Microsoft Outlook - Email - How to Sort Deleted Email Items by the Date Deleted in Outlook

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Purpose

This article explains how to sort deleted email items by the date deleted in Outlook.

Requirements

Step-by-Step Procedures

Please note that screenshots and other verbiage in these instructions may vary slightly from your current Outlook version.  Also, this method is only applied to your selected deleted Items folder. If there are other deleted items folders in your Outlook, you need to set those options with these steps one by one.

Use the following for sorting all deleted email items by date deleted in Outlook.

1. Get into the Deleted Items folder which you want to sort email by date deleted.

2. Please click View > View Settings. See screenshot:

   

3. In the Advanced View Settings dialog box, please click Columns button.

   
4. In the Show Columns dialog box, you need to:

   1. Select  Date/Time fields from the  Select available columns from drop-down list;

   2. Select  Modified in the Available columns box;

   3. Click  Add button to add this column to the  Show these columns in this order list box.

      

   4. Click  Move Up button to move the  Modified to the top of the  Show these columns in this order box.

   5. Then click  OK button.

      

5. When it returns to the  Advanced View Settings dialog box, please click Sort button.

   
6. When the Sort dialog box pops up, you need to:

   1. Select the Date/Time field from the Select available fields from drop-down list;

   2. Then select Modified from the Sort items by drop-down list.

   3. Click OK button.

      

   4. Click OKbutton in the Advanced View Settings dialog box to finish the whole settings.

7. Now your Deleted Items folder is sorted by date deleted.