As I get to the end of the week it will actually say on Friday it will say yesterday, that'll be Thursday Wednesday, Tuesday Monday, and then it will say last week. If I choose on the other hand date, look what I get.
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So if I look at this grouping this provides some information to me. Remember when we were sorted by size and notice it says medium and there are a bunch of items and then if we scrolled down a little further we'll see items that are smaller and if I collapse the groups that'll make it really easy.
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The second option is grouping and we've seen this a couple of times and if you accidentally turned it off you would probably miss it. You can turn it on for all mailboxes just as easily if you turn it off. If you want to turn conversations off you can turn it off either here by clicking the check box or you can go to the drop down and turn off show as conversations and then determine if you want to turn it off for just this folder or for all mailboxes. To show all of the senders above the subject as you'll notice that Kathy and Leslie are both listed there and to use the classic indented view, these are options that I can turn on and off but if you're new to conversation settings thee are the defaults for a reason, keep them and see how that works for you. By default the conversation settings include showing messages from other folders so if I reply to a message then information from sent items will be here. So conversation view allows me to see all of the information that is part of a conversation. All the parts of the conversation are gathered together and notice that I can go look at the parts and pieces even though they weren't sent together this is a conversation two people are having with me and with each other and that's just a great thing. I'd start with last week the day after I left and I would read all the way forward to make sure I understood the conversation, now I don't need to. And the reason I love this is if I'm out of the office and I come back I don't have to necessarily start at the bottom of my inbox and work my way up to follow a conversation which is what I used to need to do. With conversations all of the messages that are part of the same conversation or thread get grouped together and where they appear in your email is the date of the most recent contribution to that conversation.
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Let me show you about conversations first and I want to give you an example of how this works. Why would you want to Replay All With Attachments? So you get ALL the parties included, are sure to get the file, and don't provide a pathway to your own file storage.- There are two mechanisms for being able to group information that are on by default in my inbox in Outlook 2016 and those are conversations and smart grouping or groups. Using a link to a shared file addresses the first two items, but not everyone can (or wants to) share access with people outside their organization. Reply All and copy file risks forgetting to include the file.įorward includes the file but risks forgetting recipients Why is there no option (even if you have to activate it in Outlook Options) to Reply All with attachment? It is so tiresome to read Microsofties' responses that "There is no option.", "It's not set up that way.", "Why would you want to do that?" or "Here is a workaround that is a whole lot more effort, difficult, and user unfriendly." These responses are the more tiresome when Microsoft has eliminated something and the Microsofties respond as though that thing never existed (keyboard shortcuts anyone?). The problem with Microsoft's response (or their delegates) is that the MS engineers or decision makers cannot conceive of anyone doing anything differently than how they create the software.