Conversation view settings: disable conversation view or enable item view
I like the look of the new beta, however I wish there was an option to turn off conversation view (i.e. all replies stacked in a single thread). Depending on how you use email, it can be really helpful to have all emails listed individually.

December 2017: Thanks for your patience and continued use of the Outlook.com beta! We roll out new improvements every week, and are elated to announce that a recent update opened up this feature to you! You now can turn off Conversation View and show each item in your message list as its own entry. To do so, use the Settings (gear-shaped button) menu.
We will continue to make other improvements to the Outlook.com beta experience; thanks for your support!
1156 comments
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Anonymous commented
How do I turn conversation view off? It is an extremely confusing view that makes it hard for me to find emails. I can't see this option in settings any more. I can only find settings that change how conversations look, none of which are helpful. Until that feature is available and easy to find (it used to be under Filter, which made it extremely accessible and easy to switch), I'm sticking to Beta.
If this feature has been removed I'm surprised, given it was one that was added after complaints during a previous outlook update.
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Debbie Harris commented
When people respond to messages I leave in my inbox rather then getting a new message the original message is appending with the response. I HATE this and I am missing responses! Can I turn this off? I want to see a new message alerting me that a message is being responded to This is awful.
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rick schenner commented
why isnt posible to see each mail separately..absolutley no good idea to pull everything together!!
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Kim Turner commented
I don't mind the stacking conversation view, but I am finding it very frustrating to try to print it! Is there a way to print the entire conversation that is readable?
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Fernando commented
Allow to disable the group by emails messages (also known as conversations) for all users in a tenant using powershell
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Anonymous commented
The recent upgrades are horrible. Automatically linking all the related emails is not helpful. Neither is the way they are displayed (putting the last one at the bottom vs. the top like most tools). Horrible
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Dave Beekman commented
Grouping all of these emails together is terrible. I can't organize my responses. I'm a baseball coach, and it is lumping emails in my Inbox and those I've sorted to my Coach folder together, and I can't keep track like I used to. Change this back now!
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Anonymous commented
I don't want all the emails associated from one sender all together, it was better for me to have them individually, I hate this new setup!!
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Ann Frankish commented
Just switch it off in settings.
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Pam . commented
2018 how to stop STRINGING of email. I do not want that.
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Ann Frankish commented
It's sorted! Just click on settings and opt to switch it off.
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Anonymous commented
I did not ask for this change, I do not want this change, I hate this change. Hurry up with allowing outlook user to disable this most annoying, hateful change. Please save my sanity!!!
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Anonymous commented
Conversation mode sucks.
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ky commented
can someone tell me how to get the emails back up into conversation setting?
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Esther commented
Just drop the beta thing. It is not doing any good to users!
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wlorack commented
Don't see any advantage to we, the users, hope it does something for outlook. I am emailing all my friends to look for me at a new email address.
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wlorack commented
I agree this new format for email sucks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anonymous commented
Totally agree ! And why can I only post a few e-mails per day ??
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Anonymous commented
a operacionalidade é ruim.
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Anonymous commented
I agree this is a terrible set up.