

You can also see this list in the Recent Searches. Here’s an example of Outlook search history, which is accessible in the upper right corner of Outlook. This will save you time and nuisance because searching for, let’s say, a social security number is not something people do all the time. By knowing what’s in your history, you will be able to better protect your privacy.īest Practice: If constantly deleting your Outlook search history is a nuisance, you may want to consider deleting it only after you use a search term that’s confidential. However, even if you always remember to close Outlook, you may have a need to open Outlook and look for certain information. Those of us who present at webinars and teach online classes, closing Outlook before the session begins is an obvious thing to do, especially when you don’t want others to be distracted by your Outlook desktop alerts (which I never enable on my computers). Even if you are the only one who uses your computer, the search history can be exposed to the others accidentally if you are sharing your screen in a video conference and need to look up some information in Outlook. From security and privacy perspective, it’s important that you occasionally check your Outlook search history to ensure there isn’t anything in the history that you don’t want others to see. I've tried restarting Outlook, running Quick Repair on Office 365, rebooting the computer, launching Outlook in Safe mode, messing with the View.nothing has allowed me to reset my Inbox to how I'd like it to be.Īny ideas for anything else I can try? Thanks.The search history in Outlook displays the previous searches that you have done to locate certain information. The Search field, and the font size of the sender and subject of the message have changed-they used to be on 2 lines, now they're on one line and the font size is smaller.Īnd here's what my Inbox USED to look like, which is how I'd like to get it back to (this is now how my Sent folder appears):Īs noted, I tried creating a view of the Sent folder, then apply it to my Inbox folder, but that caused all emails to display by "Sent To" as the default view rather than Sent From, and I couldn't get that to change and stick each time I'd close My "sort by" dropdown has disappeared (top-left blank area, as has the "Newest/Oldest" text and sorting arrow. I've outlined in red things that have changed.

however, all emails were displaying in order of who they were sent to, rather than who I tried saving that view as a new view, then applying it to the Inbox, which got me close to what I wanted. The view in my Sent folder is what I'd like the Inbox to be. I tried resetting the view, but that changed it to something other than what it used to be. My Outlook Inbox view suddenly changed the last time I opened Outlook (using Office 365 ProPlus, version.
