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Outlook got conversation grouping and good search (long as you let Windows Search index your mail) a couple versions back, IIRC.
by Encosia 11y ago
Outlook got conversation grouping and good search (long as you let Windows Search index your mail) a couple versions back, IIRC.
- wahsd 11y agoSorry, unless I totally missed something, that is not really the case. I am talking about conversation threading like Gmail and outlook global search in Outlook itself. I have not played with the most recent version and maybe I'm just not doing it right, but as far as I can tell in Outlook, searching a mail folder will only search that single mail folder, not a parent, not a child.
- Encosia 11y agoThreading like Gmail is called "Show as Conversations" in Outlook. It's been available since 2010. They work almost identically as far as I've noticed (I use both Outlook and the web interface to my Google Apps email account most days). I'm not sure when exactly it was added, but this dropdown near the search input controls the scope: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7x35rgahnuultnp/outlook-search-all-items.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/7x35rgahnuultnp/outlook-search-all... For a while before, you could still search globally. If you did a single folder search, there was a link/button/something to expand the search to all folders if you didn't find what you were after in the single folder. The key with Outlook search is that you need to let the indexing service run. Search from within Outlook depends on that index for quick searches.