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How to sort emails by sender in Outlook?

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By default, Outlook email messages are arranged by Date. In this article, I will show you a method of sorting emails by sender in Outlook. Please do as follows.

Sort emails by sender in Outlook.

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Sort emails by sender in Outlook.

In Outlook, there are two methods for you to sort emails by senders. Please do as follows.

Method 1:

1. Please get into the email folder which you want to sort emails by senders inside.

2. Then go to the View tab, click From in the Arrangement group. See screenshot:

the screenshot of step about sorting emails by sender in Outlook 1

3. Then you can see the emails in this specified folder are arranged by sender as follow screenshot shows.

the screenshot of step about sorting emails by sender in Outlook 2

In Outlook 2007, please click View > Arrange By > From.

the screenshot of step about sorting emails by sender in Outlook 3

Methods 2:

Besides the above method 1, you can also sort emails by sender as following method.

1. Please click View > View Settings. See screenshot:

the screenshot of step about sorting emails by sender in Outlook 4

In Outlook 2007, please click View > Current View > Customize Current View.

the screenshot of step about sorting emails by sender in Outlook 5

2. In the Advanced View Settings dialog box (in Outlook 2007, it is Customize View: Messages dialog box), please click Sort button. When the Sort dialog box pops up, please select From in the Sort items by drop down list. And then click OK button in each dialog box.

the screenshot of step about sorting emails by sender in Outlook 6

Then all emails in the selected folder are sorted by email senders automatically.


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