Outlook.com – How to Remove ‘>’ Character When Replying to Emails

A similar question was posted in 2012 on the Microsoft Forums.

However, since then, this issue has been resolved. Follow these steps:

1. In Outlook.com: Go to Settings (top right) → More mail settings. Under the Managing your account section, click on Your email accounts.
   

2. Go through the process to add this new email account. To be on the safe side, you may first want to unlink the already linked account (i.e. the secondary email).

3. Now, when you try and compose an email, on the top left, you will be able to pick the From address.
   

I will answer this question assuming that you're using outlook.com.

There are two things that could be happening here:

1- Your emails are not sorted by date. To fix this, go to your inbox and sort the emails by Date as shown here.

2- Your emails may be getting grouped by conversation. When this happens, messages are not shown individually and they may not be ordered as you expect them to. To fix this, you to your email settings as shown in these screenshots.

On the next screen:

And finally:

Hope this helps :)