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That sentence seems incomplete. Care to rephrase?
You SHOULD be able to open a folder and customize the view. Even if messages are otherwise letter-for-letter identical to each other in title and content, you should be able click on the column header in that folder view and select to sort the messages in ascending or descending order. Unfortunately, you can only sort on one column header at a time. However, messages with similar Subject lines will appear together. Or you could choose the sender as your sort criterion.
Depending on the folder customized view, you might see arrival date, sender, subject line, priority, and perhaps another half dozen or so options for folder content display. On the left, it should be possible to view your list of folders in what is called "tree view" - showing parent/child relationships. If you have private folders, they are usually nearer the top of this tree view. Outlook has one "private" drop-box for mail information, usually of type .PST and usually in a child folder of the place where Office was installed. Externally declared folders used for long-term personal storage or for sharing of messages will be lower in that tree view but can be stored anywhere. (The rule is "Local first" in terms of folder display.)
Once the messages are sorted, you should be able to do this:
1. Click on the first message you wanted to move. Click only once to select it. IF you have Outlook set to Open on Single-Click, you need to reset that to only open messages on double-click. (This act to highlight is called "Selection" which is the same name as the similarly named action in other MS Office utiliities.)
2. Now still in the folder view, Shift-Click on the LAST message you want to move. This is "Group Selection."
3. Now drag-n-drop the group into the desired folder in the tree view. You do this by Click/Hold on any of the highlighted messages and move the cursor to touch the desired folder in the left-hand tree view. You might see an overlay that looks like "==> foldername" as a visual confirmation that you are moving files to the named folder. That depends on factors I can't at the moment enumerate, but it is like moving files to folders in Windows Explorer. Same exact visual paradigm.
If you need to adjust the selection behavior, that is usually found in the ribbon via the File >> Options path. It has been a while since I diddled with that part of Outlook so I can't be more specific than to say that is probably where you would look.
Keyboard shortcuts relevant to this process:
Left-Click: Selects a single message (and implicitly releases any prior selection group)
Ctrl/Left-Click: Selects a single message but does not release prior selections. (Creates a non-contiguous selection group)
Shift/Left-Click: Selects the message under the cursor and ALL MESSAGES on screen between the nearest selection, adding the messages to the group.
Ctrl/Shift/Left-Click: Allows you to add another message discontiguous with any prior selections with the assumption that you are going to add two disjoint message groups together.
It is NOT a coincidence that this is the same paradigm used by Windows Explorer to bulk-handle files in a folder.
Once you have a group highlighted and regardless of how you performed the selection, you can act on the whole group.
If this is not the source of your difficulty, please try to rephrase the question.
