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Filter and sort content on Microsoft Q&A

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

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 tags Shows all the tags in Q&A.
Tags I follow Shows all the tags you follow.

Sorting in the Tags page

Option Explanation
Popular (DEFAULT) Shows questions per tag in descending order (tag with the most questions appear first). In case two or more tags have the same number of questions, then the order based on name (English A-Z alphabetical order).
Name English A-Z alphabetical order from the tag’s display label.