# Hotmail, and the way it sorts my emails

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-and-the-way-it-sorts-my-emails/182451>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 17, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-and-the-way-it-sorts-my-emails/182451 "2003-06-17T13:32:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beastal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Beastal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastal)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-and-the-way-it-sorts-my-emails/182451/1 "2003-06-17T13:32:29Z")

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Hi all,

Recently my Hotmail account has started sorting my email inbox in order of the size of the email, rather than the date I received it. How do I switch it back? It started doing this on its own a few days ago.

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**Author:** ![melongrind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@melongrind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melongrind)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-and-the-way-it-sorts-my-emails/182451/2 "2003-06-17T13:34:21Z")

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hey there, click on the heading of the column you want to sort bye

melongrind  
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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-and-the-way-it-sorts-my-emails/182451/3 "2003-06-17T13:34:41Z")

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Easy cheesy. At the top of your email listing is a blue bar with the column labels in white. Click the one that says “Date”. If the dates are in the wrong order (e.g. oldest to newest), just click it again).

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**Author:** ![MC\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@MC\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_E)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-and-the-way-it-sorts-my-emails/182451/4 "2003-06-17T13:36:17Z")

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You should be able to click on whichever column heading you’d like it to use to sort the emails. I believe the default is by date. Clicking the same heading again will change it from ascending order to descending order or vice-versa.

MC$E

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**Author:** ![Beastal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Beastal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastal)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-and-the-way-it-sorts-my-emails/182451/5 "2003-06-17T13:53:32Z")

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Wow, that was painfully easy.

Thanks guys.