Outlook should let you sort email by read and unread

[Greco]

At the end of the day after receiving 250 emails I want to sort by unread so
that I can make sure I didn't miss anything.

ALSO - When I sort by sender I want to be able to collapse each sender in
the fashion of the triangle to the left of the name - clicking it closes all
of the emails from "Joe" into one line and indicates that there are more
emails from Joe if I click the arrow and maximize the list. This would be
very helpful when scrolling through 5000 emails looking for 1 from a certain
user. And no - I don't want to use the search feature.

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[William Lefkovics [MVP]]

I don't blame you. I never use the search feature either.

I think for the unread/read, you could use a View to show only unread.

For the second, when I sort the inbox on Outlook 2003, I can collapse
content for each sender. It is a little + sign and not a triangle, but I
think it is doing what you want. I can also right-click and collapse all
the content by sender - leaving me with one line showing the sender and
total and unread items from them.
Does that not work well for you?

 

[Judy Gleeson MVP - Outlook]

The function you are describing is Grouping not sorting. It's there. You
can use it to group by sender and collapse or expand the groups.

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At the end of the day after receiving 250 emails I want to sort by unread so
that I can make sure I didn't miss anything.

ALSO - When I sort by sender I want to be able to collapse each sender in
the fashion of the triangle to the left of the name - clicking it closes all
of the emails from "Joe" into one line and indicates that there are more
emails from Joe if I click the arrow and maximize the list. This would be
very helpful when scrolling through 5000 emails looking for 1 from a certain
user. And no - I don't want to use the search feature.

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b6-48d6-96f7-8e2d2b9e0a25&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I think for the unread/read, you could use a View to show only unread.Or better yet, use the built-in Unread Messages search folder.

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