Outlook and Outlook Express
Sorting Your Inbox

If you send and receive a lot of email, you sometimes need to sort through it to find one particular email. This page has some tips to help you do just that.

Outlook and Outlook Express are both frequently used email programs from Microsoft. These tips apply to both programs.

You can sort your email by any of the headings in your Inbox. The picture below shows the headings for Priorities, Attachments, Flags, From, Subject, and Received. Notice the gray arrow on the Received box in this image. This indicates that this Inbox is currently sorted by the date received. This is the default setting.

• Click on any of the heading boxes to sort by that heading.

• Click on the heading containing the arrow to reverse the direction of the order.

Use this technique to sort through your Inbox, Sent Folder, or even your Deleted Folder. (The names of the headings change in the Sent Mail folder – instead of From, the heading is To, instead of Received the heading is Sent.)

If you are looking for an email from a particular person, click on the From heading to sort your emails by the names. Suppose you remember the subject of an email you sent and you want to know when you sent it. Click the Subject heading to sort the email by the subjects.