How to reopen Microsoft Outlook conversation view after sorting a folder

Microsoft Outlook Conversation View is a really useful tool. Despite this, if you sort or group your emails by column, will lose them. Fortunately, there is a simple way (even if less than obvious) to recover the Conversation View.

When you turn on Conversation View, group all your emails by conversation, regardless of where they are in your mailbox. Because, if you receive a reply in your inbox, Outlook will show all previous emails in that conversation in a thread, even if you have moved them to other folders.

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Despite this, when the view settings change, you may lose the Conversation View and it is not obvious how to get it back. The next image shows what it looks like when Conversation View is enabled.

Despite this, when we click on the column header “From” when we click on the column header, Conversation View alternatives are grayed out and the folder is no longer in Conversation View.

Then, How can you make Outlook re-display your emails in Conversation View?

Some people just change the folder back to the default view. This is effective, but it also means that they have to reset the view to add or delete columns, reset any format and redo whatever else you want the folder to have.

Unfortunately, many people just don't use the Conversation View because it's not obvious why it stopped working, especially if they clicked on a column heading inadvertently.

To get Conversation View working again, just right click on any column heading in Outlook and then select Arrange by> Date (Conversations).

And so, Conversation View should work again!