Conversation view in search folders in Outlook 2013

I stumbled on a way to enable "show as conversations" on search folders, after hours of trying different workarounds.

After selecting the search folder, go to the view ribbon, select "Date (Conversations)". For some reason this enables "show as conversations" and it works like regular folders.


You can't enable Conversation View on search folders. But you can workaround this by customizing view. Click View Settings, Group By. Clear Automatically group... check and select Conversation in the Group items by part of the window.