Re: Help! How do I sort by date?

[Allen Watson]

Title: Re: Help! How do I sort by date?

On or near 1/23/02 10:21 AM, Barry Wainwright at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

>>
>> How do I  "option-click" to group similar messages (for deletion,
>> transfer etc.)? This is important to me, too, since I receive
>> several hundred emails a day.
>
> You can't, although I have suggested this and it seemed to be
> received with interest

If you are talking about selecting a thread to operate on, messages with the same subject (with or without "re:" or "fw:"), in Entourage in a custom view (with multiple folders included) the quickest standard way is to sort by thread (View menu, select "Threaded"), select the thread you want (typing first few characters of the subject will jump to first matching subject), use Cmd-Right Arrow to open the thread if it isn't open, and then click first message, shift-click last message to select the whole thread. Cumbersome, but it works.

Or, if you are viewing a single folder like the In Box, use the quick filter at the upper right, set the popup to Subject, and type the first few characters or words of the subject there to filter out everything else. Then Cmd-A to select all. The following script is a quick way to copy the whole subject of a message to the clipboard, for pasting into the filter box:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    activate
    set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
    set sub to the subject of theMsg
    if (sub begins with "re:") or (sub begins with "fw:") then set sub to text 4 thru -1 of sub
    repeat while sub begins with " "
        set sub to text 2 thru -1 of sub
    end repeat
end tell
set the clipboard to sub
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