# Sorting emails in Outlook by “subject with the most messages”

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 10, 2022, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorting-emails-in-outlook-by-subject-with-the-most-messages/969421 "2022-08-10T07:49:11Z")\
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I would like to sort my Outlook email inbox according to the following algorithm:

- Group the emails by subject
- Then sort each subject group according to how many emails are in it.

So I’d end up with an inbox structured like:  
Re: Subject B  
Re: Subject B  
Re: Subject B  
Re: Subject B  
Re: Subject B  
Re: Subject A  
Re: Subject A  
Re: Subject A  
Re: Subject D  
Re: Subject D  
Re: Subject C

Out the box, if you sort by subject, the sorting is alphabetic, not by “number of emails in the subject” which is what I want. Is this possible?