Outlook 2016.
My Inbox order is sent to RECEIVED, with the chevron pointing up, so
the new messages are at the bottom of the list.
That's the way it's always been, at least for as long as I can
remember. But what's new (at least for the past few weeks) is that
when I go to the Inbox, the oldest message (the message on top) is
what I see.
It's the opposite of the it used to be, and the way I would prefer it
to be--showing the most recent message, the one at the bottom.
Does anyone here know what changed and why? And whether I can change
it back, and if so, how?
Ken Blake wrote:
Outlook 2016.
My Inbox order is sent to RECEIVED, with the chevron pointing up, so
the new messages are at the bottom of the list.
That's the way it's always been, at least for as long as I can
remember. But what's new (at least for the past few weeks) is that
when I go to the Inbox, the oldest message (the message on top) is
what I see.
It's the opposite of the it used to be, and the way I would prefer it
to be--showing the most recent message, the one at the bottom.
Does anyone here know what changed and why? And whether I can change
it back, and if so, how?
Unclear if you are asking why:
- The sort order changed.
In that case, click on the Received column
header to toggle the sort order. Even toggle it and then back to see
if kicking it in the butt gets it sorted in the correct order to match
the chevron direction.
- The list is still sorted oldest to newest top down but now the default
selected message when you load Outlook is the one at the top (oldest)
instead the one at the bottom (newest).
Do you have grouping enabled?
That shows e-mails by shared dates, like
all on Monday, Tuesday, etc. I hate that mode because conversations
that span many days aren't and cannot be grouped by a single day.
Are you using Conversation mode? I gave up on that because there are
way too many users of crappy e-mail clients that do not add the
References header which is used to track threading of messages into a
tree hierarchy (aka conversation). Way too many users are cryptic in
their Subject header resulting in them using the same one, so threading
by Subject header means you get unrelated threads merged together.
Do you let Office automatically update? Done any Windows updates
lately? If either, have you rebooted Windows to allow any locked files
to get replace by the updated versions during a boot?
On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 03:23:19 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:
Ken Blake wrote:
Outlook 2016.
My Inbox order is sent to RECEIVED, with the chevron pointing up, so
the new messages are at the bottom of the list.
That's the way it's always been, at least for as long as I can
remember. But what's new (at least for the past few weeks) is that
when I go to the Inbox, the oldest message (the message on top) is
what I see.
It's the opposite of the it used to be, and the way I would prefer it
to be--showing the most recent message, the one at the bottom.
Does anyone here know what changed and why? And whether I can change
it back, and if so, how?
Unclear if you are asking why:
- The sort order changed.
No.
In that case, click on the Received column
header to toggle the sort order. Even toggle it and then back to see
if kicking it in the butt gets it sorted in the correct order to match
the chevron direction.
- The list is still sorted oldest to newest top down but now the default
selected message when you load Outlook is the one at the top (oldest)
instead the one at the bottom (newest).
Yes.
Do you have grouping enabled?
Yes. And I think that was the problem. I just turned grouping off and
I think that fixed it. Thanks very much.
Ken Blake wrote:
VanguardLH wrote:
Ken Blake wrote:
Outlook 2016.
My Inbox order is sent to RECEIVED, with the chevron pointing up,
so the new messages are at the bottom of the list.
That's the way it's always been, at least for as long as I can
remember. But what's new (at least for the past few weeks) is that
when I go to the Inbox, the oldest message (the message on top) is
what I see.
It's the opposite of the it used to be, and the way I would prefer
it to be--showing the most recent message, the one at the bottom.
Do you have grouping enabled?
Yes. And I think that was the problem. I just turned grouping off
and I think that fixed it. Thanks very much.
I was wrong. It didn't fix it. The problem remains.
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