From the course: Outlook Essential Training (Microsoft 365)

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Customize the Outlook inbox

Customize the Outlook inbox

- [Instructor] Outlook has some great options for customizing the way you read your mail, to make it work exactly the way you feel comfortable and productive. Let's start by customizing our view. In this inbox, or above any folder, you'll see these icons on the right-hand side. The three lines contains a filter of how you can filter out just the things you want to see, and I'm going to be talking about that soon, but I'm interested in where it says by date next to that. It defaults to sorting your messages by date, but you can change that sort order. For example, it defaults to showing you your newest mail on top, but you can change the order by having the oldest mail on top. You can also choose to sort by from, that is sort by sender, and from here you can go through and see all your mail from each individual sender, and you can collapse these triangles and see all of your senders that way. You can change it to size, which is useful if you're trying to find a large attachment in your…

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