Ran into a weird request today. Ok, maybe it’s not weird just because I have never had this request, but it’s one of those “needle in a haystack” type of requests. It deals with Outlook 2003 interface and setting the message listing to NOT group by time automatically.
It’s easy to do it from View -> Arrange -> Uncheck “Group By” for each folder — if you only have a dozen folders or so — but when you have a few hundred, this is time consuming to do for each one manually.
Quick google search introduced me to this page: http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/grouping.htm
Has exactly what is needed to globally set the Group By view definitions.
- …Next, find the Define views menu. Look on the Advanced toolbar, at the bottom of the Current views drop down command or browse to the View, Arrange by, Current view menu to find it.
- Select the view *by name*, not using <Current View Settings>, otherwise, the view will apply only to the currently selected folder. (When you click on Arrange by and Customize… only the view for the current folder is edited.)
- Click Modify button to open the Customize view dialog, then Group button.
- Uncheck Automatically group according to arrangement and Ok your way back to the view. Grouping is now disabled for this view. Repeat for each named view that you want to edit.
Happy Outlooking… =)