You are correct. Windows 10 desktop. But, I will read your email to see if I discover something.
On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 11:25 PM Dwight Arthur <[email protected]> wrote: > You sound to me like you are using MLO on a desktop system, probably > Windows. Is that right? If not, please ignore the remainder of my message, > and write back telling me what kind or phone or computer you are on. > > Your system contains an outline (all of your tasks arranged in a > hierarchical list) and views. Each view is filtered, grouped, and sorted > according to its own specifications. I don't know if there is really a > default view, but maybe you mean "All Tasks" - this is a view that shows > all of your tasks in the same order as how they are stored in the outline. > If you are looking at the "All Tasks" view and you move a task, you are > physically moving it to a different part of the outline. If you are looking > at a sorted view and you move a a task, you are probably not changing the > outline, but rather changing the sort. > > If things changed for you recently, there are a few things that could be > the cause. > > For one thing, maybe you have not really been paying attention to views, > and have been using "All Tasks" for the last many years, and somehow now > you have gotten switched to a sorted view. > > Troubleshooting instructions: > > 1. When you look at the MLO screen do you see a sidebar on the left? If > not, hold down ALT and tap F1 and it will appear. If you don't know whether > you have the sidebar, hold down ALT and hit F1 about a dozen times. You > will see the sidebar flashing on and off. Stop hitting F1 while the sidebar > is visible. > > 2. OK, now we know that you have the sidebar visible. Look at the sidebar > title. It's at the top left, under the toolbars. On my system it's just > under a big blue button called "New Task." The title either says "Views" or > it has the name of a view, like "All Tasks". If it says "Views" then click > right on the word "Views" and it will change to a view name > > 3. OK, now we have a view name as the sidebar title. The view name you see > should be the name of the view you are using. Is it "All Tasks"? If not, > click on the view name to change it to "Views" then scan down through the > listed views until you find "All Tasks" and click on it. Your main view > should now be showing the All Tasks view and the sidebar title should say > All Tasks. > > 4. The sidebar should have eight or so sections. They probably do not all > fit on your screen at once, so use the scrollbar at the right edge of the > sidebar to scroll up and down. See if you can pick out where the sections > begin and end. The first line of each section is the section header and > starts with a three bar "move handle" and a triangle (called a twistie) > that can point down or to the right. find the section header that says > "Group & Sort". Click on the twistie about a dozen times. You will notice > that the section is expanding and collapsing. Stop clicking while it is > expanded and leave it expanded. > > 5. In the expanded Group & Sort section find a button that says "Sort..." > and click it. You will get a pop-up "Sorting" window. Your display should > now look like this: > > In the "sorting" pop up in the sample above you will see four entries that > all say "(none)". Is that what you see on your system? If any of the four > shows anything other than "(none)" you should click on it and change it > right away to "(none)". > > OK, now we know that you are looking at the All Tasks view and that it is > not sorted. I am guessing that this is the view that you are used to and > that it will behave the way you want. If this is not all true, please write > back and tell me where I lost you. > > If everything is ok now, I would encourage you to go back to the VIEWS > display and explore some of the other predefined views, and maybe > experiment a little with modifying some of the views to make them better > fit your needs. Or you could just go on using just the All Tasks view. > > Having written all of this I feel entitled to make a suggestion even > though it's really none of my business. I apologize if you don't want > suggestions, or if I have made incorrect assumptions about what you are > doing or what you need. But if you have MLO and you are just using the All > Tasks view, that would be, to me, like buying a Lamborghini and hooking up > a team of donkeys to pull it down the highway. You should look into the > powerful machine you are sitting on and you might be pleasantly surprised > by what it can do for you. > > BTW, what's a "PM" and in what subject were you a professor? > > -Dwight > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: [MLO] Problems on the Sort Order in My Task List > Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 08:09:29 -0500 > From: Jeff Tix <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > To: Dwight Arthur <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > > I would have to say the default view. I may have made a settings change > by accident. I have used the same view for years, and I cannot get back to > that being my default view. > > I do appreciate your help. I’m not a PM. Just an old college prof that > likes to stay organized. > > Is there some screen shot that might help you help me? > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 10:52 PM Dwight Arthur <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Are you always looking at the same view when this happens? If so, what is >> the name of the view? >> >> -Dwight >> On 7/22/2022 09:13, Jeff Tix wrote: >> >> Likely something I have done by accident. >> >> No matter how many times I fix the tasks in place, the outline keeps >> going back to some preset order. I must have activated something. 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