However, 1
in about 5-10 occasions it seems to forget the sender and places me at the
top of the list of emails usually someone starting with "a".

This is very frustrating!

Is there a solution to this as other people in our organisation aren't
experiencing the same problem after the upgrade.

 

[Chris]

I have the same problem and also no solution. I have had Outlook 2007 since last October and the problem cropped up last week. It is a company pc and they ask that we keep the auto-updates going, so it might be something with a recent revision.

Before that, I had the issue where it would default back to 'show in groups'. There is a registry setting to eliminate that where I set AutoArrangeViews DWORD value to 0. That addition corrected that issue, but it does not seem to eliminate this one. In fact, I went back and deleted that registry setting, it still sorted by From.

Chris