Using Sort to clean up your Outlook inbox

I never seem to be more surprised as I am when someone ask a question where the answer is right in front of them.  It's almost as if, while standing in the WAWA food store parking lot, someone walks up and ask, "Say, can you direct me to the local WAWA?". 

OK; enough fooling around.  If you look at the graphic in the top of this column, you see a captured screen shot from my Outlook Inbox showing mail messages under headings of |From | To | Subject | etcetera, etcetera.  What you may not be aware of is that besides being a Column Title, each panel functions as a sort button for all the columns displayed.  You can sort messages by From, To, Subject, Date or any other field by simply single mouse clicking on any one of the toolbar field headings.  Notice how the From field in the screen shot above has a  little grayed out triangle next the the word 'From'.  That triangle is indicating the direction of the alphabetical sorting.  Initially the sort direction is alphabetically (A > Z), but if I click on the column header again, the triangle will reverse direction, indicating the sort is reversed (Z > A).

The ability to sort on any field makes cleaning up my inbox very simple.  I can sort by date if I just want to kill any old mail, or by Subject to sort advertisements or eS-pa_m.
In the final example shown below, I sorted on the From column, and as you can see, it will be very easy for me to select all the email from any one person too delete or moving to other mail folders.  This is much easier than trying to find all the email from any source when the inbox is sorted by Date.  Sort of neat, isn't it; and it was right there in front of you the whole time.