Comments on: Why Outlook 2010’s conversation view doesn’t work

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:22:38 +0000

Nearly 2012 and still a ‘feature’. I wish I could use gmail for my work emails!

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:56:19 +0000

I have just been rolled into Office 2010 and have now gotte the GUID version of Conversations View. Does anyone know how Office 2010 can be changed back to the Headings identifier without rolling back to exchange 2003. I relied on this and hate the GUID version for “Telementry tracking”

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:21:36 +0000

seriously? this was flagged up 2 years ago, and when I come and search to see if there is just an option button I am missing I learn it is an inbuilt problem they haven’t bothered fixing in 2 years? wow.

By: reg

reg — Fri, 20 May 2011 07:02:19 +0000

2011 and still does not work.

microsoft fail

By: Johann

Johann — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:42:01 +0000

Thanks for your post! You have exactly described what Microsoft should improve with next release! Actually I hope that there will be a bugfix as it is really a bug. But probably we have to pay for the next Office Version. But most important is that Microsoft will fix that problem anyway…

I have used “The Bat!” with Threading. This was great. Threading by Message ID is the only “real” Threading. Threading by subject… oh no you have described all the problems.

One more problem: Outlook 2010 cuts the “AW” or “Re” in front of the subject in the main view. So Outlook changed the subject for certain emails. And what does that mean for threading? Right, Outlook can’t recognize Threading for those manipulated emails!! Outlook stands in its own light!

Just because of the great calendar and the todo-list I have switched from The Bat to Outlook. I hope MS improves OL 2010 soon.

By: David

David — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:33:48 +0000

January 2011: still the same pb in outlook.
I love Gmail!!!

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By: nick frost

nick frost — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:47:09 +0000

all i want to do is forward a complete conversation like i do in Outlook 2007 so my colleague can see all of the previous mails in one… i jsut cant find out how to do it in OWA 2010, its driving me MADDDDD

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:03:00 +0000

I too have 2010 RTM and have been having various issues with conversation view. One of which is what is reported here.

The only thing, however, is that everyone is saying Outlook 2010 appears to be lumping messages together simply by subject alone, and it does appear to do that at times, but I don’t think it’s really doing that.

For example: I have a problem with emails with a particular subject being lumped together when in fact they are separate threads. I’ve attempted to “change” the subject of some of the emails in hopes of breaking them out of the thread, but they remain in the same thread, even with new subject. I’m really not liking this!

By: Ishan

Ishan — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:45:38 +0000

The Final retail version doesnt seem to have any further improvement on this. I still see it incorrectly grouping only by subject line, which is horrible!