I currently have Outlook set up to sort E-mails by date (date/time received) and do automatic grouping. This results in groups such as: Today, Yesterday, ..., Last Week, Two Weeks Ago, etc.

Is there any way to change the grouping type so that it groups all E-mails by day and not by week?

5/7/2009 11:17:39 AM

Outside of writing an add-on, I don't see how. I've tried every combination of grouping and arrangement using the date and it doesn't seem to matter. Even when you format the 'Received' column to just a day when you group by it it puts out the entire date string including the time.

5/7/2009 11:32:30 AM

figured so. I thought the received form would do it too - what MS moron thought to code it like that? who receives enough emails at the same exact time, down to the second, to warrant grouping them by that????

5/7/2009 11:39:33 AM

^wait, what? You are complaining that someone wrote a sorter that groups BY DATETIME? Seriously?

5/7/2009 4:09:53 PM

he's just wanting it to always be per day instead of how it is now.. like right now mine has today, yesterday, tuesday, monday then goes to last week..two weeks ago, last month, older.


[Edited on May 7, 2009 at 4:12 PM. Reason : it's not a bad idea]

5/7/2009 4:12:09 PM

^^who needs to GROUP emails by date/time down to the second?? I understand GROUPING by DAY but by the EXACT DAY AND TIME?

GROUP != SORT

[Edited on May 7, 2009 at 4:14 PM. Reason : .]

5/7/2009 4:13:42 PM

^Group By is calculated on the field. When you group by Recieved, its grouping by the timestamp, which is always down to the second.

If you want to group by Day, you need to write a new calculated field for that.

Customize View->Fields->Create...->Type=Formula

Choose(Weekday([Received],0),"Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday","Sunday")

That gives you the calculated day,if you do Sort By Recieved, and show in groups, then you still have the Last week/last month deal but at least you can see the day.

If you want TRUE sort by day (in date order), then you need to write the custom field in VBA, or override the existing show in groups with your own filter.

5/7/2009 5:10:34 PM