There are a few ways to change this but I will show you the quickest way this can be done in the first instance.

This makes it a little harder to manage emails effectively as it is not easy to see exactly when emails have arrived. So now as you can see above, my Email Inbox is “Arranged By Date” (Received) which is good, but my emails are not grouped in any way. Their Inbox now looks more like the picture shown below: (Today/Yesterday/Last Week, Last Month etc).īut sometimes, people lose the “Show in Groups” option and their emails are no longer grouped. I only see the Email Subject… but that’s another subject for another day!) Anyway, my Inbox as shown below is “Arranged by Date” (date received) and grouped by the date also….or “Show in Groups”. (Although you might note that I don’t use any “Preview” options. The default view in your Microsoft Outlook Inbox is usually as shown in the picture below. Recently I received this exact request, so I decided to write a short article showing people how it is done.

Although it is quite an easy change to make, if you don’t know how, it can be very frustrating. When that happens, many people struggle to work out how to get it back. This is actually the default view in your Microsoft Outlook Inbox, but the view can sometimes be changed inadvertently. In Outlook, this is called “Show In Groups” That is, emails are grouped by the day they arrived. In my Productivity Training, I often get asked how to organise and group emails in their Outlook Inbox by the date received.

Productivity Training for Executive Assistants & Directorsģ Likes How to Group Emails in Microsoft Outlook by Date.

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