Apply or change an arrangement - Outlook

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Apply or change an arrangement

Applies to: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

The default arrangement (arrangement: A predefined combination of grouped and sorted messages in table view.) used to view messages is the Date arrangement. You can switch to any of the other predefined arrangements by following the steps below.

On the View menu, click Arrange By.
Click the arrangement you want.
To customize the arrangement you just applied, on the View menu, click Arrange By, and then click Custom, and then select the options you want.

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To quickly change from one standard arrangement to another:

In single-line layout, right-click a column heading (column heading: The horizontal bar at the top of one column in a table. There are multiple column headings in the column heading row.), click Arrange By on the shortcut menu (shortcut menu: A menu that shows a list of commands relevant to a particular item. To display a shortcut menu, right-click an item or press SHIFT+F10.), and then click the arrangement you want.

In multi-line layout, right-click the Arranged By: Arrangement name column, and then click the arrangement you want.