

Inbox Usability: How to make the inbox mirror Gmail as closely as possible, and other tips.There are things you need to do to make Outlook search work effectively. Search: Gmail, of course, revolutionized email searching.I'll cover what you need to do to really make it work. Conversation View: It's not enough to just enable conversation view.I have divided this post into these sections: In this post, I go through how to configure Outlook to make it mimic Gmail as closely as possible, and throw in a few tips about how to overcome some of the Outlook challenges. The good news is that although I can't get everything I want, it is possible to get Outlook into a more than acceptable working state. It's taken me many hours and countless Google searches to fine tune Outlook so I can use it productively.

In December, I started at a company that uses Exchange and Outlook 2013.

I have been using Gmail exclusively for the past 8 years.
