Filter and sort content on Microsoft Q&A

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09/19/2023

Filtering and sorting allows you to build a unique view of the content you're interested in, based on what you're trying to do in Q&A.

Prerequisites

You need to be signed in Q&A to use the "My content" filter.

Limitations

You can only pick one filter and one sort option.
For things you follow, we will only show you the last 400 items.

Filter in Questions and Tag details pages

The Questions and Tag details pages share the same filtering options.

On the "Filters" option on the left, select one of the following options:

Option	Explanation
All	Shows all the questions.
No answers	Shows questions without an answer.
Has answers	Shows questions with at least one answer.
No answers or comments	Shows questions without an answer or a comment.
With accepted answer	Shows questions with an accepted answer.
My content	Shows any questions you contributed to (asked, answered, commented, or edited).
Questions I follow	Shows any questions you follow.

Sort questions in Questions and Tag details pages

The Questions and Tag details pages share the same sorting options.

On the "Short by" option on the right, select one of the following options:

Option	Explanation
Updated (DEFAULT)	Shows questions ordered from newest to oldest based on their last updated time. Updated means asked, answered, commented, marked as answered, edited, voted/rated.
Created	Shows questions ordered from newest to oldest based on when a user posted the question object.
Answers	Shows questions ordered from the most to the least number of answers. If there are two or more questions with the same number of answers, then we sort by Updated date.

Filter in the Question details page

There are not filters in this page.

Sort in the Questions details page

Comments for both questions and comments are sorted from oldest to newest on creation date, to ensure you can follow the conversation chronologically.

You can short the way answers are displayed on the Question details page.

Note

Accepted answers always show right after the question, and they do not follow any sorting.

Option	Explanation
Most helpful (DEFAULT)	Answers ordered by number of helpful votes. If two or more answers have the same amount of votes, the answers are sorted form oldest to newest.
Newest	Answers ordered from newest to oldest based on their last updated time. Updated means asked, answered, commented, marked as answered, edited, voted/rated.
Oldest	Answers ordered from oldest to newest based on their last updated time. Updated means asked, answered, commented, marked as answered, edited, voted/rated.

Filter in Tags page